Screenshots and Screen Recordings

Windows 11 includes various ways to capture, save, edit, and share screenshots--still images that represent the contents of your PC's display--and screen recordings, video representations of what's happening on-screen.
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Windows 11 supports classic keyboard shortcuts for capturing screenshots, some dating back many decades, though most of them work a bit differently now. They are:

Print screen. When you tap this key, the Snipping Tool appears so you can capture a screenshot or screen recording.

Windows key + Print screen. This keyboard shortcut works as before: It captures a screenshot of the entire screen, saves it as a PNG file in your Screenshots folder, and copies the image to the Clipboard.
Alt + Print screen. This keyboard shortcut captures a screenshot of the active window and copies the image to the Clipboard.

Tip: If you sign in to Windows 11 with a Microsoft account, a OneDrive window appears the first time you type either of the latter two shortcuts and asks if you would like to store them in Microsoft's cloud storage service as well as locally on this PC. You can choose between "Save to OneDrive," "Ask me later," and "No thanks" options.
Though they are designed to capture game screenshots and screen recordings, there are also two Game Bar keyboard shortcuts that work outside of games: Windows key + Alt + Print Screen will capture a screenshot of the active window and Windows key + Alt + R will start a screen recording. In both cases, the result is saved to the Captures folder in your Videos folder.
Customize
Microsoft configures the Snipping Tool in-box app to run when you press the Print screen key, but you can change this to work as it did in the past and simply capture a screenshot of the entire screen and copy the image to the Clipboard.

To do so, open the Settings app, navigate to Bluetooth & devices > Keyboard and configure the option "Use the Print screen key to open screen capture" to "Off."
Snipping Tool
Snipping Tool is a modern app that should meet most users' screenshot and screen recording needs.
Tip: Unfortunately, Snipping Tool uses its own language for these tasks: It refers to screenshots as "static image snips" and screen recording as "video snips."
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Snipping Tool offers two different user interfaces, depending on how you start the app:

Run Snipping Tool normally. When you launch Snipping Tool from Start or Windows Search, the app appears as a small floating window with a toolbar that provides several commands related to screenshots and screen recordings.

Tap the Print screen key. Here, the screen dims and Snipping Tool appears at the top displaying only its toolbar and various options.

Snipping Tool supports the following actions via its toolbar buttons:

New screenshot/recording. Available only in the normal app window, the "+ New" button is used to start capturing a new screenshot or screen recording, depending on which capture mode the...