How to record screen in Windows 10 without programs

Recording your Windows 10 PC screen has never been easier. Thanks to a built-in tool, you can capture your on-screen activities without downloading additional apps, saving you space on your hard drive.Windows is an operating system that not only serves as a platform on which to install programs and applications with which to carry out your tasks, it also includes some hidden tools that you will find very useful, such as recording videos of your PC screen without having to install any additional program.

Recording your computer screen is not only useful for sharing your best video game sessions, you can also use it as a tool to create an improvised video tutorial . Its use is very simple and intuitive, but we will still tell you step by step how to record the screen in Windows 10 without installing anything.

Start recording your Windows 10 screen

Once you’ve enabled the Game Bar launch, you can launch it at any time by pressing the Windows + G combination . Doing so will bring up the bar with all the available options. This includes both recording and streaming controls.

For now, since the goal is to get a video file from your screen recording, you’re only going to use the direct recording features. 

  • To do this, click on the recording button identified with a central dot or press the key combination Windows+ Alt+ R ​​.
  • The recording will then begin, so you can start opening programs or making the presentation you want to record. 
  • On the right side, at the top of the screen, a small toolbar will appear where you will see the recording time, the button to stop recording and the one that allows you to activate the microphone (if it is deactivated) to also record your voice.
  • When you want to finish recording, just click the Stop Recording button on this bar and the recording will stop to save the generated video file. 
  • A notification will tell you that the file has been successfully saved in the location you set as default or if you left the system location, the files will be in your Windows user under Videos and then Captures .
  • Not only are videos present in the Xbox Game Bar, but you will also have sections for sound such as those called Mix and Voice , where you will manage the volume of the speakers, the microphone and the different volumes of the different windows open in Windows .
  • Just below you can see another window with the Performance that is being used from the CPU and GPU , as well as the RAM memory and even the FPS .
  • Finally, the central bar is where you can add new elements, since the Xbox Game Bar has many elements that you can open, but today we are only interested in those related to recording the Windows screen .

What you can do is click on Show all screenshots in the Capture window. Here you will find the videos you have recorded with the Game Bar. This way, you can easily record your games or whatever you want from what appears on the screen without having to install any additional software. 

Obviously, it is a very simple tool , but it can get you out of a bind, if you cannot download any other more professional tool from the internet.

With Windows 10 you have everything you need to record your screen quickly and easily . Start exploring these built-in tools and discover their potential for your captures and recordings. If you have tried the Game Bar for recording, you can tell us what you think and what experience you had on our social networks.