My print screen quite working

Windows + Print Screen

To take a screenshot on Windows 10 and automatically save the file, press the Windows key + PrtScn.

Your screen will go dim and a screenshot of your entire screen will save to the Pictures > Screenshots folder.

This method the OP described is built into Windows and was introduced in Windows 8. It still works with Windows 10.

I deleted the Pictures\Screenshots folder to see what would happen. I then pressed Windows + PrtSc. Windows responded by recreating the Pictures\Screenshots folder and saving the screenshot there.

If you press Windows + PrtSc and you can't find the Screenshots folder then you may have moved it by mistake. You need to locate it and move it back to the default location.

In the example below I moved the Screenshots folder onto the desktop. To move it back to the default location:

1. Right-click on Screenshots folder
2. Select Properties
3. Select Location tab
4. Click Restore Defaults button
5. Click OK button

1. When asked move files to new location
2. The Screenshots folder is back in the default Pictures folder.

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It is ALT + PrntScrn. Not Fn or winkey

If you have a system restore valid before you did---an in place refresh---try it.
If not,then try ----dism /online /cleaup-image /restorehealth---to fix any file corruption which might have occurred during the ---refresh---

Try3 said:

Try just re-making the folder in the normal way and seeing what happens when you try again.
- I assume that the Pictures folder itself still exists.
- In the Pictures folder, right-click over an empty area then select New, Folder and rename it Screenshots

If it still does not work then look in the Registry Key
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
and report back -
1 Does it have an entry
{B7BEDE81-DF94-4682-A7D8-57A52620B86F}
and, if the entry does exist,
2 What path is given in it.


Denis

Hi Denis
I found the entry on registry and the path of the folder . the screenshots folder moved to an external drive. I must have moved it by accident.
I tried to move it back but now any screenshot I take goes into Picture file . I created a screenshot folder but it remains empty.
Thanks to you I found it and now I know where to look
thank you again

Try3 said:

You should be able to see in that Registry entry that it is pointing to the Pictures folder and you can change that entry to point it to your desired Screenshots folder instead.
- Double-click on {B7BEDE81-DF94-4682-A7D8-57A52620B86F} and it will open a small dialog where you can paste in the desired path to your new Screenshots folder
- Always create the folder first. The Registry entry sulks if its folder path does not exist.
- I always paste the path from File explorer to guard against putting typos in the Registry entry.
- Whilst you have already confirmed that your Pictures folder is where you want it, I'd like to add one warning for future consideration.

- Whenever you change the Registry entry for Screenshots, always check that the My pictures entry [further down in the same Registry key] is what you want and also that its folder path exists.
- Another member discovered an undocumented bug recently. It turns out that the Screenshots facility will not work correctly if the Pictures folder is unavailable [If, for example, it is on a removeable drive that is currently disconnected].
- This warning [this bug] applies even if the Screenshots folder is nowhere near the Pictures folder. Even if you relocated your Screenshots folder to, for example, your Desktop, you would still have to check your Pictures folder path.

Denis

Thank you again
I went to registry and did as you say . It works like before, perfect