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Is it possible to take a screenshot in Windows (10) when not signed in to a user - (I.e. user select/sign-in screen, kernel panic, etc.)? In such situations the clipboard is inaccessible so the print screen button doesnt work.

For instance: I have an error message which comes up after a particular user logs out. I would like to be able to screenshot this error message.

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  • It would be nice to know the DV reason so I can improve.
    – PGmath
    Jun 2, 2016 at 0:40
  • Screenshot at the login screen sounds possible using third party tools like jing but screenshot during BSOD seems only possible through VM
    – clhy
    Jun 2, 2016 at 1:30
  • You could remote in to the computer using remote desktop connection and screenshot it that way, but that might not work. I just tried to do a loop back through remote desktop and you can only have one session active at a time, so that won't work. Couldn't you just take a picture of the screen?
    – spencer741
    Jun 2, 2016 at 1:36
  • There is a hack described here to run a command prompt when not signed in. Maybe you could use this with a screenshot program instead. The first step there is to boot from CD/DVD but I think in your case you can shuffle exe files during normal work.
    – Kamil Maciorowski
    Jun 2, 2016 at 4:11
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    The best thing you can do here is just photograph the screen. Nowadays everyone has a camera on their phone, and the beauty of this solution is, that it also works outside of windows. The photo can easily be sent by email or be moved to the computer through an USB cable.
    – LPChip
    Jun 2, 2016 at 5:23

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