ALT-Print Screen - desperate

[Laurel]

I did a google search and found a ton of people complaining in this group
that ALT-PrintScreen no longer worked. Unfortunately, I couldn't find an
answer. Most responses seemed to be "It works for me." or "It's on the
clipboard."

So, let me be very clear here. PrintScreen works. It works fine. After I
press PrintScreen, I can ctrl/v a bitmap of my whole desktop into Outolook
or Word or Paint, or whatever.

ALT - PrintScreen does not work. I would expect it to do exactly the same
thing, except that it would only capture the active window. Instead, ctrl/v
pastes whatever text I had last "cut" or last captured via PrintScreen, or
else nothing at all.


I used ALT PrintScreen many times a day. I can't swear that it never worked
with XP. I've only been up and running a couple of weeks, and it's been a
struggle. But it is possible it never worked.

Please advise. I'm desperate

TIA
Laurel

 

[Rob Schneider]

Clearly, something is interferring with normal XP behaviour. It
probably is not a problem/bug with XP. Spy-bot, virus, or other
nefarious program?

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms

 

[Sharon F]

I did a google search and found a ton of people complaining in this group
that ALT-PrintScreen no longer worked. Unfortunately, I couldn't find an
answer. Most responses seemed to be "It works for me." or "It's on the
clipboard."

So, let me be very clear here. PrintScreen works. It works fine. After I
press PrintScreen, I can ctrl/v a bitmap of my whole desktop into Outolook
or Word or Paint, or whatever.

ALT - PrintScreen does not work. I would expect it to do exactly the same
thing, except that it would only capture the active window. Instead, ctrl/v
pastes whatever text I had last "cut" or last captured via PrintScreen, or
else nothing at all.


I used ALT PrintScreen many times a day. I can't swear that it never worked
with XP. I've only been up and running a couple of weeks, and it's been a
struggle. But it is possible it never worked.

Please advise. I'm desperate

TIA
Laurel

I use both PrtScrn and Alt+PrtScrn on my system. I do have a few programs
installed that when I use Alt+PrtScrn to do a screen capture of them that I
get the whole desktop instead of the active window. Why are those few
programs different? I have no idea but a crop tool in an graphics program
quickly gets rid of the image portions that I don't want.

 

[Laurel]

I use both PrtScrn and Alt+PrtScrn on my system. I do have a few programs
installed that when I use Alt+PrtScrn to do a screen capture of them that I
get the whole desktop instead of the active window. Why are those few
programs different? I have no idea but a crop tool in an graphics program
quickly gets rid of the image portions that I don't want.

Which programs?

 

[Plato]

I did a google search and found a ton of people complaining in this group
that ALT-PrintScreen no longer worked. Unfortunately, I couldn't find an

http://www.gadwin.com/printscreen/
http://www.wisdom-soft.com/downloads/downloadfiles.htm

 

[Malke]

http://www.gadwin.com/printscreen/
http://www.wisdom-soft.com/downloads/downloadfiles.htm

As just a generalized note, whenever you find a "ton of people
complaining" in this newsgroup about suddenly not being able to do
something simple, the first thing to do is scan with a current
antivirus. The second thing to do is scan with spyware removal tools.
I'm not saying this is Laurel's problem and it is certainly good to
have the alternate program choices, but she should do the normal
Windows troubleshooting first; i.e., make sure her computer is virus
and spyware-free.

Cheers,

Malke