Hi everyone. My name is Kevin. Today I want to show you how you can record your Windows 10
computer screen without having to download any screen recorders or any software.
You could simply use an app that comes with Windows 10,
and as full disclosure before we jump into this, I work at Microsoft as a full-time employee.
All right, well, let's jump to it. So here I am on my desktop,
and if we want to record my screen, well, I don't want to just record my boring desktop.
I need something fun.
So why don't we open up a game?
I have this game on my computer called Parkitect and here it is.
And what Parkitect is, it's a computer game where you build an amusement park.
Kind of fun. You can build the rides. You have day night mode,
but you can see it here on my screen and what I want to do now is I want to record this screen.
So how do I do it?
Well, I mentioned that there's an app that comes with Windows and so what I'm going to do is I'm
going to click on the start menu button and that brings up my start menu and the app is
called the Game Bar, so there I'm just going to type in Game Bar and here you'll see it pop up.
It's called the XBOX Game Bar.
Once again, you do not need XBOX to be able to use this app.
It's a free app that comes with Windows 10.
The other way you can launch this app is you press a key combination on your keyboard.
You press the Windows Key and the G key.
So G is in game, and if you press that shortcut combination, it’ll also launch the XBOX Game Bar.
So, you can choose how you want to launch it. Easy way is you just type it in your Windows search,
and it'll pop up as a best match, but what I'm going to do is I'm going to type in
the shortcut key Windows + G, and this brings up the XBOX Game Bar experience,
and so you see lots of different windows on my screen by default, but there's really only one
that truly matters, and that's right up here in the top left-hand corner, broadcast and capture.
So here you'll see that I can click on this first button and that'll take a screenshot.
Underneath, you'll also see what the shortcut key is,
so Windows + Alt + Printscreen will take a shortcut key.
Now, what I could also do is I could record the last 30 seconds of a game.
So, let's say that you're playing a game and you own someone in the game,
and you want to go back and you want to see that footage. Well, you can get the last 30 seconds.
What we can also do is there’s an option here to start recording.
So, Windows the Alt key and the R key.
So, if I press those 3 keys together, that'll just automatically kick off the recording,
so Windows + G launches the Game Bar experience, and then pressing
Windows + Alt + R will actually kick off the recording or I could just press this button.
So, either way. So, what I'm going to do is let's do a quick screen recording here.
So, I'm going to click on record screen and so what you'll see now is I have this little
broadcast and capture button that went on, so it shows that I'm 4 seconds into my recording
and here I see the stop button when I'm done.
So now what I'm going to do is I see the recordings in progress.
You know, here I could hit the stop button and I could also turn on my
microphone clicking this button if I want my voice on top of it.
So, what I'm going to do now is let's go through and I'll show you this, this amusement park.
It's kind of cool you get all these.
It looks like it's nighttime right now, so I get all these lights on all the different rides,
you know, here I have what kind of ride is that? It's called Wipeout.
So, lots of lots of different rides at this amusement park,
but so the main idea is I have my game recording going on.
Now I'm going to click on the stop button, and it says my game clip has been recorded.
So here it says press Windows + G for the Xbox Game Bar.
So, let's go ahead and press that shortcut key again.
What I can do now is if I click on show all captures,
here I can see the video that I just recorded.
So, I'm going to go ahead and play my video,
and here you'll see me kind of going through showing the park, but that's my screen recording.
What I can also do is if I click on this open and file explorer button,
this will show me my video that I just recorded in file explorer.
So let me zoom out here, and what I could do is I'm just going to sort by date so I could find
the most recent video. Here I can double click on it and here's also my screen recorder on Windows.
Now what I could do is with this file then I could take this MP4 file and I could go to YouTube,
and I could upload it. I could go to Facebook. I could upload this video by taking this video file.
So that's really how simple it is to record your computer screen using the Game Bar.
A few of the things that I also wanted to show with the Game Bar, what we're going to do is I
opened it up again by pressing Windows + G I'm going to click into settings.
Now, there are a few settings that are kind of interesting,
and I figured I'd give a quick view of those.
One of them is if you click on shortcuts.
So here within the shortcut view, you'll see what all the shortcuts are to use the Game Bar,
so you can press Windows + G if you want to open the Game Bar.
You could change this to anything else as well if you'd prefer another shortcut key, and then
you can see, you know, take a screenshot, record the last 30 seconds, start and stop recording.
You can see what the shortcut keys are, so if you want to be a master of the Game Bar,
you don't have to, you know, open it up and click buttons and said you can just use your keyboard.
It's a little quicker. What you could also do is there's a cool thing under personalization
where you could either set a light theme or you could set a dark theme if, you know,
let's say it's at night and you want to be a little easier on the eyes, you can go with that.
Also, under capturing, this is kind of interesting too.
You could choose what audio you want to record, so you could record the game and a microphone.
You can record everything,
or you could record no audio at all, so you have a lot of different options here.
You could also set notifications, so you could turn off notifications when you're
playing and recording your screen, and you have a few other settings,
so you can go ahead and just explore the menu and see what you can do with in there.
I'm going to close out the settings. Some of the other things that you'll
see here is you could adjust your audio so the
you know whether the game, how loud you want that to be versus system sounds.
You can see your performance to see how well your computer is handling both the game and
the screen recording at the same time, and then because it is an Xbox app, you could also see
Xbox social things like who your friends are who are online at the current time, but the key thing
of screen recording is included as part of this app. Now with the Xbox Game Bar and using this
as a screen recorder, you can record a browser window, you could record any type of app window.
One of the and you could record any types of games that you need to record. Some of the downsides
though if you use a win 32 app, let's say Word as an example, if you click on any of the file menus,
the file menus won't show up and you could only record one window at a time. So, you can't record,
say, a desktop. Those are some of the drawbacks of the Xbox Game Bar. However, it does come for free
as part of your PC, so it's a nice app to try, and especially if you need a screen recorder in
a hurry, you can very easily take advantage of this. If you're looking for a better and more
powerful screen recorder, though, one thing I'm going to do is I'm going to go back to my desktop.
There's another tool called OBS Studio.
I have a video on how to get that and how to set that up.
I've included that as the first comment and also in the description.
If you want a more powerful screen recorder, that's a very good option.
You have lots of customization, you could set lots of different things.
It's more powerful than the Game Bar, but once again, it requires a download.
It's also free, but it's a little more complicated, requires a few more steps.
So, all-in-all, the Game Bar is a pretty solid screen recorder that'll let you
record your Windows 10 computer screen without any issues.
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