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Is there a way in XP to print what is on the screen? I pushed the prt sc
button on my keyboard but nothing printed out to my printer.
 
Is there a way in XP to print what is on the screen? I pushed the prt sc
button on my keyboard but nothing printed out to my printer.
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The print screen key copies an image of the screen to the clipboard
ready to paste somewhere.

Alt-Print Screen copies only the active window.

You can then open up a program such as Paint or Irfanview and copy the
image into that.

Then select the normal print option in that program.
 
I did press the prt sc button and opened MSpaint and clicked on edit but the
paste button wasn't in bold to let me paste it.
 
BobL. said:
Is there a way in XP to print what is on the screen? I pushed the prt sc
button on my keyboard but nothing printed out to my printer.
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Pressing the <PrtScn> key copies the entire display 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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I did press the prt sc button and opened MSpaint and clicked on edit but the
paste button wasn't in bold to let me paste it.
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Well it works fine for me.

Have you got any program running that might have reassigned some of
the keyboard functions?

Have you tried to past it into a word document to see if it just the
paint program?

You could also try using Window's "On Screen Keyboard"

Start|Programs|Accessories|Accessibility|On Screen keyboard

and click on the psc key there to see if that works (it does for me) -
if that works then it will show that there is a fault with your
physical keyboard.
 
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