How do you take a picture of the screen on a Windows 8 computer without having to buy special software
As with earlier versions of Windows, you can still capture an image of your desktop by pressing the PrintScreen (PrtScr) key and then pasting the captured image into the system’s Paint program. (Holding down the Alt key while pressing print Screen captures just the active window, which can then be pasted into Paint and saved as an image file.)
In Windows 8, you can capture an image of the desktop by pressing the Windows and Print Screen keys at the same time. The screen briefly dims when you press the keys. The resulting image automatically lands in the computer’s Pictures folder, inside a sub-folder there called Screenshots.
The Snipping Tool, available in previous versions of Windows, is also available for taking screenshots in Windows 8. You can find instructions for using it here.
