Taking a screenshot

Shadow WarChief · Post by **Shadow WarChief** » 2004-09-03 10:52pm

I recently just set up my bran spanking new-PC in my dorm room, and I've got a question: how do I take screenshots?

I knew how to do it on a mac, but now that I've got a PC, I'm a little bit in the dark. So what do I do?

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-09-03 10:57pm

Hit CTRL-Print Screen, which will copy the contents of the screen into the clipboard and then you can use some graphics program to save it.

Lord of the Farce · Post by **Lord of the Farce** » 2004-09-04 01:13am

phongn wrote:Hit CTRL-Print Screen, which will copy the contents of the screen into the clipboard and then you can use some graphics program to save it.

Or just "Print Screen" by itself.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-09-04 01:19am

Print Screen = capture whole screen
Alt + Print Screen = capture active window only

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-09-06 01:17am

phongn wrote:Hit CTRL-Print Screen, which will copy the contents of the screen into the clipboard and then you can use some graphics program to save it.

You mean ALT Printscreen. CTRL Printscreen is the same thing as just hitting printscreen. It captures everything instead of just the active window.