print screen key

[Guest Mindy]

I'm trying to make a copy of the screen but I have tried hitting the print

screen key and ALT + print screen but nothing works. Any suggestions?

[Guest Bruce Chambers]

Re: print screen key

 

Mindy wrote:

> I'm trying to make a copy of the screen but I have tried hitting the print

> screen key and ALT + print screen but nothing works. Any suggestions?

 

 

By design, as it has always been with every version of Windows,

pressing the <PrtScn> key copies the entire display, including the

Desktop Wallpaper, to the clipboard (iow, into RAM). 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/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;173884

 

 

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[Guest Ken Blake, MVP]

Re: print screen key

 

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:18:01 -0700, Mindy

<Mindy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to make a copy of the screen but I have tried hitting the print

> screen key and ALT + print screen but nothing works. Any suggestions?

 

 

Back in the days of DOS, the PrtScn 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-PrtScn 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, such as

PrintKey2000 at

http://www.sharewarejunkies.com/00zwd2/printkey2000.htm

 

 

 

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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience

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[Guest Plato]

Re: print screen key

 

=?Utf-8?B?TWluZHk=?= wrote:

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> I'm trying to make a copy of the screen but I have tried hitting the print

> screen key and ALT + print screen but nothing works. Any suggestions?

 

The print screen key in modern computers does NOT print the screen. It

merely copies the file to memory, aka "the clipboard". One can then open

up just about any common program to view the "screen print" by pasting

it, [very often, edit, paste]. I like to modify the print before I use

it for whatever, even if sending via email; eg perhaps I want to shrink

it. I use the apps. below:

 

http://www.bootdisk.com/utility.htm

GENERAL TOOLS

Image Editors

[Guest ju.c]

Re: print screen key

 

See if this helps:

 

1. Open the 'Control Panel' and run 'DirectX'.

2. Select the 'DirectDraw' tab.

3. Check the box "Enable PrintScreen Key"

4. Apply, OK.

 

 

ju.c

 

 

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=?Utf-8?B?TWluZHk=?= wrote:

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> I'm trying to make a copy of the screen but I have tried hitting the print

> screen key and ALT + print screen but nothing works. Any suggestions?

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