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One of these days, you'll be using an app on your Windows 11 PC and an error will occur. To find a solution, it's often helpful to take a screen shot of what you see on the screen and share it with others. In Windows 11, you can do so in many ways. You could press the Print Screen key on your keyboard, but that method stores your screen shot in the clipboard, and you must then paste the shot in an image-editing app such as Paint.

A much better way to take a quick screen shot of the entire screen is to press Windows+Print Screen or Fn+Windows+Print Screen. Windows 11 saves the resulting image as a file in the Screen shots folder, which is inside your Pictures folder.

One cool aspect of Windows 11 is that Microsoft has decided to create a new and much improved Snipping Tool app. It's a mix of the old version in Windows 7 and the Snip & Sketch app in Windows 10, which many people ignored. With the snipping tool, you can capture a full-screen screen shot, a rectangular screen shot, a free-form screen shot (draw any shape you want on the screen), or the window of a specific app. The snipping tool calls those screen shots snips.

Here’s how to use the snipping tool in Windows 11 to take a screen shot of the entire screen:

1 Press Windows+Shift+S.You see a menu at the top of the screen, with several screen shot-taking icons, as shown in Figure 1-9.FIGURE 1-9: The screen shot-taking options offered by the snipping tool.

2 Click or tap the fourth icon, which is full-screen snip.A notification on the right side of the screen tells you that a snip was saved to the clipboard.

3 Click or tap the Snipping Tool notification.The Snipping Tool app opens (as shown in Figure 1-10), displaying the screen shot you just took. The app gives you access to plenty of image-editing tools, such as pens, highlighters, and erasers.FIGURE 1-10: Use the snipping tool to edit your screen shots.

4 Click or tap the save icon (disk) at the top right of Snipping Tool.The Save As dialog is shown, where you can choose the folder where the screen shot is saved. By default, screen shots are named using the date and time when they were taken. You can type a new name in the File Name field.

5 Click or tap the Save button.Your screen shot is saved in the Pictures folder.

6 In the Snipping Tool window, click or tap X to close the app.