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Various tips sites indicate that screenshots taken by pressing, for example, WIN-SHIFT-S or PrintScreen are supposed to show up in a Screenshots subdirectory of the Pictures directory in my home folder. However, on my quite new installation of Windows 10, they don't get saved there and are just kept in the clipboard, so I have to paste them into e.g. Paint in order to save them somewhere.

Is there a way to tell Windows to automatically save them? I'm used to MacOS behaviour where it saves screenshots using names containing timestamps.

intuited
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  • For Windows 10 free download and install gadwin screen capture utility. You can use the `prt sc` key and save to any folder you want. Although it is customizable I do not like the way they name files. – somebadhat May 28 '20 at 23:24
  • "Is there a way to tell Windows to automatically save them? " No – Moab May 29 '20 at 01:50
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    Similar question>>>>https://superuser.com/questions/1319897/automatically-save-a-snipped-screenshot-to-disk?rq=1 – Moab May 29 '20 at 01:50
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    Does this answer your question? [Automatically save a snipped screenshot to disk](https://superuser.com/questions/1319897/automatically-save-a-snipped-screenshot-to-disk) – Swisstone May 29 '20 at 18:44
  • Yeah, that's the same question, guessed I missed it in my search. Cheers! – intuited Jun 01 '20 at 11:49
  • That does happen to answer my question, even though the question is not actually about how to save screenshots but about how to take screenshots of a section of the screen. – intuited Jun 01 '20 at 12:57

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