Sometimes it becomes necessary to share with your friends or colleagues a snapshot of your computer’s desktop or a successful shot from a computer game in which you kill the most difficult boss or take first place in the list of achievements. Different games and applications save screenshots in various places, and their search on the computer can take you a long time. We will try to shed light on the question - where are the screenshots stored?
Saving screenshots of Windows 7
To begin with, we’ll not talk about applications and games, but we will analyze the issue using the example of working in the Windows 7 operating system. In order to find out where screenshots of Windows 7 are stored, you don’t need any special knowledge. The answer is simple - they are not stored anywhere. The screenshot you made is placed on the
clipboard and waits for the moment until you paste it into any
image editor. Therefore, to save a screenshot, open the Paint editor, which is part of all Windows OS, right-click in any area of ​​the editor, then click on the "Insert" menu item or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + v instead. The screenshot is placed in the editor, after which it can be edited, corrected or added text, and then saved to any place on your computer’s hard drive. Done!
Where are Steam screenshots stored?
The Steam service has long gained popularity among players, and most of them have completely switched to using it only. If you want to find out where screenshots of a game from the Steam service are stored, you need to do the following operations. Launch Steam so that its icon is visible in the system tray, in the lower right corner of the screen next to the clock. Right-click on it once, select the “Screenshots” menu item, and then the game whose screenshots you need. By clicking on the “Show on disk” line, a Windows Explorer window will open and you will see a folder with screenshots of the desired game.
Where are screenshots of other games stored?
An article would be incomplete without coverage of this moment. If you do not use the Steam service, and you need to find out where screenshots from your games and applications are stored, we will give a couple of recommendations for finding them. First, check the installation folder of the game. Right-click on the application’s shortcut and in the drop-down menu find the “File Location” item. Windows Explorer will open the game directory for you.
If there are no screenshots in this folder or its subfolders, there is another option. Some new games create their folders in the user's personal storage, in the same place as the system folders “Images”, “Music”, “Documents” and others. It is the Documents folder that we need. An approximate path to it usually looks like this: C: \ Users \ username \ Documents. Check this folder for a subdirectory called “My Games”, inside which usually there are folders with the names of installed games, their saving and screenshots.
What other programs allow you to take screenshots?
There are many other software solutions with which players take screenshots and even capture gameplay videos. One of the most famous programs for this purpose is Fraps. It has a simple interface and a minimum number of settings, which makes it easy for any user to manage it. Considering this program from the side of our question, we note that the user selects the folder for saving screenshots himself, so that you will never lose the frame made in the game!
We hope that to the question of many players about where screenshots are stored, you will find the answers in this article. Good luck to you and great achievements! In the world of modern high-quality games in terms of graphics, it is difficult to do without creating screenshots, because looking through them you can always recall the sensations that the gameplay gives you.