General Reset Screenshot Index Counter in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to reset the screenshot index counter back to 1 for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11.

When you take a screenshot using the Windows + Print Screen keyboard shortcut, the screenshot is saved into your C:\Users\(user-name)\Pictures\Screenshots folder with a file name of Screenshot (#).png with # indicating the screenshot index counter. Each screenshot you take increases the counter # in the file name incrementally by one.

You can reset the screenshot index counter back to the default 1 on demand when wanted.


EXAMPLE: Screenshots folder




Here's How:

1 Open Windows Terminal, and select either Windows PowerShell or Command Prompt.

2 Copy and paste the command below into Windows Terminal, and press Enter. (see screenshot below)

If wanted, you can change the ScreenshotIndex DWORD value to a number other than "1" at the end to have the index start with that number instead.

3 You can now close Windows Terminal if you like.




That's it,
Shawn Brink