How To Only Screenshot One Monitor Site

No more cropping out your second monitor’s Discord or Slack notifications. Just pick the method that fits your workflow and capture exactly what you need.

Here’s a blog-style post you can use or adapt: If you work with two or more monitors, you’ve probably hit this frustration before: you press PrtScn (Print Screen), and Windows captures everything – both screens, taskbars, and all. Then you end up cropping out the second monitor in an image editor. how to only screenshot one monitor

nircmd savescreenshot "C:\monitor2.png" 2 (2 = second monitor) | Need | Best Method | |------|--------------| | Quick one‑monitor capture | Win + Shift + S → Full‑screen snip | | Capture active window only | Alt + PrtScn | | Edit before saving | Snipping Tool (move it first) | | Daily heavy use | ShareX (hotkey per monitor) | No more cropping out your second monitor’s Discord

Dual monitors? Triple? Let me know if you need help configuring a hotkey for a specific display. Then you end up cropping out the second