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.

At such moment, this in-built option of Xbox for Windows 10 will assist you. Capture Screenshot and Record Screen using Xbox for Windows 10. To capture screenshot or record Xbox screen or window, just open the Xbox app on your Windows 10 PC. If you haven’t signed in to Xbox app, do it. Otherwise, you cannot access this app.

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Called Game DVR, this feature is designed to record video game footage (you know, for your future YouTube/Twitch stardom). But it doesn't just work for games. In fact, it works in just about any app, including your Internet browser and even Microsoft Word. Because sometimes you want to record yourself typing up an article about the Game DVR feature, I guess.

As a screen recording app, Game DVR is pretty limited. For example, you can't record your entire screen (so it's not useful for making tutorials on how to use it), you can only record one window/app at a time. But it's still pretty handy if you need to grab a video clip within an app, so here's how to activate and use it:

Step 1: If you haven't used the Xbox app yet, you'll need to first open it to set it up. To do this, open the Start menu and go to All apps > Xbox.

Step 2: Once the Xbox app is set up, you can open the Game bar inside any app or program by hitting the keyboard shortcut: Win key + G. The first time you open the Game bar inside an app or program, you will see a pop-up message asking if you want to open the Game bar. Click Yes this is a game. Do this even if it's not a game -- it will work with any app, including Internet browsers.

Step 3: In the Game bar, hit the big red button to start recording a video of the app. This will only record the app window -- it will not record your full screen, nor will it record mouse movements. To stop the recording, open up the Game bar with Win key + G and hit the big red stop button.

Step 4: You can find your new video clip in the Xbox app. Either click the Xbox button on the Game bar, or open the Xbox app from the Start menu. On the left side of the Xbox app window, you'll see a series of icons. Click the icon that looks like an Xbox controller in front of a film strip (the sixth icon from the top) to open the Game DVR menu. Here, you'll see a list of your recorded clips, along with some limited editing features such as the ability to trim a clip or rename it.

Step 5: The Game bar is pretty limited when it comes to screen recording, but you can adjust some video recording settings in the Game bar's settings menu and in the Xbox app. To open the Game bar's settings menu, open the Game bar and click the settings (gear) icon. Here, you'll be able to adjust background recording time, set the maximum length of clips (30 minutes, 1 hour or 2 hours), and have the Game bar remember the program as a game (this is turned on by default). For more advanced settings, such as the ability to set your own keyboard shortcuts to control the Game bar, click Go to the Xbox app to see more settings.

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So I've come across the issue of recording too many clips and it is starting to push old clips out of my library. I've saved clips in the Xbox app, but that just fills my drive up, and it also has a maximum of how much you can save. So I want to just download all of my Xbox clips at once. I don't want to go through one at a time and download.

I've tried using xboxdvr.com's Download All feature. Sadly when I do this, it crashes my browser(Chrome, Edge, Firefox). From what I can gather, it tries to download all 168 files separately, which crashes it. So I then went to Xboxclips.com, and they only download 1 file at a time on different webpages. I could write a script that just goes through each page, but that's more work than I want to do. Lastly, I tried using JDownloader on both sites. Xboxclips doesn't show all clips on 1 page, so that was a bust. It did on Xboxdvr, but every single video file on Xboxdvr is called GameClip-Original. So at first it was downloading and then overwriting what it just downloaded. I finally got it set up to download them and rename them, but then it crashes at random numbers. The first time I got 116/168. The second time I got 46/168. Third was 94/168. It's not ordered in any way, so I can't say 'Start at this video and continue from there'.

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In all of this, I'm incredibly frustrated by the GameDVR experience. Not only is the app really slow, but it doesn't have a good, fast, and easy way to get the clips to a computer. Is there a solution that I overlooked?