How does Windows 8 save screenshots to the desktop

  
Under Windows 8, press PrintScreen to take a screenshot of the screen. If you press Win+PrintScreen, the screenshot will be automatically saved to the folder of the system "Screenshot". But this folder is very deep and it is very troublesome to open every time. So here Xiaobian teaches everyone a way to save a screenshot of the Windows 8 screen to the desktop.
How to save the screenshot to the desktop on Windows8:
1. Enter the win8 desktop, then press win+r to open the running window of the computer.
2. Enter rgedit in the Run window and click Enter. This will open the registry editor for your computer.

3. On the left side of the Registry Editor window, we can see a long list of menus. Let's expand HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer, click on the Explorer folder. The files contained in this folder will appear in the window on the right.

4. We find the ScreenshotIndex option in the file on the right and double-click, then modify the value data to 1 in the settings window to make sure to close the window.

After the above steps, the user needs to restart the computer to take effect. In this way, try again through the screenshot, this screenshot is not saved directly on the desktop.

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