How to save a screen on a laptop in various ways?

Though not often, every user has such a question: "How can I save the screen on a laptop the best?" There may be different solutions that will work well for one situation, and in another case they will not be entirely rational to use. Among the options are the following:

• With the use of a camera.
• Using the built-in tools of the operating system.
• With the help of specialized software.

They will be considered in this article.

Simple and reliable

Before the end of the operating system download, its software does not work. Therefore, if you want to make a screenshot of the boot screen or BIOS, you can not do without external devices. For these purposes, an excellent camera, smartphone or video camera. The procedure for obtaining this snapshot is as follows:

• Immediately alert the device for shooting.
• We start the laptop by clicking the "Power" button.
• We take the cooked device and take a picture at the right time.

Simple and reliable. But the quality of the picture in any case will leave much to be desired. But it is in the process of booting the operating system that the task of taking a screen on a laptop can not be solved in another way.

We use built-in tools

After the end of the operating system loading, it is much easier to answer the question of how to screen the screen on a laptop. There is a fairly wide range of software tools that solve this problem without problems. Conditionally they can be divided into built-in and specialized. The first of them are part of the operating system and they can be immediately applied after the installation of the "Windows". But the second features increased functionality and are better suited for those cases when you need to quickly make several screenshots at once. In older versions of the operating system from Microsoft, this issue was resolved as follows:

• When there was a picture on the screen that needed to be photographed, the "Print Screen" key was pressed. The resulting image was placed on the clipboard.
• Next I had to run the graphic editor "Paint".
• After the download was finished, the picture was pasted from the clipboard. This could be done in two ways: using the hot key combination "Ctrl" and "V" or through the "Edit" menu and the "Paste" item.
• Then the resulting image could be edited and saved.

This approach is justified in cases where you need up to 5 pictures. If you want to get more than 5 pictures, then it's better to use specialized software, which is aimed specifically at solving such problems.

Another solution on the basis of "Windows 7"

Another option for solving the problem - how to photograph the laptop monitor screen - in the operating system "Windows 7" or later is the "Scissors" program. To run it, go to the following address: "Start \ Program \ Standard \ Scissors". A special window will open. In it, you need to click on the "New" button with the left button of the button. After that, the manipulator pointer turns into a cross. With it, you can select the desired part of the screen from which you want to get the image. Once the area is selected, the second window will open. In it you can see the end result. If everything suits, then save the screenshot. If necessary, repeat this procedure. It can then be edited in the same "Paint". As in the previous case, "Scissors" will perfectly work for a small number of images. But with a serial shooting, their use will not be entirely justified.

Specialized Software

Another way to solve the problem, how to photograph the screen of an HP laptop or any other manufacturer, is the use of specialized programs that allow you to take serial shots. One of the best among them is the "Hot Key Screenshot". The order of its use is as follows. Download on the Internet, its installer. Install it on your computer. Then start and assign a "hot" key. When you press it, the screen image will be saved to the hard disk in a special folder. Then run the program, from which we will receive pictures. Once the desired image on the screen appeared, press the "hot" key, and everything - the new slide was added. This is another way to make a screen on your laptop.

Summary

Within the framework of this material, it has been described how to photograph the laptop screen in various ways. The first method, which is based on the use of a camera (or any other similar device), can only be used during the installation or loading of the operating system. The picture quality in this case is not very good, so it can only be used in these cases. After downloading "Windows" and the number of screenshots to 5, it's more rational to use either "Scissors" or "Print Screen" and "Paint". But if you need a serial shooting, the best way is to use specialized software.