Screen Print

[Guest]

Does windows XP have a built-in Screen Print utility? Hitting Alt+Print Screen does nothing.

 

[purplehaz]

You didn't finish the process. You have to push the print screen key or
alt+print screen, then open any program that will accept graphics such as
word, or ms paint, and then goto: edit, paste. This pastes the screen shot
into the graphics program and then you can print it from there. This is the
way is been since win95. The print screen key is misleading as it doesn't
really print anything, just copies a shot of the screen to the windows clip
board to be pasted into a graphics program.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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Does windows XP have a built-in Screen Print utility? Hitting
Alt+Print Screen does nothing.

Yes, it does something, but what it does isn't visible.

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).

 

[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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[Gene K]

The Printscreen key copies the entire screen to the Windows Clipboard while
Alt/Printscreen copies only the active window again to the Clipboard. You
either have to open the Clipbook Viewer to see it or paste the snapshot into
a graphics capable program such as Paint or Word.

--
Gene K

Does windows XP have a built-in Screen Print utility? Hitting Alt+Print

Screen does nothing.

 

[Plato]

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

Other options:

http://www.gadwin.com/printscreen/
http://www.wisdom-soft.com/downloads/downloadfiles.htm