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[Ent]

If you want to take a screenshot of a single program, but for privacy reasons don't want to show the rest of the screen, press and hold ALT as you press the print screen button.
Then paste it as normal; only the window you were using at the time will appear.

Alternatively, if you have Windows Vista or newer you can use the Snipping tool to specify which area you want to copy.

 

[TechGuy]

This is a great tip. I use CTRL+PrintScreen all of the time to capture only one window. It's especially useful when you have the monitor set at a high resolution and don't want to capture the whole 2000+ pixel screen.

 

[LauraMJ]

That's a very handy thing to know, for sure.

For webpages, I've found this tool is handy:

I use this: http://www.picozu.com/pages/shooter with my Firefox browser for taking a screenshot of a webpage. This nifty add on sits in my add-on bar at the bottom of my browser so it's always handy. It allows you to snip a small area of the screen (anywhere on the screen) or will take a screenshot of the entire page, not just the visible part.....there's been many times I want to have a screenshot of MORE of the webpage than what I can get in the visible part of my browser window and this tool allows me to take a screenshot of the whole thing all at once.

 

[Boothbay]

I just use Print screen and it opens the Clipboard view of it...from there you can send it to most graphic programs..ie Paint and trim it there. I never used Cnt+print..

 

[stantley]

I always thought it was Alt Print Screen to capture the active window and Print Screen or Ctrl Print Screen to capture the whole Desktop.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print_screen

 

[TechGuy]

I think you are right, Stantley. I was just using it this morning and had to redo it.

 

[hewee]

I use the last free version of "FastStone Capture" and it will let you capture the active window.
It's Version 5.3 (February 12, 2007) so old but still works great.
http://www.oldapps.com/fast_stone_capture.php?old_fscapture=17&ModPagespeed=noscript

 

[Ent]

I always thought it was Alt Print Screen to capture the active window and Print Screen or Ctrl Print Screen to capture the whole Desktop.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print_screen

Ooops!
And I can't edit the tip.

 

[TechGuy]

Corrected.

 

[Ent]

Now I remember why CTRL + PRTSCRN was in my head.
Text interfaces, copying the screen as text with regular PrintScreen, and as a bitmap with CTRL.
I wonder whether there's anything that actually implements that any more.