[aarhus2004]

PrintScreen Images.

Hi,

I hope I am not the only 'forever newbie' for whom the seeming mysteries of Clipboard Viewer and its offer to 'Save As' have eluded me for five years (5 years being the time I have used WinMe on my first ever comp.).

Yesterday I was doing a Thorough Scandisk in Safe Mode. I noticed that the only item in the Close Program box (Crtl|Alt|Del) was Explorer. In spite of this Scandisk kept restarting and several of the warnings popped-up (Scandisk has restarted 10 times because another program wrote to this disk - etc). What the hell?, I thought. What program, how can I find it? Admitting, finally, I did not know and did not know where to look (believe me I looked) I began attempting screenshots (using Screen Hunter)( here: http://www.wisdom-soft.com/products/...unter_free.htm) in Safe Mode, of the processes running as per Process Explorer (here: http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilitie...sExplorer.html) and including the Scandisk GUI. They were interesting. One worked. I attach it here below (ScreenHunter_2.gif). The rest were gibberish. Unfortunately I didn't know how I took the one which worked! I baby-sat Scandisk Thorough through several hours of fits and restarts to a completion. It was so boring!

I was offline. I had shut down as many processes as I dared in Process Explorer (why are there so many when the Close Program dialog shows only Explorer?) I had even stopped Outlook Express from checking for messages yet those fits and starts persisted to the bitter end. I had unchecked Quick Launch in the Task Bar right-click menu because I had read that these quick launch programs might possibly include a villain which maybe writing to the hard drive (see:http://www.mytechsupport.ca/support/...?TOPIC_ID=990).

Today I am approaching the Thorough scan differently. Everything is up and running and I am even doing 'stuff'.

As I write this Thorough Scandisk is plodding steadily through a much larger drive without warnings of it having been interrupted... without fits and starts. I am online, AVG (anti-virus Grissoft) is doing its thing AND I have been busy using Clipboard Viewer taking PrintScreen shots (see attached). I just took one - see #15 (ps15.gif). All 5.25MBs of it. Nothing visible in Image Preview. But in Irfan View (http://www.irfanview.com/) it shows and can be re-saved as a gif same name and now a reasonable size (110KB). And all my quick launch items are up and about on the Task Bar.

But this thread is about Clipboard Viewer.
1. Press Print Screen (on the keyboard).
2. Goto Clipboard Viewer (Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools) click on it. Your image will show.
3. Click File > Save As.
4. In the drop-down menu (Save file as type) showing, by default, Clipbrd Files(*.CLP) choose All Files(.*.).
5. In the File Name box (now showing .*.) highlight the .*. and type the name and extension (type) of file you want e.g. ps.gif/ps.jpg/ps.bmp etc (note that this applies to images not of text but of the screen on your computer. I have no doubt text can be saved but at this juncture I don't how.
6. In the right-hand pane click on where you want it saved to and it should flash once and will be where you want it. (see here:ps9.gif)

The Thorough Scandisk is finished. Without a hitch. How come? Sorry I have no idea. But attached is a gif of the event (pslast.gif) and the scandisk.log log!

"Microsoft ScanDisk for Windows

NOTE: If you use an MS-DOS program to view this file, some of the characters
may appear incorrectly. Use a Windows program such as Notepad instead.

Log file generated at 07:00 on 28/9/2005.

ScanDisk used the following options:
Thorough test

Drive Local Disk (H) contained the following errors:

ScanDisk did not find any errors on this drive."