
Its free, simple to use, and you dont have to spend. If the window didnt stay pinned, move the cursor to the top of the screen. You can use the Windows 10 built-in screen recorder - Xbox Game Bar.

Choose a recording mode from 'Full Screen' or 'Region'. Optionally, select whether to record the microphone audio and cursor, and whether that control window should stay pinned. Heres how to screen record with audio on Windows 10: Step 1. Click Select Recording Area and draw a rectangle. If you don't plan to stream, choose "Optimize just for recording. If you have PowerPoint: Click Insert -> Screen Recording. The recording will start shortly after you make a selection. If you want to record the whole screen, select your desktop. Select a window or click and drag to highlight an area to record. When you launch OBS for the first time, if you haven't already, you will be asked whether you want to optimize it for streaming or recording only. Alternatively, use the keyboard shortcut Shift+Print Screen to record an MP4 or Ctrl+Shift+Print Screen to record a GIF. However, you can also use OBS to record the entire screen in Windows 10 or Windows 11 and save it as an MP4 file, without ever streaming what you do.ġ. OBS Studio is very popular in the game streaming community because it's free and great at broadcasting games out to Twitch and other sites. To capture your entire desktop and all the windows on it with a full suite of options, you need a third-party app and, while there are many, we like OBS Studio for this purpose. Snipping Tool can capture more but it doesn't support audio and it is rather feature-limited.

The biggest drawback to using the Xbox Gamebar to screen record Windows is that it can only work with one app at a time and will not show the desktop or File Explorer. (Image credit: Tom's Hardware) Recording the Whole Screen with OBS Studio
