
Your Windows PC comes with the Microsoft Paint app and Microsoft Paint is an image editing app.Ĭlick the Windows key, and search for “paint.” The Paint app will come up, and you can then proceed to open the app and paste the screenshot. If you don’t know what an image editing app is, don’t worry. To view the screenshot that your PC takes when you press the print screen button, you can open any image editing app on your PC and then paste the picture there.

Pasting and saving screenshots taken using the print screen key

This is the same functionality that you have used with copy/paste before, except it also applies to images. Simply pressing the print screen (PrtSc) key might not seem to do anything, but it actually takes that picture of the screen and saves it into the system’s clipboard. All you need to do is press that button, seriously.īut there’s a catch.

The most popular way of taking screenshots on a Windows PC is by simply pressing the print screen (PrtSc) key.
