Screen Capture

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Duane bashed at the keyboard and said:
Is it possible to take a snapshot of whatever is on your
screen?
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Yes,

You can use the printscreen button, open your paint/image program and paste
into there. If you press alt + printscreen, you will take a screen shot of
the active window at that time.

Irfanview is also a good tool for this www.irfanview.com and it's free...
make sure you download the plug ins also

Enjoy :-)
 
I also would like to know if this possible. I have
searched the web and MS for this info and have not found
the answer.

Is it possible to take a snapshot with XP? I use to be
able to do this with my old computer under Windows 98.

Thanks.
 
Is it possible to take a snapshot of whatever is on your
screen?
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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.
 
Try this: press and hold ALT, then PRINT SCREEN. Open a
word processor and click PASTE. The image should be
pasted into the document.
 
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