What's that Icon?

[BeeJ]

XP Pro latest updates.
Windows Explore sometims shows an background icon in the right pane.
I cannot find any similarities to the file contents in a pane from
folder to folder that would help figure out what it is and why it is
there.
It is located in the bottom right of the pane.
It is about 1"x1" on my screen. i.e. not a small icon.
It is light blue and keeps at the bottom of the right pane as the
window is sized.
Text in the pane is over it.
I looks sort of like a four pointed compass with a square border.
What is it?
My other laptop with XP Pro latest updates does not show this icon.

 

[Nil]

XP Pro latest updates.
Windows Explore sometims shows an background icon in the right pane.
I cannot find any similarities to the file contents in a pane from
folder to folder that would help figure out what it is and why it is
there.
It is located in the bottom right of the pane.
It is about 1"x1" on my screen. i.e. not a small icon.
It is light blue and keeps at the bottom of the right pane as the
window is sized.
Text in the pane is over it.
I looks sort of like a four pointed compass with a square border.
What is it?
My other laptop with XP Pro latest updates does not show this icon.

Show us: do a screen capture, upload it to a web site, tell us the URL.

 

[BeeJ]

OK, step me through putting the captured image where all can see it.

 

[Nil]

OK, step me through putting the captured image where all can see it.

- hit Ctrl+Print Screen to capture an image of the whole desktop to the
clipboard. Paste it into Paint or other image editor. Crop it a bit -
we probably don't need to see the whole image, just the part you want
to show. Save it as a JPG format file.

As far as putting the image up on a site, I don't have time to get into
that. Check out some of the many picture sharing sites out there like
Photobucket, Flikr, Shutterfly, etc.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

- hit Ctrl+Print Screen to capture an image of the whole desktop to the
clipboard.

Just plain PrtScn is fine. No Ctrl is needed.

Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP

 

[Char Jackson]

Just plain PrtScn is fine. No Ctrl is needed.

I almost always use Alt-PrntScrn so I get just the active window
rather than the entire screen. I guess it depends on what I'm trying
to capture.

 

[Paul]

I almost always use Alt-PrntScrn so I get just the active window
rather than the entire screen. I guess it depends on what I'm trying
to capture.

I use a separate program here, because it has a "timer"
option, to delay taking a snapshot. If I need to stage
a menu, open it to a particular place and have some item
highlighted in it, I can capture that by using the timer.

Paul

 

[David H. Lipman]

I almost always use Alt-PrntScrn so I get just the active window
rather than the entire screen. I guess it depends on what I'm trying
to capture.

I use the area capture of Paint Shop Pro or XNview and get exactly the screen area I want.

 

[Nil]

I almost always use Alt-PrntScrn so I get just the active window
rather than the entire screen. I guess it depends on what I'm
trying to capture.

I've got at least 4 screen capture utilities on my computer -
Irfanview, GrabIt, Paint Shop Pro, and the ol' standby PrtScr. I use
Irfanview 98% of the time. Grabit is good for screen cap movies. Paint
Shop Pro takes too long to start up to bother with for this purpose. I
only mentioned PrintScreen because everybody has it - I never use it
myself.

 

[Nil]

PSP works just fine for me with no startup hesitation.

PSP 9 works fine for me, too, but the first time I start it up in a
session, it takes 5 - 10 seconds. After that it comes up much quicker.
Irfanview always comes up in less than a second. Also, Irfanview has
more screen capture options. PSP has a few options, like the timer and
multiple capture, that Irfanview has, but I never use those.

PSP is overkill for screen captures most of the time, unless it's
already up.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

PSP 9 works fine for me, too, but the first time I start it up in a
session, it takes 5 - 10 seconds. After that it comes up much quicker.
Irfanview always comes up in less than a second. Also, Irfanview has
more screen capture options. PSP has a few options, like the timer and
multiple capture, that Irfanview has, but I never use those.

PSP is overkill for screen captures most of the time, unless it's
already up.

I have both PSP and Irfanview installed here but I've never used
either for screen captures. I just use PrtScn or Alt-PrtScn, which
seems to meet my needs.

What am I missing? What's better about PSP and Irfanview for this?

Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP

 

[Nil]

What am I missing? What's better about PSP and Irfanview for this?

Captures are worth a thousand words:

http://rednoise.devio.us/temp/IView-cap1.png

http://rednoise.devio.us/temp/PSP-cap1.png

 

[Nil]

#5 Custom rectangle / Region Capture
Capture Area

I don't care. I already have those abilities with both the programs I
mentioned.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

The ability to select a specific area of the screen, not the whole screen

OK, thanks. I'll keep that in mind if I ever need to do that. I can't
remember ever wanting less than a whole window, though.

Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP

 

[Nil]

OK, thanks. I'll keep that in mind if I ever need to do that. I
can't remember ever wanting less than a whole window, though.

Really??? I can hardly remember wanting to capture more than a client
window, dialog box, or small portion of the screen. The capture is
usually to illustrate some particular detail, and it seems to me to be
a waste to use an image file that's 10 times the size it needs to be.

 

[Paul in Houston TX]

OK, step me through putting the captured image where all can see it.

Draw a picture of it, scan it, and upload to one of these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photo_sharing_websites

 

[Paul]

OK, thanks. I'll keep that in mind if I ever need to do that. I can't
remember ever wanting less than a whole window, though.

Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP

I do screen captures in GIMP, and can immediately edit the results,
by "cropping to selection" for example. In the latest version of GIMP,
they've well hidden the capture function. It was easy to find on
my old copy, but you won't know where it is on the latest one.
It's still in there.

Paul

 

[Char Jackson]

OK, thanks. I'll keep that in mind if I ever need to do that. I can't
remember ever wanting less than a whole window, though.

I'm pretty much the same way. About 10% of the time I want the whole
screen; about 88% of the time I want the active window, and perhaps
about 2% of the time I want less than the active window. The first two
are handled nicely by PrtScn, while the third is handled by dumping
the image into a photo editing program. For me, I haven't seen a need
for a 3rd party utility that does more when it comes to screen caps.

 

[Jon Danniken]

Really??? I can hardly remember wanting to capture more than a client
window, dialog box, or small portion of the screen. The capture is
usually to illustrate some particular detail, and it seems to me to be
a waste to use an image file that's 10 times the size it needs to be.

For me, it's a lot simpler to just PrtScrn and crop it inside of the
graphics app that I am already familiar with, like IrfanView.

Jon

 

[jim]

On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 13:17:26 -0400, in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,

PSP works just fine for me with no startup hesitation.

I use a digital camera myself..... <snicker>

No, I use PrtScr and PSP6. (I have PSP8, but it DOES take too long to
start up for this, where PSP6 is pretty much *bink*.)

jim