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I have Windows XP Professional. According to the help files, I should be able to "take a picture" of the screen in Explorer. I'm trying to print the directory structure I've set up in My Documents from that screen. When I do ALT-Print Screen, I get nothing, so I assume I haven't turned something on that enables those keys; however Page Up and Page Down in the same set of keys work. I've searched all over the help files but I can't find a way to print the screen.
 
travelertrish said:
I have Windows XP Professional. According to the help files, I should
be able to "take a picture" of the screen in Explorer. I'm trying to
print the directory structure I've set up in My Documents from that
screen. When I do ALT-Print Screen, I get nothing, so I assume I
haven't turned something on that enables those keys; however Page Up
and Page Down in the same set of keys work. I've searched all over
the help files but I can't find a way to print the screen.
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after using print screen, have you pasted it into an application like word?
 
travelertrish said:
I have Windows XP Professional. According to the help files, I should be able to "take a picture" of the screen in Explorer. I'm trying to print the directory structure I've set up in My Documents from that screen. When I do ALT-Print Screen, I get nothing, so I assume I haven't turned something on that enables those keys; however Page Up and Page Down in the same set of keys work. I've searched all over the help files but I can't find a way to print the screen.
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ALT-PRINT will copy the screenshot to the clipboard. You have to open
Paint or another picture editor and select Edit > Paste or Press
CTRL-V to see/edit/print the picture.
"How to Add a "Print Directory" Feature for Folders in Windows XP"
(http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=321379)
 
When you press <Alt> + <Print Scree> you are taking a picture of the active
window. If you want to print this, the easiest way is to open a new
document in MS Word and then press <Ctrl> + V. This will paste the image
into the document. You can then manipulate the size and position of the
image.


travelertrish said:
I have Windows XP Professional. According to the help files, I should be
Click to expand...
able to "take a picture" of the screen in Explorer. I'm trying to print the
directory structure I've set up in My Documents from that screen. When I do
ALT-Print Screen, I get nothing, so I assume I haven't turned something on
that enables those keys; however Page Up and Page Down in the same set of
keys work. I've searched all over the help files but I can't find a way to
print the screen.
 
travelertrish said:
I have Windows XP Professional. According to the help files, I should be
Click to expand...
able to "take a picture" of the screen in Explorer. I'm trying to print the
directory structure I've set up in My Documents from that screen. When I do
ALT-Print Screen, I get nothing, so I assume I haven't turned something on
that enables those keys; however Page Up and Page Down in the same set of
keys work. I've searched all over the help files but I can't find a way to
print the screen.

The "Prnt Scrn" key copies the desktop to the clipboard. Alt-Prnt Scrn
copies just the active window. From there you must paste it into an imaging
program. Windows resident Paint will work. (edit paste)

If you would like a nice freeware directory printer try this.

http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptdirprn.asp

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travelertrish said:
I have Windows XP Professional. According to the help files, I should
be able to "take a picture" of the screen in Explorer. I'm trying to
print the directory structure I've set up in My Documents from that
screen. When I do ALT-Print Screen, I get nothing, so I assume I
haven't turned something on that enables those keys; however Page Up
and Page Down in the same set of keys work. I've searched all over
the help files but I can't find a way to print the screen.
Click to expand...

The ALT+Print Screen takes the picture, but you then must open the picture
in an imaging program (like MS Paint) before you will see it and be able to
print the image.

After you press ALT+Print Screen, open MS Paint and select Edit/Paste on the
toolbar. The image will appear in Paint and you can print or work with the
image from there.
 
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travelertrish said:
I have Windows XP Professional. According to the help files, I should
be able to "take a picture" of the screen in Explorer. I'm trying to
print the directory structure I've set up in My Documents from that
screen. When I do ALT-Print Screen, I get nothing, so I assume I
haven't turned something on that enables those keys; however Page Up
and Page Down in the same set of keys work. I've searched all over
the help files but I can't find a way to print the screen.
Click to expand...


No, there's nothing yo uneed to turn on.

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
(http://www.sharewarejunkies.com/00zwd2/printkey2000.htm).
 
Oooohhhh, okay. Now I've got the SCREEN. What I'm really looking for is the whole directory, a list of the files and subdirectories in that directory. Do I need to download an .exe to accomplish this task? Thanks so very much, all of you.
 
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travelertrish said:
Oooohhhh, okay. Now I've got the SCREEN. What I'm really looking for
is the whole directory, a list of the files and subdirectories in
that directory. Do I need to download an .exe to accomplish this
task? Thanks so very much, all of you.
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OK, a very different question. PrintScreen isn't usually a good
way to do this because the directory can be big enough that it
doesn't fit on one screen.

Here are three ways to print a directory:

1. Go to a command prompt and issue the command

dir [drive:folder] > c:\tempfilename (you can use any name and
put it in any folder you want)

Then open notepad, open tempfilename, and print it from there.


2. Go to
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q321379
and follow the instructions there.


3. Download and use any of the several freeware/shareware
utilities that can do this, such as the popular
http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptdirprn.asp
 
Greetings --

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

From the command prompt (Start > Run > Cmd.exe), simply change to
the desired directory and type "dir > filelist.txt" or "dir > lpt1,"
just as you used to do in DOS. Any of the switches for the DIR
command (type "dir /?") will work with this command, if you wish to
modify the output. You can then subsequently edit the resulting text
file using NotePad, WordPad, Word, etc.

Alternatively:

HOW TO Add a Print Directory Feature for Folders in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=321379


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travelertrish said:
I have Windows XP Professional. According to the help files, I
Click to expand...
should be able to "take a picture" of the screen in Explorer. I'm
trying to print the directory structure I've set up in My Documents
from that screen. When I do ALT-Print Screen, I get nothing, so I
assume I haven't turned something on that enables those keys; however
Page Up and Page Down in the same set of keys work. I've searched all
over the help files but I can't find a way to print the screen.
 
I have same kind of problem. In full screen mode, I want to capture the
screen as it is. I was not able to copy/paste in MSPaint/MS word.
alt-print screen works. but print-screen in full screen mode(dos) does not
work.
Please help ne

OS : Windows XP Professional
 
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