[unstresst]

ever wanted to save a view of a webpage?

when you have something on your screen you want to save as an image file:

--- 1: hold the "shift" key down and 2: tap the "PrtScrn" key
--------see Pic----
once that's been done, open an image viewer---one that allows you to 'paste' from clipboard and 'paste' the saved screenshot in.

[brindle]

are you talking about this key?

[unstresst]

Originally Posted by brindle

are you talking about this key?

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Yes....THAT key
sorry..i looked at my keyboard instead of the pic...same key though

[tj416]

Actually all you need to do is tap the Print Screen button and then paste it ,there is no need to hold down shift.

[cheese]

Yep ^ wat he said

[ChuckE]

The ALT key alters the copying of the screen (to the buffer) to be just the active window.

That is, PrtScr copies the ENTIRE screen.
and Alt+PrtScr copies just the top-most, the active window.

While PrtScr will do what you want, it may be so much that you then need to crop down your captured area to just have the selected portion.

Whereas Alt+PrtScr may be just all you want or need.

In neither case will the mouse cursor be captured. If you want to capture the cursor then you really need a tool that will do that, like IrfanView (HIGHLY recommended!).

[tj416]

Thanks for the info ChuckE. I didn't know that.

[unstresst]

Originally Posted by tj416

Actually all you need to do is tap the Print Screen button and then paste it ,there is no need to hold down shift.

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...oh well yea...that's even better......thanks

[ChuckE]

SHIFT doesn't do anything for the PrtScn anyway.

[unstresst]

Originally Posted by ChuckE

SHIFT doesn't do anything for the PrtScn anyway.

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....Where were you folks two months ago ??.......y'all let me go all this time using 2 keys.........shameful.
...yea, yea, I know......you're just beside yerself with guilt aren't ya?

[s43]

Originally Posted by tj416

Actually all you need to do is tap the Print Screen button and then paste it ,there is no need to hold down shift.

LOL, I knew that! No need to hold shift key

[hewee]

You can also just get MWSnap, screen capture utility and do even more and do it better.

http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html

[Cosmic]

Originally Posted by hewee

You can also just get MWSnap, screen capture utility and do even more and do it better.

http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html

Exactly how does MWSnap work? I tried downloading this before and the file didn't work. That site said "MWSnap does not require installation and does not need any special dlls, drivers or system files which can mess up your system"

But the last version I got appears to want to do some sort of installation, how do you call it, some of them want to be in the system tray???

Trying to figure out how it work? Don't like installing programs I don't really understand. I looked at a bunch, really would like to just do the basics but do a direct save out as a JPG to a ZIP disk instead of having to edit it a bit myself.

[hewee]

I have the same "Current stable version: 3.00.0.74, 06 Jul 2002" that is there.

Did you download the right one.
http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/files/MWSnap300.zip

I just downloaded it from the link here and it works just find.

Now you need Winzip or a unzipping program to unzip the the zip. It has files and that it it so make a folder for it so you can keep it all in one place.