Capturing screenshots of a video running in Windows Media Player isn’t just a click of a button easy. Many times when I had tried to capture screenshots of a movie running in Windows Media Player using “Print Screen” button I used to receive a black image. Recently I came up with these easy methods to capture screenshots which require little tweaking of the Media Player settings. Starting with the easiest method:

While a movie is running or paused in Windows Media Player and you want to capture the screenshot of that movie then instead of pressing “Print Screen” try pressing “Ctrl+I”. A window opens where you can choose the path to save the image file.

Now if you like using the “Print Screen” button for the job then you need to do little easy tweaking in Media Player settings just once and you will be done. So here we go:

• Open Windows Media Player
• Go to Tools>Options
• Select Performance Tab
• Click on the Advanced button down below
• Uncheck the “Use Overlays” option.
• Click Ok and then click Apply
• You are done

Now you can use your “Print Screen” button to take screenshots of video in Windows Media Player.