screenshot!?!?! ------- pathetic huh?

[n0zy]

how do i take a screenshot? (not print screen)

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

n0zy wrote:
> how do i take a screenshot? (not print screen)

Print Screen is the only way to do this in Windows, by default. Unless you
want to use some third party application for screen shots. Print Screen will
capture the entire screen and holding ALT + Print Screen will capture the
active Window only. You then open any imaging editor like MS Paint and click
Edit/Paste to display the captured screen shot.

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[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Pressing the <PrtScn> key copies the entire display to the
clipboard. Pressing <ALT>+<PrtScn> copies only the active Window to
the clipboard. To view the screen capture, open a graphics program,
such as MS Paint, and press <CTRL>+V. This will paste the contents of
the clipboard (your screenshot) into the open file, and allow you to
view it or save it as a file for later use.

How to Capture Screen Shots in Windows Using the Print Screen Key
http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?PR=1&scid=kb;en-us;Q173884


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"n0zy" > wrote in message
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> how do i take a screenshot? (not print screen)

[Ken Blake]

In , n0zy wrote:

> how do i take a screenshot? (not print screen)


I'm not sure what you mean by "(not print screen)." Do you mean
that doesn't work, or that you don't want to use it?

There's really no other choice. 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.

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