How do you get screenshots?

**Oneironaught** · 06-03-2007 03:21 PM

I've never been able to figure out how to capture a picture of what's on my computer screen. I see people doing it all the time. For example: THIS POST.

What must I do to be able to do that? I'm running Windows XP and Internet Explorer.

**Merlock** · 06-03-2007 03:24 PM

The Print Screen button for a screenshot of your full screen.
Or Alt+Print Screen for a screenshot of the currently focused window.

After pressing, open up a graphical editor, the simplest and often fastest being MSPaint under Windows, and click Ctrl+V. Then you save it as is or move the boundaries (talking about MSPaint here) to cut off parts or just do whatever before saving.

**Oneironaught** · 06-03-2007 03:29 PM

Ah, OK. That's working for me. Thanks for your time

**Shodan** · 06-11-2007 06:27 PM

When you hit "shift", and "print screen" it copies what's on your screen to the "pasteboard" and you can then paste the complete "screen shot" into just about any applications that has "cut, paste, copy" in it's menu.

Very helpful for sending error reports caught on screen to tech support people. Given that the error didn't lock up your computer in the first place.

Luck
Shodan

**Raven12** · 06-17-2007 04:55 AM

I use paint shop pro 7 for that. I was lucky enough to have downloaded the full version right before Corel bought the company and no longer offered older versions for free. I think it was right around when PSP10 came out.

**Ynot** · 06-17-2007 04:24 PM

PSP7 for free?....

nuts
here I am, approaching day 2000 of my 30 day trial, and it's free

**.:Rob:.** · 06-17-2007 06:07 PM

How come the shift print screen thing doesn't work on my pc? It works on my dads but not mine

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Edit: Sorry, my bad - it did work

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**Merlock** · 06-17-2007 06:13 PM

Yes, but...there's no need for Shift. Print Screen alone makes a whole-screen screenshot. Alt+Print Screen makes a screenshot of the currently focused window. Shift isn't related.

**Hazel** · 07-02-2007 02:24 PM

Yeah, there's no need to hit shift. Just hitting print screen works fine.

IZ · 07-02-2007 02:40 PM

I'm using Vista and all those techniques arn't working for me?

**ninja9578** · 07-03-2007 06:20 PM

Originally Posted by IZ

I'm using Vista and all those techniques arn't working for me?

Some of the previous posts are misleading. For some reason Windows doesn't support simple screen capture, it instead captures it to the clipboard, requiring you to then Paste it into Paint. If Paste is greyed out then close Paint and reopen it and try again.

**Merlock** · 07-03-2007 06:25 PM

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Some of the previous posts are misleading. For some reason Windows doesn't support simple screen capture, it instead captures it to the clipboard, requiring you to then Paste it into Paint. If Paste is greyed out then close Paint and reopen it and try again.

Pressing Print Screen isn't supposed to launch MSPaint or any such. It indeed copies it to the copy buffer, as was stated in the previous posts. So, nothing misleading.