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Here’s how to screen record on Windows 10.
To record your Windows 10 computer screen, you won’t need to download any third-party
apps.
By default, Windows 10 comes with a built-in screen recorder called Xbox Game Bar for recording
gameplay and other applications, and it’s already been activated.
You can also go to check if it’s actually enabled by opening Start menu, clicking Settings,
and then choosing Gaming.
Right after that, turn the switch to ON position under Xbox Game Bar.
In this screen, you can also view the hotkeys associated to opening the Xbox Game Bar, recording
a video, taking a screenshot and other tasks.
This is how to enable Xbox Game Bar screen recording tool.
The next thing is that you need to know a little about the Game Bar.
As its suggested, it’s basically designed to recording game clips complete with audio,
but you can record almost Windows apps and the on-screen activities.
The only bad news is that Game Bar can only capture one application at a time, not the
entire screen.
Windows desktop, File Explorer, and some certain apps like Weather and Maps cannot be recorded
in the screen recordings.
Okay, too much for Xbox Game Bar of recording screen on Windows 10.
Let’s move on.
We’re gonna show you how to use Xbox Game Bar to take a screen recording of Windows
10 desktop and laptop.
We’re going to record a YouTube video playing on the computer via the web browser, but you
can use the same steps to record a video of your favorite PC game clip or application
or whatever.
Alright, let’s begin.
As Xbox Game Bar can record a single application at a time, so first, I open the video on my
YouTube channel that I wish to record, but I do not play it.
Now the second step is to press Windows key plus G on the keyboard to open Xbox Game Bar
on Windows 10 computer.
Upon you see the Capture widget, click the Start Recording icon and your computer will
begin recording.
You can also start a screen recording immediately using Windows key plus Alt plus R.
You will know that your screen is recording when you see a timer on the top-right position.
To record your voice as well for narrations or commentary, make sure the Microphone icon
on the floating bar is enabled.
If you want to disable the microphone audio recording, simply click the Microphone icon
to mute any external sound.Now set to play the video or perform whatever actions on the
screen you want to capture.
When you’re ready to finish Game Bar screen recording, click the Stop Record icon on the
floating bar.
Alternatively, a press of Windows key plus Alt plus R can also end the recording.
Alright, a notification reading “Game clip recorded” pops up, and lets you know that
the video for a game, an application, web browser or whatever is recorded.
So, then if you click on the notification, then you’ll be taken to Gallery widget of
Game Bar so you have a preview of what’s recorded on your screen.
You will find the video recording saved as MP4 file format.
You can also locate the recorded video in Captures folder under Videos folder on your
Windows 10.
So that’s how easy it is to do a screen recording with audio and with your microphone
as well from Windows 10 PC or laptop using the preinstalled Xbox Game Bar for capturing
gaming process and application.
If you need to capturing the entire screen on Windows 10, move to the next method, as
Game Bar lacks the ability to do that.
So, for recording entire Windows desktop, you can use AppGeeker Screen Recorder software.
It’s able to capturing anything from computer, including the multiple app activities on Windows
desktop as well as File Explorer.
You can use it to record a full screen or just a selected portion of the window, enable
system sound and microphone audio for your screen recording, output in different formats,
convert the recorded video and many more editing tools like trimming, cropping, and merging.
All right, you can get Screen Recorder from AppGeeker website.
Now, open it, and to screen recording computer, choose Video Recorder.
If you want to record a video while playing game, select Game Recorder instead.
On the next screen, you have several options to control over how your record your screen.
Click Full option and the full screen will be captured, or click the Custom option and
select the certain area that you want to record on the screen.
In this case, I choose Full option to take a video recording of the whole screen.
The, enable audio recording while recording the screen.
You can capture the audio from app, system as well as microphone.
Or enable Webcam if you’d like to screen capture yourself at the same time.
In case you need more adjustments on the recording, click the tiny gear icon right above the Microphone
option.
Here you will get settings for recording, output, sound, mouse and hotkeys.
Okay, to start the recording on your screen, hit the REC button.
After a 3-second countdown reaches to zero, the software begins capturing the screen activities
on the computer, and displays a floating bar with recording controls, a timer, and some
toolkits.
Once you’re finished, click the Stop Record button to end screen recording on your computer.
Right after that, a new window appears, from which you can view the video and trim it before
saving to your local drive.
The recorded file is outputting to MP4 format by default.
That’s it.
So now you should know how to screen record Windows 10 computer.
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