How to Capture a Scrolling Screenshot in Windows 10?

Michelsmith
3 min readSep 24, 2020

But you will be needing a third party application, in order to capture a screenshot of a scrolling window of a webpage, document, or any other window that’s beyond the viewable area. In the below article we will show you the third party applications to Capture a Scrolling Screenshot in Windows 10.

1.Capture a Scrolling Screenshot in Windows 10 using ShareX

ShareX has its own well-populated Discord channel and is also validated by its broad popularity in the discerning game- streaming community. ShareX, the free screen capture app is available in its own website as well as on the steam gaming platform.

ShareX is a widely populated app among the gamers due to its excellent screen capture features. It’s highlights also include several effects and filters. Along with screen capture, it also lets you capture the videos, gifs, etc. The most important feature that lights up the app is it’s “Scrolling capture” option.

Now, in order to scroll capture your screen, go to the shareX app > click Capture then “Scrolling capture”. Once you select your region, you can click on the window you want to scroll, whether you want there to be a delay before the screen-capture starts, and how many scrolls you want to capture.

This open source app is excellent, easy going, and is also free with all the effective features inbuilt in it.

2. Capture a Scrolling Screenshot in Windows 10 Using Picpick

Picpick on the other hand, is also a robust screen capture tool with features that include image editing software. It is owned by NGWIN. Just like shareX, it is also free to use and as users share their review, they tend to be truly positive and honest about it.

The Region mode helps you to isolate and capture a dialogue box without any background noise.

Fixed Region mode lets you set your desired screenshot length and width in terms of pixel count which will help you to make sure all your screenshots are uniform. It also has a Scrolling Window mode that allows you to capture a scrolling screenshot of a webpage or a document in just a few clicks.

To capture a scrolling window, follow the below steps.

a.Press and hold Ctrl+Alt, followed by pressing Prtsc. A rectangular box will appear on your screen highlighted in red.
b.Next, press and hold the left mouse button and then drag it to the scrolling window and choose the area.
c.Lastly, once you will release the mouse the auto-scroll will occur on your screen and your screen will be captured within
a while, automatically.

3. Capturing a scrolling screenshot in Windows 10 using Snagit

Snagit, created by Techsmith is also one of the most popular screen capture and video recording software. A focused sleek interface is it’s biggest highlight.

Snagit is not free and costs $50 per license, which is relatively high due to its top notch editing functionalities and advanced screen capturing features. It’s superlative highlights make Snagit the most popular and liked screen capturing tool among the users, despite being chargeable.

Also, panoramic capture is one of its screen capture options that allows you to capture just a small section of a scrolling Window. To capture a scrolling window in snagit, follow the below steps.

a. Open the all-in-one-tab followed by clicking the “Capture” button.
b.Next, click on the yellow arrows depending on the direction you desire to scroll.

4. Capture a Scrolling Screenshot in Windows 10 using Apowersoft screen capture pro

Apowersoft screen capture pro is the most creative and customisable among the screen capture and editing tools. It is due to its 10 screenshot modes, which includes Scrolling screenshots, Menu, and Freehand etc.

The scrolling capture mode comes with a “Task Scheduler” which can be used to take automatic screenshots. This mode helps you to capture an entire webpage, document, or browser, including contents hidden from the viewer.

Along with its screen capturing option, it also offers an exquisite image editing option with several editing selects, screen recording, uploading, and sharing online. However, the program is quite expensive. It offers a lifetime license for $79.95 as well as a monthly subscription starting from $12.95 per month.

We hope the above article helped you to Capture a Scrolling Screenshot in Windows 10 using different third party applications mentioned above.

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