Re: PrintScreen key

From: Gene K (genekRE_at_MOVEolivianc.net)
Date: 07/25/04 

Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 10:49:13 -0400

xprodata wrote:
> Thank you so much! You were exactly correct. After spending two hours
> enetring dat for homework I was afraid to move from my open window to
> the clipboard. Thank you so much! Xprodata
>
> "Ken Blake" wrote:
>
>> In news:C4527B8E-A0B8-48A0-ACB8-46845B385B8F@microsoft.com,
>> xprodata <xprodata@discussions.microsoft.com> typed:
>>
>>> Please can somebody tell me how to activate the PrintScreen
>> key? Mine
>>> does not work. Thank you!
>>
>>
>>
>> Well, chances are that it works fine, but you're just not aware
>> of hwow to use it.
>>
>> 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).
>>
>> --
>> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
>> Please reply to the newsgroup
One problem with the Windows Clipboard is that it will only keep one entry
at a time (a subsequent entry overwrites the previous entry). There are free
utilities such as Clipboard Buddy
[http://www.download.com/Clipboard-Buddy/3000-2384-10170486.html] (will
retain as many as twenty entries until you delete them) or Yankee Clipper
III [http://www.download.com/3302-2384-10222598.html] (will keep up to 200
entries) which, as you can see, get you free of the "copy and paste it plus
save it somewhere right now" requirement of the Windows Clipboard.
                               Gene K 

-- 
Gene K

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