print screen

[madmurg]

is there any way to do a screen print in windows xp. what I want to do is
print a list of folders from windows explorer or my computer.

[Rob Schneider]

madmurg wrote:

> is there any way to do a screen print in windows xp. what I want to do is
> print a list of folders from windows explorer or my computer.
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Yes there is a way to do this via screen print. Put the information you
want on the screen (in Explorer). Press alt-prtscn button to copy
active window (Explorer) to clipboard. Paste that image into a program
for viewing/printing (WordPad, Paint, Word, etc.)

[Ken Blake]

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madmurg > typed:

> is there any way to do a screen print in windows xp.


Back in the days of DOS, the PrintScrn key used to print the
screen. But in all versions of Windows, this works differently,
and the name of the key is now an anachronism.

To use the key, press it to capture an image of the entire
screen, or press alt-PrintScrn to capture an image of the active
window. Either one captures the image to the Windows clipboard.
Once it's in the clipboard you can paste (Ctrl-V) it into any
application that supports graphics (Windows Paint, other graphics
programs, even your favorite word processor). You can edit or add
to the image as you wish, then print it.

This ability to manipulate the image in a program before printing
it is an improvement over the original DOS method of just
printing it. But if you'd like that old facility back, there are
several third-party freeware/shareware programs that can do this.



> what I want to
> do is print a list of folders from windows explorer or my
computer.


PrintScrn may not be the best tool for this. Here are three other
ways to consider:

1. Go to a command prompt and issue the command

dir [drive:folder] > prn

If that doesn't work, your printer may not be connected to prn.
In that case issue this command instead:

dir [drive:folder] > c:\tempfilename (you can use any name and
put it in any folder you want)

Then open notepad, open tempfilename, and print it from there.


2. Go to
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q321379
and follow the instructions there.


3. Download and use any of the several freeware/shareware
utilities that can do this.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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