How to change Print Screen Screenshots folder location in Windows 11/10

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Windows 11/x/viii/7, by default, saves screenshots to the Pictures folder. But if you wish, yous can alter the default save folder location for captured Print Screen image files to whatsoever other location, by post-obit this tutorial. There are several ways you tin accept a desktop screenshot on Windows, including using the built-in Snipping Tool, PrtScr keyboard button, or other third-party Screen capture freeware.

Change Print Screen Screenshots folder location

To change the folder where the Windows operating system saves its screenshots, y'all will take to exercise the following. Navigate to the following location, where you will see a Screenshots binder:

C:\Users\<username>\Pictures

If yous do non see the Screenshots folder, you need to hit Win+PrtScr to take a screenshot showtime. This screenshot volition then be saved in the Screenshots folder, which will become created by Windows to save your screenshots.

Right-click on the Screenshots folder and select Properties.

Under the Location tab, you will run across the target or the folder path where screenshots are saved past default. You tin can change where files and folders are saved to some other location on your figurer – including the Desktop, some other bulldoze, another computer on your network.

To exercise this, click on the Move push button, and navigate to the folder location which you want to save the screenshots, via the Select a Destination box which opens up. Select the binder and click Apply.

Once you take done this, your captured screenshots volition exist saved to this new location.

To restore the default folder path, you have to simply click on the Restore Default push button and click Apply.

This post may interest yous if Windows non saving captured Screenshots in the Pictures folder.

If you are looking to change default folder locations for some other Windows folders, peradventure some of these posts will be of help to you lot:

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Anand Khanse is the Admin of TheWindowsClub.com, a 10-year Microsoft MVP (2006-16) & a Windows Insider MVP. Please read the entire post & the comments first, create a System Restore Point earlier making any changes to your organization & be careful almost whatsoever tertiary-political party offers while installing freeware.