How to take a screenshot of the screen of a Surface Pro Windows 10 without login and using a camera?

How to take a screenshot of the screen of a Surface Pro 4 (Windows 10) without login and without using a camera device? (meaning that at the login screen of the Surface Pro 4, one can take a screenshot without using a camera device, whereby a camera device include phone's camera)

This is because the Surface Pro 4 has a wireless icon on the login screen.

user275517

Posted 2016-04-28T09:37:36.400

Reputation: 517

Answers

This should do the trick

You can easily press the ‘Power’ + ‘Volume Down’ button to take screenshot on both Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book (tablet mode without keyboard).

Source: How to take a screenshot on the Microsoft Surface Pro 4 & Surface Book by hardware key combo.

I don't own a Surface 4 so can't test it myself.

Petr Vávro

Posted 2016-04-28T09:37:36.400

Reputation: 111

It does not work when you are at the login screen. – user275517 – 2016-05-06T04:05:24.003

You mean without logging in to the Windows 10 system?

I don't know how you would take a screenshot "of the Surface Pro 4", but you could always run Windows 10 in a VM. Then from the host machine, use PrtScr to take a screenshot that shows the VM's window.

Is there something different about how Windows 10's login screen looks on the Surface Pro that you want to capture?

Jamie Hanrahan

Posted 2016-04-28T09:37:36.400

Reputation: 19 777

yes, I need to include the wireless icon since the Surface Pro 4 come with the built in wireless adapter. – user275517 – 2016-04-28T09:57:38.073