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Old 4th June 2002 | 19:47
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fobotcso
 
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Tony, give the Win2K Print Screen routine a try before branching out. I bet you have succeeded in capturing your screen images with PrtScrn but haven't known how to retrieve them.

Print Screen by itself captures the whole screen and puts it on the clipboard. If you go to Word, Windows Imaging or some other third party application you can then "Paste" the clipboard into an open file. That is, in Imaging, click on File/New and choose the file type and colour options. When you've got a clean blank window Click on Edit/Paste.

With Alt/Print Screen you can do the same but you only capture the active window without all the other garbage on the Desktop. I prefer this as its much cleaner.

The "Clipboard" is a Virtual thing and you won't normally see it in the Program menu unless you have third party software to let you look at it directly instead of using an Application.

Go on play with it, you can't hurt anything! (As the Bishop said to the ...

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