How To Screenshot The Lock Screen And Login Screen In Windows 10
Windows 10 comes with a built-in screenshot tool. It is pretty basic and will likely keep a lot of screenshot tools like Greenshot popular for days to come. The problem with the tool, and all screenshot apps available is that they work on the desktop. You can’t use any of them to screenshot the lock screen or the login screen in Windows 10. To screenshot the lock screen and login screen you need to use the good ole Print Screen key and the Snipping tool.
Screenshot Lock Screen
Lock your system via the Win+L shortcut. When you screen is locked, tap the Print Screen key on your keyboard. Now, unlock your system and launch the Paint app. Click the ‘Paste’ button or hit the Ctrl+V combination to paste the screen capture from your clipboard.
And here’s what it looks like;
You can capture any activity and all widgets though the cursor will not be included. The Print Screen key, and its associated function has long been a part of Windows. As far back as Windows 98 you could use it to capture the screen.
Unfortunately this won’t work on the login screen. You can’t use the Print Screen button or the Windows+Print Screen combination to capture your lock screen. That doesn’t mean it isn’t possible. Again, the tool needed to screenshot the login screen in built into Windows and has been for a long time; the snipping tool.
Screenshot Login Screen
In order to use the Snipping tool to capture the login screen, you will have to tweak the Windows registry. You need to be able to use the tool from the login screen via the ease of access button.
Open the Windows registry and go to the following location;
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options
Create a new key via Edit>New>key and name it utilman.exe. Next, inside this key, create a new string value via Edit>new>String value and name it Debugger. Set its value as;
C:\Windows\System32\SnippingTool.exe
Lock your system and go past the lock screen to your login screen. Click the ease of access button and the snipping tool will launch. Use it to capture the entire screen. It won’t save the screenshot but it has been copied to your clipboard. Login to your system, open Paint, and paste it. Here’s what it looks like;
If the above doesn’t work for you, or you want to record a screencast or use your preferred screenshot tool, check out how you can run an app on the login screen in Windows 10.
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Oh, I did not even know that it is possible to take screenshot with a lock screen. Learned it from your post. Thank you so much for sharing the knowledge.
Really nice for sharing this good tutorial with us. Thanks a lot.
Nice tricks you shared with us, lots of time need to take screen shots for various reason. I really dint know how take screen shots in log out mode. I use snipping tool for taking screen shot this tiny tool works really cool. Amazing post where included nice tricks.
Thank you kindly to share this instructional exercise and through this instructional exercise screen shot can be taken effortlessly; screen shot can be utilized for various reasons for existing that is the reason it is particularly useful.
It will be run in windows 8.1.
Fatima Wahab , Thanks for your suggestions . It really helped me a lot. Thanks 🙂
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