error message - print screen

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Ben Lurkin

Rumor or fact.

I have heard that when an error message box appears, there is a way to
email a copy of it to someone who can help figure out what it means.

I was told that just pressing "print screen" will save the message box. But
where???? How is it recovered to put in an email message.

WindowsXP and IE6 are in use.

A big thank you to anyone who can help.

Ben
 
Hitting the print screen button is the equivalent of "Copying" it.
Then you can open paint and Paste it there and save the picture to your HDD.

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With the error message the active window, press ALT-PrtScn buttons and
the system copies the active window to the clipboard. Paste the image
into Paint, Word, Wordpad, or some other program that can handle
graphics. Save the file. Email the file.

If you press PrtScn, you get a copy of the entire desktop. Normally
that will be a huge image and huge file which may be too big for email
(and certainly more information than req'd to be sent).

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

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Ben Lurkin said:
Rumor or fact.

I have heard that when an error message box appears, there is a way
to email a copy of it to someone who can help figure out what it
means.

I was told that just pressing "print screen" will save the message
box. But where???? How is it recovered to put in an email
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message.


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 or other
graphics programs). You can then save it and attach it to an
E-mail message.
 
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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


Bruce Chambers

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