print screen key

[Guest]

hi there, this may seem like a stupid question, but you
know that little key that has PrtSc on it? It's supposed
to print a picture of the screen, right? Where on earth
does it save it and how do you know that it worked?
Thanks for the help.

-K

 

[Kevin]

After hitting the Print Screen key, open Notepad and paste the screen shot.
Congratulations! You now have printed your screen.

 

[Steve C. Ray]

It saves it on the clipboard. After you press the Print Screen key, you can
open Paint, Word, etc., and paste in your image. Then you can modify the
image if you want and print.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Pressing the <PrtScn> key copies the entire display to the
clipboard. 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/search/preview.aspx?PR=1&scid=kb;en-us;Q173884


Bruce Chambers

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[Norm]

You cannot paste a screen shot into Notepad, at least not the Notepad that
came with my XP Home machine, but you can into Wordpad. The print screen is
saved in the windows clipboard and it can be viewed by clicking start, run
and enter clipbrd.

 

[JAX]

PrtScn copies the whole screen, Alt + PrtScn copies the active window.
Either would be copied to "Clip Board". You can open Word, Paint, etc. and
simply paste the contents of Clip Board to it. To view the contents of Clip
Board, go to Start>Run and type "clipbrd",(without quotes). It is a little
slow loading, be patient.

HTH JAX

 

[JAX]

Hi Norm,

I can past to my Note Pad from ClipBrd. It works for text, I don't think it
does for pictures, etc.

JAX

 

[JAX]

I cannot copy PrtScn to Note Pad! I was thinking (maybe not) about something
else.

I apologize for any confusion this may have caused.

JAX

 

[K]

Thanks for all your help! I can now print my screen!
Yahoo!

-K

 

[Ken Blake]

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hi there, this may seem like a stupid question, but you
know that little key that has PrtSc on it? It's supposed
to print a picture of the screen, right? Where on earth
does it save it and how do you know that it worked?

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.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Actually, you weren't completely wrong.

The results of pressing the <PrtScn> while in full-screen
command-line mode creates a _text_ file that can be pasted into
NotePad, WordPad, or Word. Because the information isn't graphical in
nature, it cannot be pasted into Paint.


Bruce Chambers

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[Bill Stanton]

When you press "Print Screen", it puts the contents of
your display on the system's clipboard. Now, depending
on what you have on your computer to process images,
you can usually click on its Edit function and choose either
"paste" or "paste special image".

Post back if you don't know what you have for image
processing.

Bill

 

[Ken Blake]

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When you press "Print Screen", it puts the contents of
your display on the system's clipboard. Now, depending
on what you have on your computer to process images,
you can usually click on its Edit function and choose either
"paste" or "paste special image".

That's what I said. Why are you telling me this?

 

[Bill Stanton]

Sorry Ken, a little confusion. I just subscribed to this
newsgroup and didn't notice the "Re:" in front of the
topic. Thus, it appeared to me at first that I was
responding to the original question.
Bill

 

[Ken Blake]

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Sorry Ken, a little confusion. I just subscribed to this
newsgroup and didn't notice the "Re:" in front of the
topic. Thus, it appeared to me at first that I was
responding to the original question.

OK.