Take Screenshot of Desktop or Any Error

How to take screenshot of desktop or desktop error! This tutorial guide will allow you to take such screenshot without any third party program.

This tutorial 'Take Screenshot of Desktop' is well known because lots of people know about this and many others are still unknown about this tutorial or method. Basically, people want to share a few of their exact problems or errors with their Web assistants or PC Administrators who guide them to fix their issues but it’s hard to explain every error or troubleshoot to them so they want to take pictures of that error and will share it. I am not here telling you to go buy a high-resolution camera or a high-resolution supported Mobile/Phone. Your Operation System has the facility to take Screenshots or snapshots of your Desktop or anywhere in your OS. The purpose of sharing this Tutorial is to provide awareness to those people who are still unaware of this trick or procedure.

How to Take Screenshot of Desktop Error or Entire Desktop?

Many people face problems while installation of programs or some other apps and they ask me on Facebook to resolve the issue but they can’t tell their exact problem so I asked them to provide me with a snapshot of the error and then they hesitate and asked “How to do this”, due to which I keep this thing on my mind and made this post for those.

“So Just follow the given Steps mentioned below and be aware of this trick to Take Screenshot of Desktop”

Step 1:

So here is a sample of the error that I’m receiving and Want to make it an image/photo to share with someone.

Step 2:

Just click the “Print Screen” button on your PC Keyboard. Laptop users may have the “PrtSc” or “PrtScn” button on their Keypad. (Remember I used “On-Screen Keyboard” for guiding, you don’t need to open it.)

Step 3:

Open “Paint” Program/Application, which is Window's own program. Windows XP/Vista/7 users locate it to “Start Menu>All Programs>Accessories” and Windows 8 users follow the below image by clicking “Start” and Searching “Paint” in Apps Search. (Advanced Users can use “Photoshop” instead of “Paint”.)

Step 4:

In Paint Application/Program, just use the “Ctrl + V” keys from the keyboard or click on “Paste” to insert your snapshot inside Paint.

Step 5:

If so image is Pasted successfully, you may save your image but if you want to Crop it then move to the next steps.

Step 6:

So Cropping only error, Click on “Select” tool from top as shown below image.

Step 7:

Select the area in which you want to save it as an image by “Holding Left Mouse Click”.

Step 8:

Time to click on the “Crop” tool button next to the “Select” tool.

Step 9:

Finally, press the “Ctrl + S” keys from the keyboard to save it as an image to anywhere in your System.

Step 10:

Open this image to Windows Photo Viewer or any associated program to View it.

Congratulations! You have successfully learned how to Take Screenshot of Desktop and Desktop Error without need of third party application.

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