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Answer» <html><body><p>Hi all...<br/><br/>I'm new here and not sure if I'm posting this in the right place, but I really need help with sorting this out because its driving me crazy!!<br/><br/>I am using Windows 8 and every time I take a Screenshot, I cannot find where it was saved.<br/><br/>Screenshots are supposed to be saved in a 'Screenshots' folder in pictures, for some reason I was missing that file, so I opened a new folder and named it Screenshots, but still, they are not saving there.<br/><br/>I have tried restore points to no avail, how do I restore screenshots saving back to the where they were originally supposed to be saved to, without putting my pc back to factory settings??<br/><br/>All help appreciated in advance...once again, apologies if this is in the wrong section.<br/><br/>Thanks...<br/><br/>Steve.when you take the next screen shot save it with a name you'll remember then do a search for that file.Thanks Allan...<br/><br/>The problem is in Windows 8, it doesn't ask you to name a screenshot or even where to save it to, it is an automatic process.<br/><br/>When you press the Window key and Print Screen together, the screen just dims and brightens and that's it, the screenshot is taken and supposed to be saved in the screenshot file in pictures automatically.<br/><br/>What I really need to know in the simplest dumb-*censored* way, is how to change whatever has altered, to ensure they get automatically saved in the screenshots folder where they should be.<br/><br/>Thanks again though for your input.<br/><br/>Steve.I was not aware of this feature - using Windows key + Prt Sc - but I just tried it and it worked just as you described. A folder named Screenshots is now in My Pictures and my first capture using this technique is there. Unfortunately, I do not know why it is not working for you. <br/><br/>Are you familiar with other ways of doing a screen capture? Pressing the prt sc key will capture the whole screen and place it in the clipboard. Then, you need to paste it into Paint or some other program that accepts image files and save it with a filename. Pressing Alt/prt sc captures only the active window. And, Windows 7 and 8 have the Snipping Tool which is quite handy for doing screen captures. Agree with Soybean...the Tool is in Programs/Accessories.Thank-you very much for your input guys.<br/><br/>Despite Microsoft's (MS) claim about ease of use, I seem to find Windows 8 rather difficult to navigate, as I did Vista.<br/><br/>I have as yet been unable to find anyway to contact MS to ask them about my problem and if they have a solution.<br/><br/>However, I tried the snipping tool and that works sufficiently for now...I will not give up on MS however, who I <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/think-661001" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about THINK">THINK</a> have intentionally made it difficult to ask for help.<br/><br/>Thanks again for your input guys....much appreciated.<br/><br/>Steve. Hi guys...<br/><br/>Finally perseverance and dogged determination pays off and I have found the solution to my screenshots problem, the issue was a change in the registry and the wrong value number.<br/><br/>If you encounter the same problem, click the link below and follow the instructions, I guarantee it does work:<br/><br/><a href="http://www.thewindowsclub.com/windows-8-not-saving-captured-screenshots">http://www.thewindowsclub.com/windows-8-not-saving-captured-screenshots</a><br/><br/>stevo77How did the Registry get changed ? ?Quote from: stevo77 on March 11, 2014, 08:06:43 PM</p><blockquote>Finally perseverance and dogged determination pays off and I have found the solution to my screenshots problem, the issue was a change in the registry and the wrong value number.<br/><br/>If you encounter the same problem, click the link below and follow the instructions, I guarantee it does work:<br/><br/><a href="http://www.thewindowsclub.com/windows-8-not-saving-captured-screenshots">http://www.thewindowsclub.com/windows-8-not-saving-captured-screenshots</a><br/></blockquote>Glad you found the solution. But, honestly, I don't see much value in the feature. You can only use the technique for a full screen capture and it does not allow you to save the image under a unique name when you capture the image. The images captured this way are simply named Screenshot (1), Screenshot (<a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/2-236987" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about 2">2</a>), and so forth. So, if want to give the image files a name that has meaning, you need to change the name after the image has been captured to the Screenshots folder. And, if you do that, you've really saved no time using this screen capture <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/method-239379" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about METHOD">METHOD</a>, as opposed to using the more flexible Snipping Tool. Quote from: soybean on March 12, 2014, 08:14:47 AM<blockquote>Glad you found the solution. But, honestly, I don't see much value in the feature. You can only use the technique for a full screen capture and it does not allow you to save the image under a unique name when you capture the image. The images captured this way are simply named Screenshot (1), Screenshot (2), and so forth. So, if want to give the image files a name that has meaning, you need to change the name after the image has been captured to the Screenshots folder. And, if you do that, you've really saved no time using this screen capture method, as opposed to using the more flexible Snipping Tool.<br/></blockquote><br/>Contrariwise, I find this feature (which I actually did not know existed until this thread) to be far better than the alternatives. In general, I find the Snipping tool to be the worst alternative of the three. Print-Screen+Paint/Photoshop/Image Program, where you press print screen, which puts the screen image on the clipboard and then paste and save that image in an image editor. The main problem with this approach is that it's a pain to use this for screenshotting a series of steps, either for showing reproduction steps of a problem or for documenting a series of steps. It has a huge advantage over the snipping tool, since it can capture menus and other popups that would close if any other window get's the focus. I thought the Snipping Tool would be a useful replacement for that method when Win7 was released but after using it once or twice I've never used it again. It basically only removes the paste step, and you still need to save the snipped image, which includes giving it a name. It's also not possible to use the Snipping tool to capture Menus, drop-downs, or similar pop-ups, which IMO Is a pretty <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/serious-3021168" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SERIOUS">SERIOUS</a> limitation.<br/><br/>3. The new Windows Key+Print Screen<br/><br/>IMO this is the best alternative, at least for me. The main thing I do for screenshots is for documenting a series of dialogs, usually when following a set of steps. And the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/last-2782539" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about LAST">LAST</a> thing I want to do is screw around coming up with a name for them in the middle of doing so. I find that I have to constantly remember what exactly I was doing and what the next step was. With the new combo we finally get the functionality that Mac OS classic had in 1984 with Command+P, and IMO it's taken too damned long for Microsoft to come up with a non-retarded way of creating screenshots that doesn't remove your attention from what you are doing and require you to actually do extra work to name the screenshot, instead saving it as an image that you can deal with later the process you are documenting. Using thumbnails in the screenshots folder or sorting by date after taking a series of screenshots makes finding the series just created trivial, then I can move them to a more appropriate folder for further handling or zipping/attaching etc. There is also the case where I am testing a piece of software and want to take a quick capture of some error dialogs or problems I've found and having to either print-screen, paste, and save as for every screenshot or having to snip and choose a filename is an absolute pain in the *censored*. I Much prefer to be able to capture as many screenshots documenting something as possible, then I can go through the captured images to decide which ones are the most useful to document the issue- same story when trying to document a problem or series of proper steps. The older method makes it far more likely for me to simply document it using text which usually results in some back and forth and I have to take a screenshot anyway.<br/><br/>Even in the general case, When taking screenshots I Much prefer the method of least intrusion such that it simply saves the screenshot and I can deal with it later, since that encourages taking more screenshots rather than less, because I don't have to break from my current process simply to give the new file a name.<br/><br/>Anyway, I did some experiments with this new feature. When I deleted the registry key in question, it recreated it when I took another screenshot and the screenshot was saved properly. <br/><br/>I then edited it to a large value. (1280). When I took a screenshot the new image appeared with the new number and the registry value was incremented.<br/><br/>So I changed the value to a low value (I had several screenshots at this point, 1,2,3,4, and 1280) I changed it to 2. the new screenshot was saved as 5 after I set the index to 2.<br/><br/>I actually wasn't able to break it, for whatever reason. I also do not have the {B7BEDE81-DF94-4682-A7D8-57A52620B86F} key in my User Shell Folders at all.<br/>The only difference I Can imagine is that I am using Windows 8.1, not Windows 8. <br/><br/>I launched my Windows 8 VM. Looking in the registry, I Found the ScreenshotIndex key missing. Therefore, according to the article, my screenshotting feature would be broken. However, when I pressed Windows Key+Print Screen, the registry key appeared and a screenshot was saved properly. A screenshots folder was created in my Pictures folder which contained the screenshot. I changed the registry key to 512 and took a screenshot, and the new file was saved to the right location with (512). I changed it to 1 again, and when I took a new screenie it saved as (3) and the registry value was incremented to 4.<br/><br/>Looking in the User Shell Folders key and there is no key that the article mentions.<br/><br/>Therefore it would seem that a lot of what the article states is actually wrong. I would guess that adding the user shell folder key creates a Screenshots 'known folder' which overrides the default location that would be in My Pictures. This would fix the problem if there is an issue saving to My Pictures or if the My Pictures setting is not valid. (confirmed by changing My Pictures User Shell Folder to gibberish- screenshots no longer saved but the screen dimmed- when I added the specified key it saved again to the folder I specified.).<br/><br/>Looking further into it, it looks like User Shell Folders supports "Known Folders". In this case, these are documented <a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd378457%28v=vs.85%29.aspx">here</a>. The guid used in the article is for the screenshots Known folder. If not present/overridden by adding an item here than the default setting is "%USERPROFILE%\Pictures\Screenshots". Note that this folder might not correspond to the My Pictures folder if the My Pictures folder has been set to another folder, which means it won't appear in the "My Pictures" folder in ones documents. (eg. if I change my Pictures folder to be in say D:\Pictures than saving screenshots will still put them in %USERPROFILE%\Pictures\Screenshots and not in D:\Pictures\Screenshots even though opening the "My Pictures" folder in Explorer will open D:\Pictures.<br/><br/></body></html>


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