print screen does not work

[dalenherb]

whenever I go through the process of trying to print screen nothing
happens...even though I now the key stroke is getting to the computer...I
have a logitech usb keyboard but the computer shows a standard 101/102 key
or microsoft Natural p...

 

[Wesley Vogel]

The Print Screen key, is often abbreviated as Print Scrn.

Print Scrn key copies everything on your screen.

In Windows, the sole function of this key is to take a snapshot or picture
of your computer screen and copy it to the clipboard. It does not cause the
printer to print anything.

"Under earlier command-line based operating systems, this caused an exact
copy of the current screen output to be sent to the standard printer port,
usually LPT1. In essence, whatever was currently on the screen when the key
was pressed was printed."

Alt key+ Print Scrn key
[[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.

How to Capture Screen Shots in Windows Using the Print Screen Key
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/173884

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Bruce Chambers]

whenever I go through the process of trying to print screen nothing
happens...even though I now the key stroke is getting to the computer...I
have a logitech usb keyboard but the computer shows a standard 101/102 key
or microsoft Natural p...

Pressing the <PrtScn> key copies the entire display, including the
Desktop Wallpaper, to the clipboard. Pressing <ALT>+<PrtScn> copies
only the active Window to the clipboard (iow, into RAM). 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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Bruce Chambers

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