Screen Shot

[LeAnn]

I know that on a Mac you can take a screen shot (or
picture) of your desktop and what is on it. Can that be
done on a PC?

 

[Tedd Riggs]

Just open a program like Wordpad and then find the screen you want to take a
picture of and hit the PrtSc key, (top row usually close to the right side)
and just use PASTE and you have a screen shot

 

[Chris Lanier]

Hi, You press the Print Screen button on your keyboard then open an Image
Editor and paste the picture in.

 

[anonymous]

launch your Help & Support Center
search for PRINT SCREEN

 

[Guest]

also if you hit alt+print screen that will take a picture
of just the active window, not the whole desktop

 

[Alex Nichol]

I know that on a Mac you can take a screen shot (or
picture) of your desktop and what is on it. Can that be
done on a PC?

Hit PrtScr and then use Paste in a graphics program (even Paint).
Alt-PrtScr will get just the currently focussed window

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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I know that on a Mac you can take a screen shot (or
picture) of your desktop and what is on it. Can that be
done on a PC?

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.

 

[Tedd Riggs]

Ken,
Are you saying that you can just do a PrintScreen or ALtPrintScreen and then
open and paste it into a program ? The only way I can ever get it to work
is to first have something like WordPad open and then it seems to copy with
no problems.
Hey I would love the old DOS days of print screen especially when you
register a new Microsoft program and have to jump from the ABOUT screen with
the PID number over to the on-line registration. That is unless you are good
at remembering 16-25 digit numbers...

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Ken,
Are you saying that you can just do a PrintScreen or ALtPrintScreen and then
open and paste it into a program ?

Sure.


The only way I can ever get it to work
is to first have something like WordPad open and then it seems to copy with
no problems.

That's totally unnecessary. As a matter of fact, if you have
WordPad open before you do the printscrn, the printscrn image
will show WordPad, which is probably not what you want.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Are you saying that you can just do a PrintScreen or ALtPrintScreen and then
open and paste it into a program ? The only way I can ever get it to work
is to first have something like WordPad open and then it seems to copy with
no problems.

Yes you can. I just did - then opened a graphic program (Paint Shop Pro
in my case) and did Edit - Paste as new Image