Keyboard shortcut to get a screenshot of active window and save it automatically in Windows 10?

Question

Just started working on Windows 10 Home.

For a while, I could press Win + Alt + PrintScreen, and a screenshot of the active/focused window would have been grabbed automatically to a png file in this folder:

C:\Users\USERNAME\Videos\Captures

But since the Windows 10 Home Version 1809 update from some days ago, now when I do that, I get:

Gaming features not available.
Enable gaming features for this app to record gameplay

So no more of that.

Of course, I've seen stuff like https://www.cnet.com/how-to/7-ways-to-take-screenshots-in-windows-10/ - but, I just want to press a key combo, and save the active window screenshot directly somewhere in a png file. I:

• do not want to press a key combo, and then get the screenshot in clipboard (because then I have to additionally open an image program, save and paste)
• do not want to start an application, where I'd clip and then save

I want to press a key combo, and the active window screenshot should be captured as a png in some predefined directory - no clipping, no pasting, no saving with choosing of filenames.

Any ideas how I could do this?

Answer 1

To my knowledge, Windows has never had a tool that saves screenshots to disk automatically. In Windows 10 build 1809 Microsoft released an updated snipping utility called Snip and Sketch which you can configure to open automatically when you press the PrtScrn key, but this does not meet the needs you have defined.

There are multiple 3rd party applications that offer this function. It is likely you were using one of these before.

Answer 2

Since some month I use the tool "Greenshot" (https://getgreenshot.org/). I think this meet all your requirements, but you need to configure it. Hope this helps.