write to paint from scratchpad

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charles cashion

Under XP, I could capture the screen ( control prtsc )
open paint, copy to paint ( control V ). Under Vista
nothing happens.

How can I copy the screen to paint?
Charles
 
charles cashion said:
Under XP, I could capture the screen ( control prtsc )
open paint, copy to paint ( control V ). Under Vista
nothing happens.

How can I copy the screen to paint?
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It's still the same, although you have got it a little wrong. It's just
PrtScrn on its own to put the whole screen into the clipboard, and it's Alt
+ PrtScrn to put just the active window into the clipboard. Pasting it into
Notepad with Ctrl + V is the same as before as well.

ss.
 
Synapse said:
It's still the same, although you have got it a little wrong. It's just
PrtScrn on its own to put the whole screen into the clipboard, and it's Alt
+ PrtScrn to put just the active window into the clipboard. Pasting it into
Notepad with Ctrl + V is the same as before as well.

ss.
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I have now tried it with and without ctrl and with alt.
Now I need to know if it is the clipboard or it is paint
or it is a dead key. I have now had this laptop for about
a week, and this is (probably) the first time I have
tried to use prt_sc.
--cc
 
It's a picture so it will not paste to notepad, but it does to paint.
Thanks for adding he Alt / active screen, hadn't used that in soooo long
 
charles cashion said:
I have now tried it with and without ctrl and with alt.
Now I need to know if it is the clipboard or it is paint
or it is a dead key. I have now had this laptop for about
a week, and this is (probably) the first time I have
tried to use prt_sc.
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It's possible that you have to press Fn to enable that key to work as
PrtScrn. You do not have to on my Thinkpad, but I cannot tell how your
keyboard is set out.

ss.
 
Vista doesn't have the clipboard viewer, but you can try wordpad. If it
isn't there and you can copy and paste from other places, odds are the key
isn't functioning.
 
Synapse said:
It's possible that you have to press Fn to enable that key to work as
PrtScrn. You do not have to on my Thinkpad, but I cannot tell how your
keyboard is set out.

ss.
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ss...
Give yourself a gold star. My previous laptop was a
Thinkpad (too). For that keyboard, ctrl-prtsc was the
correct combination.

I guess it was not a Vista problem this time!
Thanks,
--cc
 
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