Screen Captures

[bkaras]

7:23 AM 3/2/2007

I used to be able to save a picture of what was on my monitor's screen by
pressing the print screen key. Now pressing that key initiates a screen
capture function. I can do that, but it's annoying and time consuming.

How can I do screen captures?

Thank you,

Barry Karas

PS I am posting this inquiry in the WinXP General newsgroup also.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

7:23 AM 3/2/2007

I used to be able to save a picture of what was on my monitor's
screen by pressing the print screen key. Now pressing that key
initiates a screen capture function. I can do that, but it's annoying
and time consuming.
How can I do screen captures?

I'm not sure I understand your question (you want to do screen captures
instead of screen captures?), but here's my standard post on the PrtScrn
key:

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

PS I am posting this inquiry in the WinXP General newsgroup also.

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[Bill Sharpe]

bkaras wrote:





I'm not sure I understand your question (you want to do screen captures
instead of screen captures?), but here's my standard post on the PrtScrn
key:

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

PirntKey 2000 indeed lets you define a hot key -- can be PrntScr, if
desired -- that will capture the desktop image and save it to a file.
Other screen capture utilities may have the same capability.

Bill