Print Screen

[John Jobb]

On the keyboard there is one with "Print Screen/ SysRq" on it.

I want to make a copy (screen shot) of what I'm doing and exactly what my
screen and/or selected window looks like to put in email, word docs, etc.

I pressed the key. The pointer blinked off and on.

I pressed Alt + Print Screen/ SysRq. The pointer blinked off and on.

I pressed Shift + Print Screen/ SysRq. The pointer blinked off and on.

Uh..... did it work? Is there a pic file somewhere?

Any help,

thanks

 

[Jason Haynes]

Yes, it's stored on the clipboard. Open paint and press ctrl+v to paste it
there. Prtscrn captures the entire desktop. Alt+prtscrn captures the active
window.

 

[Squire]

I hope you didn't do all those at once,

The print screen key alone will copy everything on the screen to the
clipbrd.
The Alt key + printscreen will copy the current window to the clipbrd.
To see what you copied, type clipbrd on the Run line and hit Enter.

 

[Jim Macklin]

You can also paste into WORD, or other photo editing
programs such as PhotoShop, Elements, IRFanview. You can
get CAPTURE from www.analogx.com which will allow you to
capture the screenshoot (whole or active) to a file as a
jpeg.


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| I hope you didn't do all those at once,
|
| The print screen key alone will copy everything on the
screen to the
| clipbrd.
| The Alt key + printscreen will copy the current window to
the clipbrd.
| To see what you copied, type clipbrd on the Run line and
hit Enter.
|
| | > On the keyboard there is one with "Print Screen/ SysRq"
on it.
| >
| > I want to make a copy (screen shot) of what I'm doing
and exactly what my
| > screen and/or selected window looks like to put in
email, word docs, etc.
| >
| > I pressed the key. The pointer blinked off and on.
| >
| > I pressed Alt + Print Screen/ SysRq. The pointer
blinked off and on.
| >
| > I pressed Shift + Print Screen/ SysRq. The pointer
blinked off and on.
| >
| > Uh..... did it work? Is there a pic file somewhere?
| >
| > Any help,
| >
| > thanks
| >
| >
|
|

 

[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 (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/search/preview.aspx?PR=1&scid=kb;en-us;Q173884


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[David Candy]

Just to add to the others. Outlook Express can't paste bitmaps due to a stupid design decision made 9 years ago. As bitmaps is what windows use internally it is a bizarre decision. However it can Insert bitmaps from file.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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On the keyboard there is one with "Print Screen/ SysRq" on it.

I want to make a copy (screen shot) of what I'm doing and exactly
what my screen and/or selected window looks like to put in email,
word docs, etc.

I pressed the key. The pointer blinked off and on.

I pressed Alt + Print Screen/ SysRq. The pointer blinked off and on.

I pressed Shift + Print Screen/ SysRq. The pointer blinked off and
on.

Uh..... did it work? Is there a pic file somewhere?

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).

 

[John Jobb]

Well, I certainly didn't expect this much response. I definately appreciate
it.

 

[Alex Nichol]

On the keyboard there is one with "Print Screen/ SysRq" on it.

I want to make a copy (screen shot) of what I'm doing and exactly what my
screen and/or selected window looks like to put in email, word docs, etc.

That has not done a direct print since the days of DOS and specific
printers, using IBM control characters at that.

With Windows, it puts the image in the clipboard; you can then paste it
into any program supporting Graphics; eg Word or even Paint.

Alt-PtrScn copies just the 'active' window

If you want to capture a sequence of such images you probably need a
clipboard extension program, like Clipmate from www.thornsoft.com

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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Well, I certainly didn't expect this much response. I definately
appreciate it.

You're welcome. Glad to help.