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Once you are done with those, come back here to continue. To get started go ahead and turn off those two things noted above related to the Print Screen shortcut and OneDrive’s automatic saving of screenshots.

Create unique names for all screenshots to differentiate them between devices and a folder storage structure that will organize ShareX screenshots by Month and Year.

Automatically save those three types of screen captures to both a ShareX Screenshots directory and the default Picture > Screenshots directory that OneDrive usually uses for storage.

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Capture screen regions, active windows, and full desktop screenshots.So for clarity, I plan to use ShareX as follows:

Note: Don’t worry about turning off the automatic saving of screenshots to OneDrive as ShareX is going to pick up that task for you instead. Those two steps should clear the keyboard shortcuts and allow new hot keys to be used with ShareX.

Turn off OneDrive > Settings > Auto Save > Screenshots > Automatically save screenshots I capture to OneDrive as that also creates a conflict with the hot key settings in ShareX for capturing screenshots.

The keyboard shortcut will be used in ShareX and otherwise would cause a conflict.

Toggle off the Windows Settings > Ease of Access > Print Screen shortcut > Use the PrtScn button to open screen snipping which works with the new Snip & Sketch tool.

Alongside of those uploads, I am also creating a new screenshots directory to take advantage of ShareX’s ability to create custom named folders which will help with organizing my Screenshot collection.Ī couple of things you must be willing to do if you want to fully try out ShareX on your own system: In addition, I will let ShareX take over making sure any screenshots I take using it are also deposited in my main Pictures > Screenshots directory which is synced with OneDrive. This time around, I am taking a different approach and just using ShareX to add the functionality I would like to see in Snip & Sketch – the automatic saving of snippets which I grab from the screen. I think that is part of the reason why I only briefly tried ShareX out in the past. Don’t get me wrong, ShareX has so many options and configurations that it is mind boggling and at times overwhelming.

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That is how I am putting ShareX, an open source screen capture utility which works with Windows 7, 8.1, and 10 through its paces on my Windows 10 systems.

Although you can manually save them using either of the current utilities, it adds a few extra steps to the process. If you capture just the active window or a region of your screen, then those snippets must be saved manually or they are lost from your clipboard when you save the next snippet. These utilities do just fine and the Snip & Sketch app is well integrated into Windows 10’s sharing feature of the OS and of course, pressing the Windows Key + Print Screen buttons gets you a full screenshot of your desktop saved to your Pictures > Screenshots directory.

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It is still in the operating system after the update however, being labelled deprecated means it could be removed in a future update to Windows 10. Windows 10 has some very decent screen capture capabilities that are provided by the popular Snipping Tool and now the Snip & Sketch app.īoth of these have their pros and cons and currently Snip & Sketch is on track to replace Snipping Tool as the latter has been deprecated in the October 2018 feature update for Windows 10. Hero image copyrighted and courtesy of ShareX.

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