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How to Screen Record in Windows 10/11

by Justin Barry
by Justin Barry

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How to Screen Record in Windows 10/11 – Guide

Recording your screen in Windows 11 is a great way to show off the new features you are playing or to ask a question about How to do something specific. If you want to record gameplay, presentation or anything else, you can record your screen in Windows 11 Preview. You can use built-in tools or download third-party software.

Fortunately, both Windows 10 and Windows 11 have screen recording built in as part of the Xbox Game Bar tool and it’s extremely easy to use even if you want to record your activities in a non-gaming app. However, the Game Bar has some limitations, so you might want to use a third-party app like OBS for screen recording if you’re doing something more complex than just capturing one app at a time.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video is worth a million. If you’re showing someone how to perform a task in an important app or you want to show off your gameplay, screen recording in windows is a great way to do that. Recording screens on your computer is important because you can create YouTube videos or record certain errors or anomalies that appear on the screen. Taking a screenshot is also an efficient method, but it is better to record the screen or a video, which can help to understand the problem is fascinating.

Record Windows screen with Xbox Game Bar

Built into Windows 11 and Windows 10, Xbox Game Bar has several features designed to improve your gaming experience such as providing quick access to Xbox chat and taking a look at your CPU and GPU activity. However, it is more useful feature – whether you’re playing games or not – is its ability to record MP4 videos.

There is a downside to using Xbox Game Bar to record your screen: it only works on a single app at a time and cannot capture the Windows desktop or File Explorer. So if you want to show someone how to doing a task involving multiple programs — for example, programming a web page in a code editor and then viewing it in a browser — you would need to take multiple videos.

  • Click on the application you want to record.
  • Press Windows key + Alt + R to start screen recording. A small recording widget showing how long you’ve been recording appears somewhere on the screen, probably in a corner. You can also get here by launching the Xbox Gamebar (Windows Key + G) and then finding the capture widget, but the keyboard shortcut is much simpler.
  • Perform whatever actions you want and use your microphone to record audio. You can also mute the microphone if you don’t want to capture any sound.
  • Press Windows key + Alt + R again to stop screen recording. You can also hit the stop button on the widget You will get an alert that says “Game clip recorded. If you click on it, you will enter the Gallery section of the Gamebar app and you can view the video you captured. You can also find the MP4 file you recorded in the Videos/Captures folder.

    • Configuring Xbox Game Bar Screen Recording

    While the default settings are probably fine for most people, there are a few options you can change.

  • Navigate to Settings->Games->Captures.
  • Change any of the following settings. Note that while they use the word “game”, the settings should apply to any app you record, whether it’s a game or not.
  • Record What Happened (Win 11) / Background Recording (Win 10): This creates a 30 second (or longer if you change the settings) buffer of automatically recorded content. So if you’re playing a game and you’ve just had an epic death, you can press Windows key + G to launch the game bar and you can save the 30 seconds that just passed even if you weren’t actively recording to the game bar. screen. Note that the name of this setting is different in Windows 11 and 10, but the feature it’s the same.
  • Maximum Recording Duration: The amount of time after which screen recording will automatically turn off. I recommend leaving this at the default of two hours.
  • Capture audio when recording a game: By default, this records sounds from your microphone and the game itself, but excludes background sounds from Windows or other apps. You can disable audio recording entirely or enable it to record system sounds or change balance.
  • Video frame rate: The default is 30 fps, but you can change it to 60 fps.
  • Video quality: choose standard or high.
  • Capture mouse cursor when recording a game: I recommend leaving this enabled, especially if you are recording a non-game application.

    • Recording the entire screen with OBS Studio

    The main disadvantage of using Windows 10 or Windows 11 built-in Xbox Gamebar for screen recording is that it can only work with one app at a time and will not show Windows desktop or File Explorer. To capture your entire desktop and all your windows, you’ll need a third-party application, and while there are many, we like OBS Studio for this purpose.

    OBS Studio is very popular in the game streaming community because it is free and great for streaming games to Twitch and other sites. However, you can also use OBS to record your entire screen in Windows 11 and save it as an MP4 file without ever streaming what you’re doing.

  • Download, install and launch OBS Studio. When you launch OBS for the first time, you will be asked if you want to optimize OBS for streaming or recording only, if you have not already done so. If you don’t want to stream, select “Optimize for recording only”.
  • Click the More icon under Fonts to add a new font.
  • Select View Capture.
  • Click OK in the dialog box that appears up. You can give the source a name other than Screenshot if you like.
  • Choose a display and click OK. If you have more than one monitor, this will allow you to have OBS on one screen while recording activity on another. If you only have one monitor, there is only one option.
  • Click the Start Recording button button in the lower right corner of the screen.
  • Minimize OBS if you are recording the screen from the same monitor that OBS is on.
  • Click Stop Recording in OBS when finished.

    • Final note

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    Justin Barry

    Justin Barry has been writing about technology as a career for more than a decade at this point. The majority of that time was spent as a freelance writer covering a wide variety of topics, some examples of which include mobile phones, wearables, tablets, smart home devices, laptops, augmented reality, virtual reality, mobile payments, and fintech.

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