Basis Printscreen question---ha

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Exactly how does the printscreen work in XP. I dont want
to cut and paste as these users do not have word notepad
etc... just an application that is running and they want
to printscreen right to the printer
 
Kevin said:
Exactly how does the printscreen work in XP. I dont want
to cut and paste as these users do not have word notepad
etc... just an application that is running and they want
to printscreen right to the printer
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Copy and paste is how it works. Press PrintScrn, it copies the whole screen
to the clipboard. Press Alt+PrintScreen, it pastes the active window
contents only.

You don't need Word, etc. Just paste into Paint. There is no provision to
printscreen right to the printer.

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Kevin said:
Exactly how does the printscreen work in XP. I dont want
to cut and paste as these users do not have word notepad
etc... just an application that is running and they want
to printscreen right to the printer
Click to expand...


Print-screen right to the printer stoppped functioning like that in DOS.
No versions of Windows (including 1.0 in mid-1980's) did this.
PrntScn and Alt-Print screen copies to clipboard.

If you must have this, I'm sure that you can either a) find a program by
by referral here, or by cleaver searching on Google, or b) get someone
to write a program to do this (in C, Visual Basic, or something else
which provides access to the Windows API). I shoudn't be hard to do,
but requires skills/knowledge.
 
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