How to save screenshots to the desktop on Windows 8

Under Windows8, press PrintScreen to take screenshots of the screen. If you press Win+PrintScreen, the screenshots will be automatically saved to the system "Screenshots" folder. 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 does Windows 8 save the screenshot to the desktop:

1. Enter the win8 desktop, then press win+r to open the computer's running window.

2. Enter rgedit in the Run window and click Enter. This will open the registry editor for your computer.

3. The left side of the Registry Editor window, we can see a long list of the menu bar, below we expand HKEY_CURRENT_USER \\ Software \\ Microsoft \\ Windows \\ CurrentVersion \\ Explorer, click File Explorer After the folder, the files contained in this folder will appear in the right window.

4. We found in the file on the right and double ScreenshotIndex option, then set the value of the data in the edit window 1, is determined to close the window.

After operation of the above steps, users need to restart the computer to be able to take effect the operation. In this way, try again through the screenshot, this screenshot is not saved directly on the desktop.