Urgent. How to get screen shot in XP?

[seeker]

Very urgent!
How do I get a screen shot in Win Xp?

Any help greately apreciated, many thanks in advance!

 

[Mr Webname]

Not sure but I can get one for you with a little screen capture prog I have if you want to PM me with details.

 

[stevey]

press the print screen button on your keyboard then go to mspaint or a picture program and press ctrl V or go to edit and the paste

 

[GeorgeKGeorgeK is verified member.]

www.irfanview.com is what I use for screen captures (can also capture just a single window, etc.). You can then use it for cropping the resulting image, before saving. Options--->Capture to start the process in that program.

 

[GiantDomains]

"PrtScn" (print screen) button on your keyboard.

This captures it. Then you have to open Paint, or Photoshop, and Paste it.

 

[seeker]

Mr. W helped me so much, I cant thank him enough. He actually did the capture for me.

But for the future it would be interesting to learn.

I keep pressing the 'prtscr' button, but where is the file, what is it called??? etc....?
thanks!

 

[stevey]

Mr. W helped me so much, I cant thank him enough. He actually did the capture for me.

But for the future it would be interesting to learn.

I keep pressing the 'prtscr' button, but where is the file, what is it called??? etc....?
thanks!

when you press the print screen button it doesnt save it to anywhere, it basicly just copies the image of your screen into memory (like doing a copy in ms word) you need to open a program such as ms paint and the go to edit => paste then the image will appear

 

[seeker]

thanks.

it looks like it kind of works!

 

[David G]

.....I keep pressing the 'prtscr' button, but where is the file, what is it called??? etc....?thanks!

Print Screen is probably the least understood function,though it is basically very simple what with key copying and then pasting. I have been using PC's heavily since my Apple 2e circa 1982 and first IBM XT about 1983 and just figured out how to use last mo thanks to another dnf member!

Confusion is caused by the key being mislabeled by IBM as PrintScrn (and everyone waits forever for it to print the screen) when it should have said CopyScrn.

 

[Whois-Search]

Someone asked me to do a screenshot of the windows XP network login the other day.

Had to use another machine and remote desktop to it in the end - then print screen

 

[theparrot]

Print Screen is probably the least understood function,though it is basically very simple what with key copying and then pasting. I have been using PC's heavily since my Apple 2e circa 1982 and first IBM XT about 1983 and just figured out how to use last mo thanks to another dnf member!

Confusion is caused by the key being mislabeled by IBM as PrintScrn (and everyone waits forever for it to print the screen) when it should have said CopyScrn.

It was not a mistake, in the non GUI days, it did print the screen to the the printer. It was with Windows and GUI interfaces it changed to 'snapshot' the screen to a buffer/clipboard instead. Microsoft changed the function of it.

 

[David G]

Used DOS for many yrs and was a few yrs late in finally going to Windows95 and never recall it ever working by it sending the screen to the printer.