Microsoft’s OneDrive cloud storage is an integral a part of Windows. Everyone who logs into the working programs with a Microsoft account mechanically receives 5GB of free storage. Among different issues, you should utilize this to mechanically save screenshots within the native sync folder of OneDrive in order that they’re synchronized with the cloud service, backing up the photographs effortlessly.

To achieve this, click on on the OneDrive icon within the nook of the Windows taskbar, after which on the cogwheel within the top-right nook. Click on “Settings”, be sure you are within the “Synchronize and backup” tab, and set the change subsequent to “Save screenshots I capture to OneDrive” to “On”.

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As quickly as you’re taking a screenshot utilizing the Alt-Print Screen or Windows-Print Screen key combos, you’ll see a notification that the picture has been saved to OneDrive. Windows first transfers the screenshot to the clipboard after which saves it in PNG format with the present date because the file title within the OneDrive folder “PicturesScreenshots”. If you make a number of screenshots on someday, they’re numbered utilizing the file names.

Please word: Automatic saving is just triggered by the keyboard shortcuts. Screenshots that you simply take utilizing the print display key alone find yourself within the clipboard, however should not saved as a file to OneDrive.