Print Screen Function

[Guest]

Can anyone tell my why the Print Screen function does not work in Windows XP

I'm using Roxio to burn music CDs. The application does not provide a way to print a list of songs that's on the CD, so I put the new CD in the tray, openied Roxio and tried to use Print Screen to print the listing that appeared. Print Screen would not work. I also tried "Ctrl P" and it did not work

Any ideas

thanks

Le

 

[Rob Schneider]

It does work. In Windows, when you press PrtSc button, it copies entire
desktop to clipboard. Press Alt-PrtSc buttons it copies active window
to clipboard. Paste the image from clipboard into an application which
can accept a graphics image (Wordpad, Paint, Word, etc.).

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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Can anyone tell my why the Print Screen function does not work in
Windows XP?

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,
such as PrintKey2000
(http://www.sharewarejunkies.com/00zwd2/printkey2000.htm).

 

[Guest]

After you click Print screen, open Paint, click Edit and past
You'll see it.