How to Record a Video Directly from Windows 10

How could it be otherwise, largely due to the enormous growth and use of these components, Microsoft strives to improve its system in this regard. In these same lines we are going to show you the easiest way to record your own videos in Windows 10 . At the moment we already have the possibility of carrying out this that we are commenting on in a fairly simple way, something that was not always the case.

Perhaps many of you will still remember that in older versions of the Redmond system, this was not possible natively. Therefore, to record our own videos we had to use third-party software solutions. However now things have changed a lot in this same sense in the most recent versions of the software. Therefore, at this time we can use the Windows 10 Game Bar to record our own videos.

How to open and use the Windows Game Bar

It should be mentioned that this is a useful element that has been around for a while, but for many it is a complete stranger. Its staging in Windows 10 came largely due to the fact that Microsoft seriously considered that games in gaining much more weight within the system. So he decided to integrate a series of special functions for all this.

In addition to the aforementioned games, some advantages were added for the treatment of multimedia content such as video, as we will see. To give us an idea of what we are telling you here, say that the Game Bar is an overlay screen that we can launch at any time. It has several functionalities, among which is the video recording that interests us here. It also has other features so that we can obtain information about the PC hardware , or access to social networks. To access all this that we tell you, we only have to use the Win + G key combination.

At that time, a series of widgets will appear on the screen in small windows that belong to this particular section. By default we see one that measures the performance of the PC in real time, another for social Xbox, another to search for other players, etc. At the same time, it should be noted that these widgets can be left fixed and visible at all times by simply clicking on their pushpin button.

Record a video in Windows with the Bar

What at first seems like a basic tool, hides a host of largely unknown functions and features. One of them is precisely what concerns us in these same lines, the recording of videos . We will achieve this without third-party applications. First of all we will tell you that Windows itself has several options when it comes to taking screenshots. In fact, the same Game Bar also allows us to do the same, but this is not what we are looking for now.

Therefore, to record a video on your Windows 10 PC without the need to use external programs, we use the widget that by default appears in the upper left corner of the screen. We see it as soon as we launch the aforementioned Game Bar and it is called Capture.

Start and stop recording videos

It is worth mentioning that initially this is an element that was launched so that we can capture our games on video. However, the truth is that it will also be of enormous use to us to record videos of any program in Windows . Therefore, to put the widget into operation, in principle we only have to click on the button that is represented by a circle. At that moment, a new window will appear on the right side of the screen that indicates various data.

For example, we will see the total duration of the recording that is underway, as well as being able to activate or not the use of the microphone. At the same time we find here a button to end the process. It is also interesting to know that this recording we are talking about can be started at any time by just using the Win + Alt + R key combination.

In addition, to access the videos that we have recorded over time through this functionality, we only have to click on the Show all captures section . A new window will appear that will even allow us to directly open the folder where these contents are saved by default, in case we want to delete or copy any of them.

Limitations when recording a video with the Game Bar

As we mentioned before, this is an element that was originally created to make videos from the games we play on the Windows PC. But as we have just seen, this is also applicable to any other application that we have installed in the operating system. But perhaps we are going to find a little problem in this same sense.

Specifically, we mean that when recording video in Windows 10 through the Game Bar, this widget presents us with an important limitation . What we want to tell you is that it will not allow us to capture the desktop as such. In fact we will see how the start button of the recording itself is inactive when we have the Windows desktop in view. But we must know that with the rest of applications and of course, games, we will not have problems when recording our own video directly in Windows.

Something that we must bear in mind in this regard is that we save ourselves from having to download and install third-party programs to carry out this type of video-related task. Something that, as you can imagine, can be of enormous help when creating our own tutorials for the use of applications, for example. In addition, these videos are saved on the hard drive like any other, which will allow us to share them later on video or on social platforms in a simple way.