The Xbox Game Bar is one of the easiest-to-use screen-capturing tools available. The utility can be accessed from every game — including the desktop — via a hotkey.

Recording your screen is helpful whether you want to show others what you’re doing or save a video. You can record your screen using Xbox Game Bar, a built-in feature for Windows.

The new Windows 10 Xbox Game Bar is a great and easy tool built into Windows 10 for recording gameplay and making screenshots. Here's a quick primer on how to get it working.

Windows 10 lets you use the Game bar to record gameplay footage and take screenshots of Windows PC games. You can also use it as a screen recorder, although that functionality is somewhat limited.

Windows 10 has a native feature that lets you record a video clip -- of up to 2 hours -- of your screen. But you may not have noticed this feature, because it's hidden away inside the Xbox app.