Print Screen

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My print screen key does not capture the screen. I have tried alt
print screen and it does not work either. Using XP pro. Is there some
register that has to be set up??
TonySper
 
TonySper said:
My print screen key does not capture the screen. I have tried alt
print screen and it does not work either. Using XP pro. Is there
some register that has to be set up??
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What application are you pasting the captured screen into?
 
PrintScrn saves the image to the clipboard. Open your favorite graphics
editor and 'paste' the image. Voila!
 
If your keyboard acts like mine, if the F Lock key is on, then Print Screen
will not work. Turn off the F Lock and see if that makes a difference.
 
TonySper said:
My print screen key does not capture the screen. I have tried alt
print screen and it does not work either. Using XP pro. Is there some
register that has to be set up??
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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 at
http://www.sharewarejunkies.com/00zwd2/printkey2000.htm
 
Fri, 6 Jan 2006 11:25:18 -0500 from TonySper
My print screen key does not capture the screen. I have tried alt
print screen and it does not work either.
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Unless something is very wrong, they do.

What happens when you PrtSc and then try to paste into a graphics
application?
 
I am trying to paste it to Microsoft Word. When I do the past it puts
the last item I pasted to the clipboard but not what I used when I
pressed the PrintScreen button. Can you explain to me what the F Lock
key is?
I have a Num Lock and a Caps Lock as well as a Scroll Lock but do not
see a F Lock key.
TonySPer

If your keyboard acts like mine, if the F Lock key is on, then Print
Screen
will not work. Turn off the F Lock and see if that makes a difference.
 
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