Pressing PRINT SCREEN captures an image of your entire screen and copies it to the Clipboard in your computer's memory. You can then paste (CTRL+V) the image into a document, email message, or other file.

To change your capture settings, press the Start button , and then select Settings > Gaming > Captures. The following sections cover the capture settings you can adjust.

Learn how to improve the clarity of text and images displayed on your screen by changing the screen resolution, scale and layout of your monitor.

Find out what capabilities that your PC’s video card needs, for capturing game clips and screenshots on Windows PC.

On the device you’re projecting from, go to the screen mirroring settings (sometimes called cast settings), and select your PC to connect to it. If you’re projecting from a PC, you can also select Windows logo key + K and select the PC you’d like to connect to.

To take a screenshot to share your in-game victories, follow the step-by-step instructions below for Windows PCs & Microsoft Surfaces (Tablets): Press the Print Screen (may look like PrtSc, Print Scrn, etc.) button on your keyboard. Press the Windows Key and type in Paint. Click on Paint.

Tap Screen Record, then tap Start to begin recording. When you're done and want to stop recording, swipe down from the top of the screen, and then tap the Screen Recorder notification.

Learn how to use Snipping Tool to capture a screenshot, or snip, of any object on your screen, and then annotate, save, or share the image.

To determine if the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter is being used on a Windows device, select one of the following two methods: When the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter driver is being used by a display adapter, Microsoft recommends updating it to instead use the manufacture's driver.

Clip resolution is fixed at 4K HDR for certain games on Xbox—even if you’ve selected a lower default resolution. At 4K HDR, game clips can be up to 30 seconds when capturing to your console’s internal storage.