PrtScn Key not working

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What type of kyeboard do you have? If it is a MS keyboard with an F Lock
key in the upper right corner, try turning off F Lock and then use Prt Scrn.
If that works, this site might be of interest -http://jtsang.mvps.org/flock.html.
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It should be note that the PrtScn key will not send the "screen" to
any printer. It will just take a "snapshot" (ie: image) of the
current screen(s) and place it into the Clipboard. Then, you need to
use Paint, or Word, and paste this image to a file.
 
Lazaro said:
How can I restore this key function?
It doesn't get anything.
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Yes it does. It just doesn't do what you expect it to.

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 at
http://www.sharewarejunkies.com/00zwd2/printkey2000.htm
 
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