Sections · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Capture a Screen Shot in Windows Home Articles & Tutorials Feedback Forums Newsletter Private Messages Recommend Us Search Stories Archive Submit Article/News Surveys Top 10 Web Links Your Account Your Forums Profile Search Search Related Links · More about Windows · News by osodani A screenshot is like taking a snapshot of what is appearing on your monitor. You can then save this picture and e-mail it, print it, -- anything you can do with a regular picture. Why would this be useful? If you've ever tried explaining what's appearing on your screen to a technical support person, or even a friend or colleague, then you'll appreciate how difficult that can be. A much easier solution is to take a screenshot of what you're experiencing, and then e-mail it to the person helping you. You can even post your screenshot on the Help2Go Q&A forum so that you can get quicker answers! Most read story about Windows: Stop the ''Messenger Service'' Pop-up Ads Article Rating How do you do it? In Windows, taking a screenshot is as easy as hitting the PrintScreen key on your keyboard. Can you find it? It's hidden away in the upper right hand corner, just after the F12 key. Whenever you hit that key, Windows takes a snapshot of your current screen and saves it to the clipboard. Alternatively, if you want to take a screenshot of just your current window, you can do that, too! First, make sure that the window you want to take a picture of is active by clicking on it. Then, hold down the Alt key and hit PrintScreen. Windows will take a snapshot of just the current window! Average Score: 5 Votes: 11 Please take a second and vote for this article: Next, you'll need to save the picture. To do so, open up your favorite image editor. Our favorite is IrfanView. If you don't have an image editor, don't worry. Every copy of Windows has a program called Paint pre-installed. You can find it in Start | Programs | Accessories | Paint. Once you've loaded your image editor, click on the Edit menu and choose Paste. Voila! Your screenshot should now appear! Click on the File menu, then choose Save to save it into a file. Now you can email it, print it, or post it to our message boards! Cast my Vote! /contributed by osc Options Page Printer Friendly Send to a Friend Threshold 0 Thread Oldest First Refresh Post Comment The comments are owned by the poster. We aren't responsible for their content. Re: Capture a Screen Shot in Windows (Score: 1) by osc on Friday, March 07 @ 14:17:21 EST (User Info | Send a Message) http://www.sodani.com We'll have a Mac version of this article on the home page soon. [ Reply to This ] This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. All logos and trademarks in this site are property of Help2Go © 2003 by Oscar Sodani Powered by PHP-Nuke Web site engine's code is Copyright © 2002 by PHP-Nuke. All Rights Reserved. PHP-Nuke is Free Software released under the GNU/GPL license. Page Generation: 0.362 Seconds