Prt Sc going directly to the printer

[Patti]

Sorry I don't have more info--- helping out a friend... he's running XP
Home, and for some reason when he tries to do a screen capture, it goes
directly to the printer instead of to the clipboard. He's not running any
DOS stuff. It'll do this if he is just trying to capture the desktop. Any
suggestions on where to begin?

Thanks!

 

[ANONYMOUS]

Check if there is some program like this:

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,22960,00.asp

This program actually prints what is on the sceen. It disables the
screen capture facility. So it looks like your friend has installed
something like this and forgot about it.

hth

 

[Rock]

Sorry I don't have more info--- helping out a friend... he's running XP
Home, and for some reason when he tries to do a screen capture, it goes
directly to the printer instead of to the clipboard. He's not running any
DOS stuff. It'll do this if he is just trying to capture the desktop. Any
suggestions on where to begin?

Thanks!

Do some clean boot troubleshooting to see what program he has loaded is
doing this.

How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310560

How to perform advanced clean-boot troubleshooting in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=316434