In Windows 8, nothing happens when I press the Print Screen button â€" no Screenshots folder shows up in the Pictures library. Can you help
Windows 8 offers a few ways to save an image of what is currently on your screen. To automatically take a picture of the screen and save it as a file, press both the Windows key and the Print Screen (PrtScn) key. After pressing the keys (or pressing the Windows logo and volume down buttons on a touch-screen device), the screen should dim momentarily to indicate the shot was taken. The resulting file appears in the Screenshots folder inside the Pictures library folder.
To capture a shot of the screen without saving it as a file to your drive, press just the Print Screen button. From here, you can open an image-editing program like Paint or a word-processing application, and paste the captured image into a new file. Pressing the Alt key and the Print Screen key takes a shot of the active window on the sreen.
If you are using those keys without success, try pressing the computer’s Function (Fn) key as well and see if the shot appears in the folder. Because they generally have room for fewer keys, laptops in particular may remap certain key functions and require a different shortcut combination than the default set used by Windows 8. Check your computer’s manual to see if the screen-shot function has been moved to different keys.
Microsoft has more information about taking screen shots on its site. As with some previous versions of Windows, the Snipping Tool is also available to capture screen shots; instructions for using it in Windows 8 are here.
