print screen

[bill wood]

I can't get my print screen button to work in home ed.
XP. Is there a way to print a screen in this program?
thanks, bill

[Ken Blake]

In , bill wood wrote:

> I can't get my print screen button to work in home ed.
> XP. Is there a way to print a screen in this program?
> thanks, bill



Back in the days of DOS, the PrintScrn key used to print the
screen. But in all versions of Windows (not just Windows XP),
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.

--
Ken Blake
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