Print screen button does not work

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W E B G U R L

Every since I upgraded to XP Pro I have trouble with the print screen button. It seems
Windows does not want to copy the screen but does have something in the clipboard memory
instead. Is there a setting I can change to allow my print screen button to work?

Thanks
 
What did you upgrade from? The print screen button has caused a copy to
clipboard to occur since windows 3.1. Perhaps you had some sort of third
party utility installed for so long that you forgot about it.

The original printscreen function was based on the fact that the common
display was ascii text based. (DOS). Obviously, it can be done based upon a
GUI display. For whatever reasons, Microsoft elected to provide clipboard
based support for the print screen key.
 
The Print Screen key, is often abbreviated as Print Scrn.

The sole function of this key is to take a snapshot or picture of your
computer screen and copy it to the clipboard.

Alt + Print Scrn

[[Will take a screenshot of the currently selected window, not the entire
screen like the normal screenshot function. This allows you to target that
specific window that you have open and nothing else. No more cropping those
screenshots to grab the content you were after!]]

You have to paste the image in to Paint, Wordpad, Word or some other program
that will handle images.

This will clear out *everything* from the System Clipboard.

To clear the Clipboard.
Start | Run | Type: clipbrd | Click OK |
Click on the Edit menu | Click on Delete | Click Yes to the prompt

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In
 
Thanks. Have archived this. It was so much easier with 98SE. To date, I am not impressed
with XP. So many things now do not work correctly, including elements of software I use
such as Dreamweaver.

Got this from a webmaster forum:

http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html - screen capture software freeware



| The Print Screen key, is often abbreviated as Print Scrn.
|
| The sole function of this key is to take a snapshot or picture of your
| computer screen and copy it to the clipboard.
|
| Alt + Print Scrn
|
| [[Will take a screenshot of the currently selected window, not the entire
| screen like the normal screenshot function. This allows you to target that
| specific window that you have open and nothing else. No more cropping those
| screenshots to grab the content you were after!]]
|
| You have to paste the image in to Paint, Wordpad, Word or some other program
| that will handle images.
|
| This will clear out *everything* from the System Clipboard.
|
| To clear the Clipboard.
| Start | Run | Type: clipbrd | Click OK |
| Click on the Edit menu | Click on Delete | Click Yes to the prompt
|
| --
| Hope this helps. Let us know.
|
| Wes
| MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
|
| In | W E B G U R L <iamedia[nospam]@hotmail.com> hunted and pecked:
| > Every since I upgraded to XP Pro I have trouble with the print screen
| > button. It seems Windows does not want to copy the screen but does have
| > something in the clipboard memory instead. Is there a setting I can
| > change to allow my print screen button to work?
| >
| > Thanks
|
 
Is your version of Dreamweaver compatable with XP? i.e. Dreamweaver v.8?

http://www.windowsmarketplace.com/results.aspx?text=macromedia+dreamweaver&av=&clickedsearch=1

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In
W E B G U R L said:
Thanks. Have archived this. It was so much easier with 98SE. To date, I
am not impressed with XP. So many things now do not work correctly,
including elements of software I use such as Dreamweaver.

Got this from a webmaster forum:

http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html - screen capture software
freeware



Wesley Vogel said:
The Print Screen key, is often abbreviated as Print Scrn.

The sole function of this key is to take a snapshot or picture of your
computer screen and copy it to the clipboard.

Alt + Print Scrn

[[Will take a screenshot of the currently selected window, not the entire
screen like the normal screenshot function. This allows you to target
that specific window that you have open and nothing else. No more
cropping those screenshots to grab the content you were after!]]

You have to paste the image in to Paint, Wordpad, Word or some other
program that will handle images.

This will clear out *everything* from the System Clipboard.

To clear the Clipboard.
Start | Run | Type: clipbrd | Click OK |
Click on the Edit menu | Click on Delete | Click Yes to the prompt

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In
W E B G U R L said:
Every since I upgraded to XP Pro I have trouble with the print screen
button. It seems Windows does not want to copy the screen but does have
something in the clipboard memory instead. Is there a setting I can
change to allow my print screen button to work?

Thanks
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I had a program that would not work in XP. I made a shortcut to the .exe
file that runs the program. I right clicked the shortcut, chose
Properties.... clicked on the Compatibility Tab and selected to run the
program in a compatibility mode for Win 98 SE. The program then worked
fine. Yours may work the same.
 
There is no reason to do that for programs that have versions that are
availble for use with XP.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In
Darrell S said:
I had a program that would not work in XP. I made a shortcut to the .exe
file that runs the program. I right clicked the shortcut, chose
Properties.... clicked on the Compatibility Tab and selected to run the
program in a compatibility mode for Win 98 SE. The program then worked
fine. Yours may work the same.

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Darrell R. Schmidt
B-58 Hustler History: http://members.cox.net/dschmidt1/
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W E B G U R L said:
Thanks. Have archived this. It was so much easier with 98SE. To date, I
am not impressed
with XP. So many things now do not work correctly, including elements of
software I use
such as Dreamweaver.

Got this from a webmaster forum:

http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html - screen capture software
freeware



Wesley Vogel said:
The Print Screen key, is often abbreviated as Print Scrn.

The sole function of this key is to take a snapshot or picture of your
computer screen and copy it to the clipboard.

Alt + Print Scrn

[[Will take a screenshot of the currently selected window, not the
entire screen like the normal screenshot function. This allows you to
target that specific window that you have open and nothing else. No
more cropping those screenshots to grab the content you were after!]]

You have to paste the image in to Paint, Wordpad, Word or some other
program that will handle images.

This will clear out *everything* from the System Clipboard.

To clear the Clipboard.
Start | Run | Type: clipbrd | Click OK |
Click on the Edit menu | Click on Delete | Click Yes to the prompt

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In W E B G U R L <iamedia[nospam]@hotmail.com> hunted and pecked:
Every since I upgraded to XP Pro I have trouble with the print screen
button. It seems Windows does not want to copy the screen but does have
something in the clipboard memory instead. Is there a setting I can
change to allow my print screen button to work?

Thanks
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That did not work.

I have been using one of the recommended third party applications, however, they are not
convenient to use when just clicking the print screen button is so much quicker when
creating my screen shots.

I cannot understand why in Win98 I never had any problems, but now with XP service pack 1,
it will not work. I cannot upgrade to service pack 2 either as a few things in Dreamweaver
does not work.



| The Print Screen key, is often abbreviated as Print Scrn.
|
| The sole function of this key is to take a snapshot or picture of your
| computer screen and copy it to the clipboard.
|
| Alt + Print Scrn
|
| [[Will take a screenshot of the currently selected window, not the entire
| screen like the normal screenshot function. This allows you to target that
| specific window that you have open and nothing else. No more cropping those
| screenshots to grab the content you were after!]]
|
| You have to paste the image in to Paint, Wordpad, Word or some other program
| that will handle images.
|
| This will clear out *everything* from the System Clipboard.
|
| To clear the Clipboard.
| Start | Run | Type: clipbrd | Click OK |
| Click on the Edit menu | Click on Delete | Click Yes to the prompt
|
| --
| Hope this helps. Let us know.
|
| Wes
| MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
|
| In | W E B G U R L <iamedia[nospam]@hotmail.com> hunted and pecked:
| > Every since I upgraded to XP Pro I have trouble with the print screen
| > button. It seems Windows does not want to copy the screen but does have
| > something in the clipboard memory instead. Is there a setting I can
| > change to allow my print screen button to work?
| >
| > Thanks
|
 
Hi, WEBGURL-
I have the same Windows as you, and it handles the PrintScreen function
exactly the same as with Windows 98.
1. Press the PrtSc button
2. Paste the image into Word, Paint, etc. with your mouse.

That is all there is to it. When you do these steps, what happens? What gets
pasted?


That did not work.

I have been using one of the recommended third party applications,
however, they are not convenient to use when just clicking the print
screen button is so much quicker when creating my screen shots.

I cannot understand why in Win98 I never had any problems, but now
with XP service pack 1, it will not work. I cannot upgrade to service
pack 2 either as a few things in Dreamweaver does not work.



Wesley Vogel said:
The Print Screen key, is often abbreviated as Print Scrn.

The sole function of this key is to take a snapshot or picture of
your computer screen and copy it to the clipboard.

Alt + Print Scrn

[[Will take a screenshot of the currently selected window, not the
entire screen like the normal screenshot function. This allows you
to target that specific window that you have open and nothing else.
No more cropping those screenshots to grab the content you were
after!]]

You have to paste the image in to Paint, Wordpad, Word or some other
program that will handle images.

This will clear out *everything* from the System Clipboard.

To clear the Clipboard.
Start | Run | Type: clipbrd | Click OK |
Click on the Edit menu | Click on Delete | Click Yes to the prompt

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In
W E B G U R L said:
Every since I upgraded to XP Pro I have trouble with the print
screen button. It seems Windows does not want to copy the screen
but does have something in the clipboard memory instead. Is there a
setting I can change to allow my print screen button to work?

Thanks
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