Where is a screenshot saved in Windows 7?

So what is a screenshot? To put it briefly and clearly, a screenshot is an instant snapshot of the screen. There are several ways taking a screenshot. For example, there are special programs for creating them. But most often, users create a screenshot on a computer using standard tools. There’s probably no point in telling you how to take a screenshot using standard tools in the Windows operating system. Just press special hotkey on the keyboard or a key combination, and then paste the screenshot into some graphic editor. At the end of all these steps, you just need to save the screenshot on your computer.

As for the graphic editor, absolutely any one is suitable for these purposes. For example, the standard Windows graphics editor, known to everyone as Paint, does an excellent job of editing and then saving screenshots to your computer.

Many users are interested in the following question: where is the screenshot saved when pressing the PrtSC key? The answer is extremely simple. After the user presses this key, the screenshot goes to the operating system’s clipboard, that is, to the intermediate data storage. Clipboard - This is part of the RAM, that is, the volatile memory of the computer. Now you know that a screenshot in the Windows 7 operating system is stored on the clipboard. It is also worth noting that absolutely everything that the user has copied or cut is stored in the buffer.