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With Windows 11, there is an inclusive software that allows you to record your computer screen.

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Now, strictly speaking, it is designed to record gaming on your PC, but you can use it for other

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things as well.

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So, for instance, you can record certain activities within your browser, so maybe a YouTube video

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or a Zoom meeting or something like that.

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You can also use it for some of the other Microsoft applications.

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So, for instance, I was able to record a tutorial within Microsoft Excel using the software.

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But anyway, I've got these two clips of what the software can record.

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So I'll quickly show you the first clip now.

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And here's the second clip of a game, so I'll show you that now.

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So as you can see, it is pretty handy.

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So when it comes to do's and don'ts with the software?

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Well, actually, I suppose it would be called the do's and cons some things you can do and some things

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you cannot.

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So, for instance, you cannot record your desk top.

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So what you see right now in front of you?

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So what I'll do is I'll just show my icons so that it looks like a real desktop.

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You can not record this here and you can not record your file explorer.

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So this year, you're limited to this.

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Now, as you already know, you can record your browser like this, but if at any point you minimize

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your browser and the same with games as well and you expose your desktop, the recording will just stop

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and won't even tell you that it stops.

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It will just stop.

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So just be aware of that.

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So when you record with the software, it's nice to know where these clips are actually being safe to.

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Now, strictly speaking, the folder has only a few clicks away.

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But what I'd like to do is have the folder on the desktop itself so that I can just click on it and

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have access to those clips straight away.

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So what are we going to do is we're going to move that folder and put it onto the desktop.

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So to get that folder?

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What we have to do is we have to hold down the Windows key and press I.

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And this will open up the Windows settings, and you have to come to gaming, then come to captures.

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Then this is the folder we want here, so I'm going to click on Open Folder.

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And I'm going to take a look at the path here, so it says it's this PC videos captures, so this is

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where this folder is.

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So I want to click on this PC here.

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In fact, I didn't have to click all the way back, but it's OK, I'll click on videos and I'll click

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on the Captures folder and I'm going to hold down control and press seal my keyboard to copy it.

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Minimize this and I'll get rid of this here.

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Control plus v to paste it on my desk top.

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So here is the Captures folder.

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And as you can see, I already have some screen captures in here.

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So the next thing is setting up your microphone.

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Now, if you're using a laptop, then more than likely you will have some type of in-built microphone.

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However, if you're using a desktop PC, then more than likely you will not have an in-built microphone.

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Well, I mean, some of them do, but typically they don't.

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And you have to use some type of external microphone.

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But with regard to actually recording yourself like what I'm doing now, you have to go to the sound

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settings to set that up.

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So just come to the little magnifying glass here, come up to the search bar type and sound and then

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click on sound settings.

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And then just scroll down a little bit and you'll see the microphone that I'm using is registered here.

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So if you're on a laptop and you have an external microphone plugged in, you should have the option

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of two microphones to choose from and you can just choose whichever one you want.

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There's also another thing here, which is the volume of the microphone.

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If you're recording and your microphone is really low, then you need to come to this area here and

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just turn up the microphone.

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So once your microphone is all set up, you can get rid of these settings here and now we can open up

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the screen recording software itself.

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Now, I tried to do this earlier, but unfortunately my screen recording software was clashing with

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the Windows screen recording software.

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So what I had to do was I had to compile a whole load of screenshots and put them into PowerPoint.

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Now let's get your screen recorder up and running.

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You have to hold down the Windows key and press on your keyboard, and this will show up.

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Now, let's get rid of it.

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All you have to do is just press escape on your keyboard and it will shut down.

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So I'm just going to run through a few of the settings with the screen recorder, but I think a few

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of them are pretty obvious to start recording.

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You can hit this button here and it will start recording.

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And by the way, when you start recording, it won't actually see what we're actually seeing on a screen.

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It would just see what's in the background.

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But yeah, you hit this button to start recording.

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And there's also this here the microphone setting.

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You can turn this on or off if you want to record yourself on a microphone.

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So that's pretty straightforward.

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Then there's this middle module here and here at the top, we have these widgets.

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Now, if you wanted to add widgets and there aren't that many of them, you can just come to this icon

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here and add some widgets.

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Now, as you already know, we've already added a CAPTCHAs folder to the desktop where we can get a

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hold of our captures straight away.

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But if you really wanted to, you can hold down the Windows key and press G to come to this window here,

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and you can just click on Gallery here.

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Once it's been added to the toolbar and you'll gain access to those clips, but I just prefer to have

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the capture folder on the desktop then as this icon here.

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And this is very similar to the Processes tab within the task manager.

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And basically, it just tells you, OK, what programs are running right now or what applications are

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running in the background?

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So that I suppose before you start your game, you might want to shut some of them down so that your

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computer has as much processing power as possible.

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So with regard to this window, to get the real time information, you can just hold down control,

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shift and press escape.

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The task manager will open up and then you just want to navigate to the Processes tab.

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And basically, they should be identical.

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So what have you see in this window here should be identical to what you're seeing in here?

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In this particular instance, though, not identical because these screenshots are from yesterday.

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But basically, they should be identical.

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So before you shut anything down, just make sure that you know what you're shutting down because it

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might be a critical program.

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So just be careful with regard to that.

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Then finally, we have the settings here, and there's just two main areas I want to take a look at.

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There's the capturing section, which is the audio to record.

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And this gives you the option to OK, record the game and enabled Mike.

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Or you have the all option here or not to choose whatever option suits you best.

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And then there's the shortcuts themselves.

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So we already know the Windows key plus G brings up the screen recorder itself, but the other one to

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remember is going to be this one here.

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The Windows Key Plus Alt Plus are to start recording and stop recording, if you can be bothered to

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click this icon here.

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So like I said before, to get rid of this, all you have to do is press escape and it will disappear.

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OK, so there's just one last thing I want to go through with you.

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We need to go back to the window settings, so hold down the windows key and press eye on your keyboard,

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then come to gaming.

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Then come to captures.

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And just scroll down a little bit and we have these settings here.

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So the main wants to take a look at, I suppose, would be maybe the max recording length, because

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sometimes you might forget to turn off the recorder, in which case you don't want it to eat up all

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of the memory on your computer.

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So you might want to set this to, well, whatever you want.

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Captured the audio when recording the game.

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That's an important one.

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And there's also the video frame rates.

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So at the moment, it's set to 30 frames per second, which is recommended, and that's fine with me,

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considering Hollywood only uses 24 frames per second.

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So if 24 frames per second is good enough for Hollywood, 30 frames per second is good enough for me.

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Then there's the video quality, and depending on how powerful your computer is and how much memory

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you have as well, because the higher video quality is obviously going to use more memory, you might

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want to choose high or just standard.

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So whichever one you prefer.

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And you can just turn this option off here to have the cursor within your game.

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It's totally up to you.

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Once you're done, you can just exit that.

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And we're all done that.

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So once you've finished recording, remember you can just navigate to your captures folder on the desktop

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and it should be in here.

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So the one thing to take away from this is just to remember you cannot record the desktop and you cannot

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record the File Explorer.

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But there are other things as well you need to be aware of.

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So for instance, if I was to go to YouTube and watch a video and put that video in full screen, you

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may find that the screen recorder will stop working.

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So I noticed this within Windows 11.

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It didn't happen with Windows 10, but it happens in Windows 11.

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So that's just something to be aware of.

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So you just have to test, test, test just to find out what the software is actually capable of.

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OK, I'm going to move on to the next tutorial now where I'm going to quickly introduce you to the software

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that I use, just in case you're interested in doing what I do.