How to make a screenshot of the UAC window?
Or the window is protected and you can not take a screenshot?

  • It does not work for me, there is the most strict mode. - Zergatul
  • @Zergatul can be done in such a way as to take a screenshot in the response, even with the strictest mode (added screen check). It may help in the future, a very useful feature :) - LFC
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    association: stackoverflow.com/questions/4046940/… - MSDN.WhiteKnight

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You did not write what OS (7,8,10?).
For example, I will give the option of how this can be turned:

In Windows 10 since version 1703 , a screen capture function has been introduced.
In order to capture the selected area, press the key sequence: Win + Shift + S , then select the required area and simply release the left mouse button.
Screen for verification (tested on Windows 10 Pro; Version 1809; OS Build: 17763.316):

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Principles of User Account Control

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    Thank you, helpful answer. I will sometimes use it, before I used Yandex screenshot, well, and other external programs - Alexandr_TT
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    @Alexandr_TT I myself found out not so long ago that Windows has such a function, now I took it as a rule, after each big update of the system, I read what Microsoft added. - LFC
  • In the secure window (UAC) mode does not work, but thanks. - Tomasz Kaczmarek
  • @TomaszKaczmarek can still be clarified in which OS, as there are differences. - LFC

Windows with the highest level of protection UAC switches the system to the Winlogon secure desktop before displaying the UAC window. You can disable the secure desktop:

  • Using Group Policy Editor: secpol.msc -> Local Policies -> Security Settings -> Disable User Account Control: Switch to a secure desktop when prompted to increase ( User Account Control: Prompt for elevation )

  • Using the registry: Set the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ System key to PromptOnSecureDesktop set to 0.

Then the UAC window will start as usual, and its screenshot can be made usual Print Screen.

However, the question remains: what if I want to make a screenshot of a secure desktop? As it turned out, this can be done. For this you will need:

  1. A program that can save screenshots to a file by pressing a hot key (for example, Greenshot ).

  2. PsExec utility from the PsTools package.

To create screenshots of the secure desktop, you need to run our screenshot program on behalf of the local system on the WinSta0\Winlogon desktop. The command line to run looks like this:

 PsExec /h /x /d /s "C:\Program Files\Greenshot\Greenshot.exe"

(run, of course, from the command line running as administrator)

After that, when the UAC window appears, press the hot key (Ctrl + PrintScreen in the case of GreenShot), and you're done: a dialog box appears on the protected desktop that allows you to save the image to a file!

dialog

Result:

screen

In fact, everything is not going quite smoothly: GreenShot rolls in a bunch of error messages when it is running in a secure desktop, but the main thing is that it works, screenshots are saved.

Sources:

Help: Turn off your desktop in Windows 7

How to take a screenshot of the Window's secure desktop? - Answer by Antonio Dias

  • Thank you for the step by step method and in general for the translation! +1 - LFC
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    @ MSDN.WhiteKnight Thank you for the excellent response and for reminding Mark Russinovich wonderful developer and about his site sysinternals which is not there now, since he bought it in 2006 windows And what kind of smart programs were there - AutoRuns - Alexandr_TT
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    I add the link AutoRuns Very useful utility. You can track, turn on, turn off processes, services, drivers, codecs and this is not removed when you uncheck the box. You can always turn it back on. - Alexandr_TT