[dew2]

Can I capture the current screen on my mini 9 with XP.

Screenshot?

[WolfKeeper]

Press the Prnt Scrn button. Then paste it into your program of choice (WordPad, Paint, etc.)

[dew2]

Thanks WolfKeeper.

[rrfranczak3]

Originally Posted by WolfKeeper

Press the Prnt Scrn button. Then paste it into your program of choice (WordPad, Paint, etc.)

never could get that to work...ever.....I just use snagit

[alpine101]

Surely it should be Ctrl or Shift -PrtScr. One does the whole screen, the other the current window.

[WolfKeeper]

Alt-Print Screen does the active window.

[rrfranczak3]

Originally Posted by WolfKeeper

Alt-Print Screen does the active window.

doesnt work for me, shift print scnr kinda does it gives the option to select all or whatever, but it doesnt work at the desktop level, with snagit I can capture my desktop, any active window, any screen..basically anything

[WolfKeeper]

*shrug* Then you're doing something wrong. It has worked for me on every sort of system running Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/2003/2008 Server whenever I've tried it. And I do it all the time for documentation and error tracking.

[rrfranczak3]

I dont get it either, I have tried alt/prtscrn,ctrl/prtscrn,shft/prtscrn,prtscrn,fn/prtscrn....nada...I could never get this to work, I cant even count how many PCs I have owned thru the years. professionally I have been a Systems Programmer for over 25yrs, starting back in the early 80's on an operating system called PICK..no longer around...I think the 1st PC I ever played with was the Victor 9000..remember them?, my boss back then also bought a Compaq portable that I used to bring home with me..it weighed a ton..then the IBM XT/AT came out..the 1st one of them I owned only had dual 5 1/4's, when I finally put in a 10Meg, yes Meg hard drive I thought I owned the world (lol)...it must be me..nowadays I just load snagit and assign it to ctrl/f1 and there you go..it works, I give up.....

http://oldcomputers.net/victor9000.html

http://oldcomputers.net/compaqi.html

check out the pics and details youll get a laugh....and still cant prt scrn to work....amazing isnt it or should I say pathetic

[Ex_Brit]

Just spotted this. I could never get it to work until I figured out it's Fn + Prnt Scrn, not sure why that is.

Edit: Correction now I know why...I have "Function Keys" installed in Start/All programs and had the option checked to force function keys to operate using the Fn key...

Now the Prnt Scrn works without the Fn key after unchecking it.