How can I take screenshots of the Windows 10 Login Screen?
Add the Snipping Tool as the Ease of Access button to do the job.
Open Registry Editor and navigate to the following location:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options
Create a new Key called utilman.exe on the left panel and a new String value called Debugger at the right panel. Then set the path of the snipping tool (see below) as the value of the string.
C:\Windows\System32\SnippingTool.exe
At the Login Screen, Click the Ease of Access button, the one next to the Power button at the bottom right corner of the screen. The snipping tool pops up. Take the screenshot of the Login Screen and click Copy button to copy it to the clipboard. You won’t be able to save the screenshot you just took, but you can still use Clipboard as your middle man to transfer the content.
Log back to your desktop, launch Paint app or any other photo editing or screenshot app you use and paste it.
Source: https://www.nextofwindows.com/windows-10-tip-how-to-take-screenshot-of-lock-screen-and-login-screen
The word "camera" leaps to mind. :-)
If you've got a mobile phone there's a good chance you've a camera in it as well, so that's usually an easy option.
You can easily transfer the photo to whatever you want after that.
There's a tendency with issues like this to only look at solutions within the problem domain - i.e. you're looking at a way to get the computer to take a screenshot, not looking for a way to get a shot of the screen.
I'd be lying if I said I hadn't wasted ages myself trying to get the computer to do something that just grabbing my camera and taking a quick snap shot wouldn't have done way faster. People get tunnel vision on problems and don't look for alternatives.
Alternatively, Lee Whittington made a freeware tool to achieve that:
Ease Of Access Replacer
The freeware replaces the button with the following useful tools:
Logon Screen Screenshot : Take a screenshot of the Logon Screen. Logon Screenshots are saved to C:\Screenshots.
Lock Screen Screenshot : Take a screenshot of the Lock Screen. Lock Screen Screenshots are saved to C:\Screenshots. (Among other tools as well)
It should work on Windows 10 as well (used it)
