You press Print Screen. Nothing seems to happen. So you open Paint. You paste. You click Save As, find a folder, type a name, pick a format, and click again. Then you do the same thing a minute later. Then again. Then again.
It's only a few seconds each time. But you've done it hundreds of times, and you'll do it hundreds more. It's the small, daft tax you pay for the simple act of keeping a picture of your own screen.
Why Print Screen makes you reach for Paint
It's not your fault. Print Screen doesn't even save a file, it only copies the image to the clipboard, so something else has to do the actual saving. And every built-in tool stops to ask the same questions every single time. Helpful once. Maddening on the fiftieth grab.
A faster way to screenshot on Windows
There's a simpler way. Augustus Screen Grabber does the one thing Print Screen should have done in the first place: you press a key, and the screenshot is already saved in your folder before you've let go.
No save dialog. No naming. No Paint. You set your hotkey and your folder once, and from then on every grab saves automatically, counted up for you: 0001, 0002, 0003. Fire off fifty in a row without ever touching the mouse. A second key makes a fresh folder in your Pictures folder whenever you want one, and every grab after that drops straight into it, so you can split a long run of screenshots into separate batches as you go. The rest of the time it sits in your system tray using nothing, and every screenshot stays on your machine. No cloud, no account. Private, like software should be.
It's seven pounds, once. Not a subscription, not a monthly anything. If you take more than a handful of screenshots a day, it pays for itself in saved minutes inside the first hour, then keeps handing them back. You can carry on paying the Paint tax a few seconds at a time, forever, or spend about the price of a coffee and a sandwich and never think about it again.
Or, if you already know you want it, skip straight to checkout.
If you don't need it, that's fine. There will be more.