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on my computer, if I press PrtSc button
Is this suppose to take the screenshot of my desktop or windows?
Where does the screenshot save as?
 
Hy said:
on my computer, if I press PrtSc button
Is this suppose to take the screenshot of my desktop or windows?
Where does the screenshot save as?
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After taking a screenshot, open Paint or similar program, and select
Edit|Paste. It will paste a copy of the image onto the page which you
can then edit, save, whatever.
 
Print Screen captures the entire desktop to the clipboard; Alt+Print Screen
captures the active window. You have to open a graphics application then
paste the clipboard contents into it to manipulate and save the image.
 
Hy said:
on my computer, if I press PrtSc button
Is this suppose to take the screenshot of my desktop or windows?
Where does the screenshot save as?
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Hy

If you press Print Screen, it will copy the entire image on the monitor to
the clipboard. If you hold down the ALT key and press Print Screen, it will
copy the active window on the screen to the clip board. You then need to
open an imaging program like Windows Paint and select Edit/Paste to see the
image. You can then save this image as a .jpg or other type of image file to
a folder. Windows paint is in Start/All Programs/Accessories/Paint.
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Hy said:
on my computer, if I press PrtSc button
Is this suppose to take the screenshot of my desktop or windows?
Where does the screenshot save as?
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PrtScr takes the whole screen, Alt-PrtScr the current active window

It goes in the clipboard ready to paste into any application that
supports graphics - even Paint
 
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Hy said:
on my computer, if I press PrtSc button
Is this suppose to take the screenshot of my desktop or windows?
Where does the screenshot save as?
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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).
 
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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


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