print screen

[Gerald Cowles]

After I push the Print Screen key...
where does the picture go? Into what folder?

 

[purplehaz]

The print screen key does not print(at least not any more, maybe years ago
it did). When you hit the print screen key it copies a snapshot of the
screen and places it on the windows clip board. It can then be pasted into
any graphics program(such as paint) and then printed from in there. Hit
print screen, open paint, goto: edit, paste, then print the picture.

 

[Shootist]

Also if you hold the "Alt" key and hit the "Print Screen" key it will Copy
the "ACTIVE" window to the clipboard/book.

 

[Ken Blake]

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After I push the Print Screen key...
where does the picture go? Into what folder?

It goes into the clipboard, which is in memory, not into any
folder.

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.