Reset Screenshot counter in Windows 10

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When y'all press the Win+PrtScr keyboard shortcut, Windows xi/x volition automatically save a screenshot of your computer screen or desktop in the Pictures\Screenshots binder. These images will exist named in serial order every bit Screenshot(1), Screenshot(ii), Screenshot(3), etc. This screenshot index value or number is stored in the Windows Registry

At present even when you delete some screenshots, Windows will proceed to proper noun them from the last number onward. Say you were to delete Screenshot(two) and Screenshot(two) and you were to then take a screenshot, it will get saved as Screenshot(4). This would be the case even if y'all were to delete all the screenshots.

Reset Screenshot counter

If yous take out a lot of screenshots and delete a lot, so this could go inconvenient.

If you wish, y'all can reset the screenshot counter, and make it kickoff numbering from one.

To practise this, Run regedit to open up the Registry Editor and navigate to the post-obit cardinal:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

In the right pane, you will see ScreenshotIndex.

Double-slick on it to open its Value box and requite it a value of 1 in the Value Data field.

In my prototype beneath, you volition see that it has a value of 4. I will have to change it to 1.

Having done this, leave the Registry Editor.

This will reset the screenshot counter on your Windows 10/eight PC. Now when you relieve images, the number 1 or the smallest bachelor number will exist used to salvage the screenshot.

See this post if Windows 10 / 8 is non saving captured Screenshots in the Pictures binder.

How practise I alter the screenshot key in Windows?

There is no direct mode to modify the screenshot keyboard shortcut in Windows, but instead, it can exist overtaken by another software that uses the same shortcut. However, if yous desire, y'all can disable the snipping tool being launched past going to Settings > Accessibility > Keyboard, so plow off the pick for Use the Impress screen button to open screen snipping.

How to launch Snipping Tool without using the Print Screen push button?

You lot can utilize the keyboard combination Win + Shift + South to launch the Snipping tool if disabled from the accessibility setting. Information technology volition ensure yous can utilise the default screenshot tool along with whatever 3rd-party tool you lot employ to take a screenshot in Windows.

Anand Khanse is the Admin of TheWindowsClub.com, a 10-yr Microsoft MVP (2006-16) & a Windows Insider MVP. Please read the entire mail service & the comments first, create a System Restore Point before making any changes to your system & be conscientious well-nigh whatever 3rd-party offers while installing freeware.