How to take a scrolling screenshot on Windows

Windows doesn’t have a built-in scrolling screenshot. Snipping Tool (Win+Shift+S, or PrtScn on Windows 11) captures only what’s on screen, and Microsoft’s own guidance is that long scrolling pages need a third-party tool. For a web page, Microsoft Edge can do it: press Ctrl+Shift+S, choose Capture full page, then copy or save the result. For anything that isn’t a web page (a Teams or Slack thread, a long settings list, a document, one panel of a web app), use a screenshot app with scrolling capture, such as hypershot: press Ctrl+Shift+J, drag over the part that scrolls, scroll through it, and click Done.

The built-in way

Snipping Tool on Windows 11 has grown a lot (text extraction, a capture delay, quick redaction), but it still takes one screenful at a time, and Windows 10’s Snip & Sketch never had scrolling either. So the built-in answer is the browser.

Microsoft Edge

1. Open the page and press Ctrl+Shift+S (or open the … menu and choose Screenshot; older versions of Edge call it Web capture).
2. Choose Capture full page.
3. In the preview, draw on it if you like, then copy it or save it.

Chrome

1. Press F12 (or Ctrl+Shift+I) to open DevTools.
2. Press Ctrl+Shift+P, type screenshot, and choose Capture full size screenshot. The neighbouring Capture screenshot only grabs what’s visible, so read the name before you press Enter.

Firefox

1. Press Ctrl+Shift+S, or right-click an empty part of the page and choose Take Screenshot.
2. Click Save full page, then download or copy it.

All three are free and quick for a public web page. The limits: they capture the web document, not your screen. A panel that scrolls on its own inside a page (the message list in a web chat app, a code viewer, a sidebar) often won’t come out whole, sticky headers and lazy-loaded images can turn out oddly, and none of them can do anything outside the browser: File Explorer, Outlook, a desktop Teams or Discord thread, a long PDF.

With hypershot

hypershot’s scrolling capture works from the screen, so whatever scrolls in any app can be captured.

1. Press Ctrl+Shift+J, or choose Scrolling Capture from the tray menu.
2. Drag a box around the part that scrolls, and only that part.
3. Scroll the content yourself, at a steady pace.
4. Click Done (or Cancel to throw it away).

You get one tall image of everything that passed through the box, in order.

What that gets you over the browser tools:

• Any app. Desktop chat apps, Outlook, Word, a terminal, a settings list. If it scrolls on screen, it can be stitched.
• One panel, not the whole page. Box in the conversation column of a web app and leave the sidebar and header out.
• You can see it working. A live preview of the stitched image sits in the overlay, and a status light says when to slow down, when you’ve scrolled back up, and when you may have reached the end.
• It lands in the editor. Redact the names in a thread or add a few arrows before sending, and it’s already saved as an editable .hypercapture.

The honest limits: you do the scrolling (steady beats fast), it works best scrolling vertically in one direction, and the tallest image is bounded by your GPU’s maximum texture size. Keep sticky headers out of the box; hypershot flags them as Fixed content detected. The longer tour, status light and all, is in Capturing a page that refuses to fit on a screen.

Which to use

• A whole public web page, and you’re already in Edge or Chrome: the browser’s full-page capture is fine.
• Anything outside a browser, a single panel of a web app, or something you need to annotate or redact first: hypershot’s scrolling capture.

Does Snipping Tool have a scrolling screenshot?

Not as of Windows 11 in late 2026. Its modes are Rectangle, Window, Full screen and Freeform, plus video recording, all limited to what’s on screen at that moment. Microsoft’s own Windows learning center puts it plainly: “Not natively. For long scrolling pages, you’ll need a third-party screenshot tool.”

Is it the same on Windows 10?

Yes. Snip & Sketch and the older Snipping Tool have no scrolling mode either, and the browser options above work the same way. hypershot runs on Windows 10 and later.