How To Recover Deleted Screenshots on Windows?
Systweak Support
June 24th, 2022
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Screenshots are the easiest way to capture important information or simply share something with friends, family, and coworkers. Its ability to capture precisely what is on your screen makes the function helpful in various circumstances.
Screen capture, like any data, mysteriously disappears & we cannot find it. This can happen due to unintentional deletion of images, a virus attack, or malfunctioning storage media. Whatever the reason, if you know how to find lost/deleted screenshots become easy. Without further delay, let’s look at some workable ways and practical approaches to recover screenshots from Windows.
Related: How to Recover Deleted Photos From PC
Tip: If the screenshots are permanently erased, act quickly to prevent them from being overwritten. The sooner you take action, the higher the chances of recovery.
How To Recover Deleted Screenshots Windows 10?
| Problem |
Solution |
| The screenshot in question has been recently deleted. How can I recover and find my screenshot? |
Method 1: Look for Screenshots in Recycle Bin (Windows). |
| I have mistakenly deleted a vital screenshot and am unable to find it in Recycle Bin |
Method 2: Using Image Recovery Software for Windows to get back lost/deleted screenshots |
Reasons Why Screenshots Are Lost or Deleted
Screenshots, like any other data, can be lost for various reasons. If you have been losing screenshots and other data regularly, check out the reasons below to understand why it’s happening.
- Corrupt Disk – A disk can become corrupted due to sudden power failure, interruption while formatting the disk or simply because there are too many bad sectors. When either of these cases occurs, the files saved on the disk become inaccessible and disappear from your PC.
- Accidental deleting file – Human error is the primary reason for mistakenly deleting files. Everyone once in their life faces this issue.
- Malware or virus attack – Viruses and malware are designed to target files & make them useless or worse.
- Formatting – When a drive is formatted, all its contents are deleted. If the screenshots were stored on the formatted disc, most likely, they were erased during the procedure.
Where Do I Find My Screenshots on Windows?
As there are multiple ways to take a screenshot, the location where screenshots are kept depends on how you took them.
If you have taken screenshots using Snipping Tool, remember there is no default location. This means the screenshots will be saved on the location you decide.
Ways to Recover Deleted Screenshots from Windows?
The percentage of retrieving deleted screenshots from Windows dramatically depends on the time range. If they were lost lately, you have a strong possibility of recovering them because the data hasn’t been overwritten. Let’s look at the many methods for recovering lost or deleted screenshots.
Method 1: Restoring Deleted Screenshot from Recycle Bin
When a file is deleted from Windows, it is stored in the Recycle Bin by pressing the Delete key for 30 days. To restore it from the Recycle Bin, follow these steps:
Note: Recycle Bin limits how much data it can retain, which varies from machine to machine, and the total disk space.
- Double click Recycle Bin icon on your desktop and open it.
- Find the screenshot you want to undelete. Select it > right-click > Restore. If you want to retrieve all deleted data, click Restore the selected items.
This will recover files and will save them in their original location.
However if the Recycle Bin is emptied, don’t worry. You can still recover your files using the Photos Recovery app, developed by Systweak.
Method 2: Search for Screenshots
Sometimes, the file is not deleted but is saved elsewhere on your system that you cannot find. To confirm that is not the case, sign the search tool, look for the file on Windows and save yourself from wasting time attempting to retrieve a still present file.
Windows
- Press Windows + E to open File Explorer
- Click on This PC > go to the folder where you saved the screenshot. However, if you don’t know the folder name, use the Search This PC field to find the screenshot you are looking for.
- If you don’t remember the name, just type in the generic terms like “screenshot” and search for deleted screen capture.
This should help find the screenshot if present on the PC.
Method 3: Restore Deleted Screenshot Using Photos Recovery
Photos Recovery software designed for Windows helps restore lost or destroyed data. In the sections below, we’ll discuss how to use the picture recovery tools to receive screenshots from Windows.
- Click the Download Now button below to get the photo recovery tool and restore deleted screenshots.
- Double-click the setup file to install the screenshot recovery tool.
- Launch Photos Recovery and select the storage media from which you want to scan and retrieve images.
Note: If you want to scan removable media, connect it before launching the product and click the Removable Driver tab to select the drive.
- Select from the two scanning modes – Quick Scan and Deep Scan.
Quick Scan – helps restore recently deleted screenshots.
Deep Scan – Scans the complete system and each folder thoroughly.
- Click the START SCAN button to start the scanning process.
- Preview scan results before recovering and select the files to restore.
Note: Photos Recovery, by default, selects all the images.
- Click RECOVER to retrieve selected screenshots. The location where you restore images should be different than the drive you are scanning.
- Let the recovery process finish. That’s all.
With the help of these simple steps, you can restore deleted screenshots on Windows.
Conclusion
The above steps will help locate and retrieve deleted screenshots from Windows PC. Using Photos Recover,y you can get back any type of image, video, or audio file. The tool is easy to use; even a beginner can use it without training. So, what are you waiting for? Take advantage of the steps explained above and recover unsaved screenshots from Windows.
Note: You can use the trial version of Photos Recovery to see if you will be able to recover screenshots or not.
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