Thread: How do you get screenshots?

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.

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.

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

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

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.

PSP7 for free?....

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