PrintScreen key

[Guest]

Please can somebody tell me how to activate the PrintScreen key? Mine does not work.
Thank you!
Xprodata

 

[Familie Oor]

xprodata schreef:

Please can somebody tell me how to activate the PrintScreen key? Mine does not work.
Thank you!
Xprodata

Press on it.

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Have you checked in the Clipboard to make sure it's not working?

 

[JAX]

Hi,

Print screen does not work with XP the way it works with some other systems.
If you press the PrtScn key it captures an image of the current screen to
clipboard. If you press Alt+PrtScrn it captures the active window only. Once
either is done, you must open an application that will accept image files.
MS Paint, Word, Wordpad, etc. Then select paste. That will paste the image
to the application. From there, you can print it.

HTH, JAX

 

[Ben]

Please can somebody tell me how to activate the PrintScreen key? Mine does not work.
Thank you!
Xprodata

You can press printscreen key to put a desktop image to the
clipbook=system memory, when you later open an application, Paint for
example, you can click "paste" to paste the image into it.

 

[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


Bruce Chambers
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[Ken Blake]

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Please can somebody tell me how to activate the PrintScreen key? Mine
does not work. Thank you!

Well, chances are that it works fine, but you're just not aware
of hwow to use it.

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]

Thank you so much! You were exactly correct. After spending two hours enetring dat for homework I was afraid to move from my open window to the clipboard. Thank you so much!
Xprodata

 

[Gene K]

Thank you so much! You were exactly correct. After spending two hours
enetring dat for homework I was afraid to move from my open window to
the clipboard. Thank you so much! Xprodata

One problem with the Windows Clipboard is that it will only keep one entry
at a time (a subsequent entry overwrites the previous entry). There are free
utilities such as Clipboard Buddy
[http://www.download.com/Clipboard-Buddy/3000-2384-10170486.html] (will
retain as many as twenty entries until you delete them) or Yankee Clipper
III [http://www.download.com/3302-2384-10222598.html] (will keep up to 200
entries) which, as you can see, get you free of the "copy and paste it plus
save it somewhere right now" requirement of the Windows Clipboard.
Gene K

 

[Ken Blake]

In

Thank you so much! You were exactly correct. After spending two hours
enetring dat for homework I was afraid to move from my open window to
the clipboard. Thank you so much! Xprodata

You're welcome. Glad to help.