PrintScreen in XP-Pro

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A friend is trying to document software issues and needs to print the screen
in XP-Pro. Is there any way to do that. the trad. <cntrl> print scrn doesn't
work for her.
 
Michael said:
A friend is trying to document software issues and needs to print the
screen in XP-Pro. Is there any way to do that. the trad. <cntrl>
print scrn doesn't work for her.
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Print Screen followed by pasting in something like Word, Paint, etc --
doesn't work?
 
If you can't paste your screen into a program, you might want to try Gadwin
Printscreen. It is a small, easy, free program that I use all the time. Here
is the site: http://www.gadwin.com/products.htm?prnscr
This program captures the screen and saves it as a photo to a specified
folder where it can be cropped or edited, whereas Winxp Printscreen just
copies the screen to your clipboard.
I hope this helps.
Glenda
 
PrtScr puts an image of whole Desktop into the Clipboard, it must be then
pasted (Ctrl+V) into an imaging program.
Alt+PrtScr takes an image of only the active window.
 
Michael said:
A friend is trying to document software issues and needs to print the
screen in XP-Pro. Is there any way to do that. the trad. <cntrl>
print scrn doesn't work for her.
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It doesn't work (the way you apparently think it works) for anyone using
Windows.

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).
 
A friend is trying to document software issues and needs to print the screen
in XP-Pro. Is there any way to do that. the trad. <cntrl> print scrn doesn't
work for her.
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If she has a keyboard with an F-Lock key, have her press that key. Then
press the needed keys for screen capture. PrtScn for capturing the entire
desktop. Alt+PrtScn to capture the active window only.

As others have mentioned already, this action places the image into the
clipboard. From there, your friend will need to paste to a program that
supports graphic data. Word or Paint are two examples of programs that
could be used.
 
Michael said:
A friend is trying to document software issues and needs to print the screen
in XP-Pro. Is there any way to do that. the trad. <cntrl> print scrn doesn't
work for her.
Click to expand...


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/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;173884

(The "traditional [sic] <ctrl> print scrn" also copies the entire
desktop, just as it's always been. The <Ctrl> key has no affect.)


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