SCREEN CAPTURE

[MARK BROWN]

CAN ANYONE TELL ME HOW TO CAPTURE THE CONTENTS OF MY
DESKTOP AND SAVE IT AS A BIBMAP FILE SO I CAN EMAIL IT.
I CAN HIT PRINTSCREEN AND SAVE IT TO THE CLIPBOARD , BUT I
DONT HOW TO SAVE IT AS A BITMAP IMAGE.

 

[JAX]

First, turn off your Caps Lock when posting!! Then capture your screen by
pressing the PrtScn button to capture the whole screen or Alt+PrtScn to
capture the active window. Open Paint, in the edit drop-down choose paste.
Alternately, open Word or any other application that will accept graphics.

HTH, JAX

 

[Guest]

Open MSPaint, rt click and choose paste. click on
file> "save as" choose a name and choose the type file
under it.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

First of all, please unstick your CapsLock key. Posting in all
caps, as you have done, is the Usenet equivalent of shouting, and is
considered very rude. More importantly, posting in all caps makes the
post very hard to read, further reducing your chances of getting help.

Pressing the <PrtScn> key copies the entire display to the
clipboard. Pressing <ALT>+<PrtScn> copies only the active Window to
the clipboard. 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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CAN ANYONE TELL ME HOW TO CAPTURE THE CONTENTS OF MY
DESKTOP AND SAVE IT AS A BIBMAP FILE SO I CAN EMAIL IT.
I CAN HIT PRINTSCREEN AND SAVE IT TO THE CLIPBOARD , BUT I
DONT HOW TO SAVE IT AS A BITMAP IMAGE.

Please don't yell at us. We can hear you if you type normally, in
mixed case.

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 E-mail it.

 

[T.C.]

Press the Print Scrn key, then open Paint (Start button/All
Programs/Accessories/Paint). When Paint opens click the Edit menu, then
click Paste. Then click the File menu, click Save As, and you have a drop
down menu with choices for File Type. If you're going to email the image
file, I suggest that you don't save it in Bitmap format. A BMP file of your
Desktop could be a few megabytes, which could entirely fill the recipient's
mailbox, causing other mail to bounce back to the sender, and if the
recipient doesn't have a DSL or Cable internet connection will take too much
time to download. If you save to JPG format, the file will probably be only
about 150k more or less depending on the content of the desktop,will
download much faster, and keep the recipient happy. If for some reason the
Bitmap (BMP) format is needed, the recipient can open the JPG file in Paint,
click the File menu, click Save as, and save as Bitmap file type.