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Windows 11 Screen Recorder: How To Use the Free App

Windows 11 has a new screen recorder in the Microsoft Snipping Tool for capturing your screen in MP4 video format. Here’s how to use it. Read the CNET article – 8 Ways to Take Screenshots in Windows 10 and 11 Microsoft’s article – How to record your screen on Windows 11 0:00 Intro 0:13 Accessing…

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Windows 11 has a new screen recorder in the Microsoft Snipping Tool for capturing your screen in MP4 video format. Here’s how to use it.

Read the CNET article – 8 Ways to Take Screenshots in Windows 10 and 11
Microsoft’s article – How to record your screen on Windows 11

0:00 Intro
0:13 Accessing the Snipping Tool Screen Recorder
0:39 Recording your screen
2:14 Screen Recorder video file formats
2:30 Audio recording
2:55 How to Pin the Snipping Tool
3:00 Recording your screen with the Xbox Game Bar

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31 Comments

  1. Emmelyy

    August 29, 2023 at 8:00 am

    I think it’s really cool how you are always so motivated to make a video and put so much effort into it – respect!🌹

  2. Ramin Faizy

    August 29, 2023 at 8:03 am

    Great future thanks

  3. J C

    August 29, 2023 at 8:09 am

    This feature should be as easy to use without a explanation video from Cnet. MS continually making OS that is harder to use compared to Apple OS. What a shame.

  4. Pieceof Shitzu

    August 29, 2023 at 8:12 am

    Sorry- but I’m gonna continue to use “unregistered hypercam 6”

  5. Saffron🧡

    August 29, 2023 at 8:21 am

    Whaaaaaaaaa 🤯🤯🤯 this information is so valuable thank you! I never knew this and I’ve had windows 11 for well over a year! Thanks we need more videos like this! 👍

  6. Nomad Outdoor Adventures

    August 29, 2023 at 8:24 am

    Thank you so much for bringing this to our attention. I’ve been looking for something like that for a while been using third-party apps and the one that I used to use I had paid for it and all the sudden they updated their app with a new subscription model so now I can no longer use my old version, so this is great news. Thank you.

  7. Han Solo

    August 29, 2023 at 8:41 am

    Can’t believe it’s taken this long

  8. arbknight12

    August 29, 2023 at 8:52 am

    Just remember to hide your Favorite tabs.
    🤨

  9. iblackfeathers

    August 29, 2023 at 9:07 am

    i see he’s lip syncing to that a.i. voice 😂
    but seriously, it took a long time for microsoft just to move away from avi & wmv for a built-in application that saves in video by default to a more user-freindly format.

  10. linkin

    August 29, 2023 at 9:10 am

    so Microsoft made a screen recording tool that doesn’t record audio, and a recording tool that includes audio but is limited in what you can record. 😅 lol this is a great lesson from Microsoft on how to miss the mark everytime. I can only imagine how a brainstorming meeting at Microsoft would go, “okay everybody how can we make something that’s almost usable but not”.

    • Swapnil Chopade

      August 29, 2023 at 11:26 am

      Audio recording is not as easy as Screen recording. There may be requirement of specific Permissions or privacy concerns. Its very challenging to reliability make it work with different hardware configurations and software environments.

    • Kyle Klmondwa

      August 29, 2023 at 4:25 pm

      Lol just when I thought Microsoft added $50 dollar value to their O.S…no audio capturing…ummmm think Ill just stick with a cheaper version OS and buy a $50 real screen recorder. Thanks anyways Microsoft.

    • linkin

      August 30, 2023 at 11:08 am

      @Swapnil Chopade there are privacy settings in Windows that can control which apps have access to the microphone. browsers, video conferencing software, the built-in camera, etc.. all have access to the microphone just fine. what you’re saying makes no sense.

    • linkin

      August 30, 2023 at 11:12 am

      @Swapnil Chopade screen recording seems like much more of a privacy concern and security risk 🤦. I’d rather be recorded silently sitting at my computer then potentially record me typing an unmasked password

  11. Aragorn7884

    August 29, 2023 at 9:51 am

    Gotta ❤ how someone is gonna goof big time on this 😏😅

  12. Wander Watterson

    August 29, 2023 at 10:15 am

    Congratulations to microsoft finally making this feature while macs already has this for a long while 😂

  13. Allen at the Moon

    August 29, 2023 at 11:14 am

    What you should have said as soon as you mentioned “third-party apps” was something like “but don’t worry viewers, all you have to do is download “OBS” or “Streamlabs OBS” (both of which are free) to have more screen recording capabilities that you even knew existed or could ever possibly need.” and you could have saved someone years of frustration and actually empowered and informed your viewers like you are posing to do. I hope I don’t run across any of your tutorials anymore because this is actually hurting people, not helping them. You basically.just told people that their only options were to either settle for basically no functionality with a native screen recording program or go down a risky rabbit hole of fake and costly apps that may or may not work when they could just do something as simple as download and install OBS. Thank you for showing us the limitations of the windows screen recorder within the snippet tool though. No hard feelings, I’ve just been through the ringer with screen recording audio issues and it gets me all fired up lol

  14. The United Wings

    August 29, 2023 at 12:14 pm

    W

  15. Osmien

    August 29, 2023 at 12:43 pm

    1000 years later

  16. socialmedia info

    August 29, 2023 at 2:26 pm

    lol didn’t know this existed 😂

  17. Gerydome

    August 29, 2023 at 3:01 pm

    After finding out that it doesn’t record audio it was basically useless

    • Kyle Klmondwa

      August 29, 2023 at 4:30 pm

      Lol this no audio “screen recorder” is almost as insulting as Microsoft taking away the ability to Play DVD movies without downloading Extra Software.

  18. bawsMane

    August 29, 2023 at 3:38 pm

    Windows + Alt + R

    • CNET

      August 29, 2023 at 5:02 pm

      Doesn’t work

  19. Gurvinder Parmar

    August 29, 2023 at 5:47 pm

    Snagit abd other apps similar have been the reason MS didn’t add things like this in the past.

  20. alicia wang

    August 29, 2023 at 9:43 pm

    Thanks for the info!! This is precious!!!

  21. teitake

    August 29, 2023 at 10:05 pm

    It’s so meta. How did you record the act of using the recording app?

    • CNET

      August 29, 2023 at 10:41 pm

      Used a video streaming encoder with a 4K hdmi input to capture the Windows 11 laptop screen.

  22. Juan Lopez

    August 29, 2023 at 10:33 pm

    How can you move the window logo to the left and remove the widget, I dont like in the middle

  23. Walter Rivera

    August 30, 2023 at 1:27 am

    Does anyone know a way to record your screen, computer audio and the microphone at the same time on windows?

  24. Pandora's Box

    August 30, 2023 at 3:59 am

    Nvidia Geforce records screen (Full Screen) with audio for anything you have playing on your desktop through Geforce experience – press keyboard shortcut Alt Z to bring up complete menu anytime you want to use it

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