Windows 10: what does it mean if my pc is taking random screenshots?

so. this all happened when I installed OBS. im the type of person who uses multiple antiviruses. I use Avast, mcaffe and Malwarebytes. I noticed that OneDrive asked me if I wanted to save screenshots. I clicked on sure and there. more screenshots started appearing. should I be warned of this?

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Fraps takes random desktop screenshots

are you the only one who use's your PC?


you sure someone hasnt installed some sort of keylogger? (some will also take screenshots)




of course if its only you who touches the PC then that situation is very unlikely, as they would email the pictures straight away and not store them on your PC.




but you did say its only when fraps is running so thats is more likely.

do you have any other hotkeys set for taking screenshots?

 

Taking screenshot at windows 10

We found some steps to resolve this issue, in which, we need to edit few things on the registry. Kindly follow the steps below and see if it helps:

• Press Windows Key + R, type Regedt32.exe and click
  OK.
• Navigate to the location listed below:
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
• In the right side, look for ScreenshotIndex, with the key type
  DWORD (REG_DWORD). If you do not see this item on this location, then this is the reason why your screenshot is not being saved under Screenshot Folders. With this being said, you need to create a new registry key. Follow the steps provided
  below:
  • Do a right-click > New > DWORD Value. Make sure to name it as ScreenshotIndex.
  • Double-click on the newly made registry key and edit the values as follows:
    • Base - Decimal
    • Value data - 695
  • Click OK.
• Now we need to make sure that this newly created registry key DWORD is pointed out to your user profile settings. We need to move to a different location in the left side. Kindly navigate to the location provided below in the left panel:
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
• On this location, look for the item named {B7BEDE81-DF94-4682-A7D8-57A52620B86F} with the key type
  expandable string (REG_EXPAND_SZ). If you don't see it, you can create a new key, same as the process we have created with ScreenshotIndex. Just make sure that you select expandable string.
• Double-click on the registry key, make sure that the Value data is in the correct user path. Check the example below:
  • %USERPROFILE%\Pictures\Screenshots
• Click OK.

After doing the steps provided, you can close the Registry Editor and reboot your computer. After restarting your computer, you can start doing a screenshot and it should be saved to the folder you have set in the registry keys. If they are already in there,
then this means that the issue is resolved.

Please note that the steps that I have listed on this response was made from one of the 3rd party articles created by one of our renowned Community MVPs named

Kapil Arya MVP .

Please let us know if this solution works for you.

 

Fraps takes random desktop screenshots

For some reason, my Fraps takes random screenshots. For example when I'm typing a word document or browsing the internet, often I will find screenshots of what I was doing in my designated screenshots folder. Oddly, if I were to press my screencap key directly when Fraps is running, screenshots don't get placed in that folder. Even more odd is that the screenshots are taken in Jpeg format, yet I'm not a registered user of Fraps and can only use BMP. These occurences only happen when Fraps is on, so I'm fairly certain that that is what causes it.

I've tried uninstalling/installing, which didn't work. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. I'm starting to think Fraps is spying on my computer lol.