Making Screenshots under Windows

To copy a screenshot of the active window into the clipboard: Alt + PrntScrn (Alt + Druck on a German keyboard) Note that the clipboard will be overwritten, so if you want to take two screenshots, you have to paste the first screenshot before taking the second one.

To copy the whole screen into the clipboard: PrntScrn (Druck on a German keyboard)

To make a screenshot with customized clipping, press Winkey + Shift + S.

To save a screenshot of the active window: Alt+ Winkey + PrntScrn (Alt + WinKey + Druck on a German keyboard) The image will be saved in PNG format into the folder Videos\Captures (Videos\Aufzeichnungen on a German Windows)

To save a screenshot of the whole screen: Winkey + PrntScrn (WinKey + Druck on a German keyboard) The image will be saved in PNG format into the folder Pictures\Screenshots (Bilder\Bildschirmfotos on a German Windows)

While it is crazy that two different folders are used for saving the images, other than that the shortkeys are a convenient method to quickly obtain and save screenshots.