From here, you need to click the New button in the upper left to initiate a screen capture and open the small panel. If you open Snip & Sketch from the Start menu or by searching for it, it will open the Snip & Sketch window instead of the small panel at the top of the screen. (If you miss the notification, open the notification panel and you'll see it sitting there.) Click the notification to open the screenshot in the Snip & Sketch app to annotate, save or share it. Once you take your screenshot, it will be saved to your clipboard and show up momentarily as a notification in the lower-right corner of your screen.

Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNETĮither the keyboard shortcut or the notification button will dim your screen and open a tiny menu at the top of your screen that lets you choose which type of screenshot you want to take: rectangular, freeform, window or full-screen.

The built-in Snip & Sketch app has finally won us over and is now our go-to method for taking screenshots in Windows 10 and 11.

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