screenshot-laptop

About this site

One narrow subject, covered properly: how to take a screenshot on a laptop, on every system and keyboard layout in common use.

Why a whole site about this#

Because the existing answers are bad in a specific way. Search for how to screenshot on a laptop and you get pages that open with three paragraphs about how useful screenshots are, then give you a Windows shortcut that doesn't work on your keyboard, then stop.

The actual problem is usually narrower and more annoying: your Print Screen key is on the Fn layer, or the capture went to your clipboard rather than a folder, or an overlay app took the key. Those are the pages worth writing.

How pages here are structured#

The key combination is the first thing on the page. Every page opens with the answer in a box, before any explanation. If that's all you needed, you can leave — that's a successful visit.

Explanation comes after, for the people who need it. Why the key doesn't respond, what the Fn layer is, where the file went.

Nothing is padded to hit a word count. Some pages here are short because the answer is short.

What we don't do#

Corrections#

Keyboard layouts change, vendors rename their settings, and operating systems ship updates that alter default behaviour. If something here is wrong or out of date on your machine, tell us — include the model and the OS version and it'll be checked and fixed.

More on the testing process: how we test.

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