any way to take a screen shot in XP?

[NaturalChiller]

Is there a way to take a screen shot in win XP?

 

[wuboy]

press "print scrn" on ur keyboard

it goes to ur clipboard
then paste to ur favorite image editor (ie photoshop)

 

[Abzstrak]

funny, I figured the same, but I just tried it and it doesn't work on at least this XP box....

 

[wuboy]

works for me...


i wonder if u can recompile the kernel to enable it...

JUST KIDDING!

it should work tho, i dont think there is any reason m$ would disable it if it was used since win98...

 

[jkukowsk]

Try Screen Print Gold

 

[Derango]

Works on my laptop, running winXP Pro. How else do you think I get the Friday Desktop Thread Screenshots?

 

[LordEdmond]

print screen , then paste the result into another app

ctrl printscreen will do the currnet window

 

[RalfHutter]

No, "alt+print-screen" will do the current window.

 

[Abzstrak]

oh well, I tried it on another few boxes and it worked.... but still doesn't work on one of them... weird... oh well, who cares.

L8R

 

[Valhalla1]

works like a god-damned f-ing champion here

 

[MrPhelps]

I am using xp pro and just did one in word pad and it worked, I tried one in note pad and it didn't work.

 

[Athlex]

A friend of mine had a similar problem (which I've never seen on my own systems) using Windows 98. The only significant difference between his system and mine was that he had AOL installed. Might be a longshot, but could that be it?

 

[rainypickles]

how do you take screen shots of mpgs and avis in wmp8.0 or 6.4? the regular screen shot works, everything else i can paste into paint shop. except that the video that is playing leaves a big black spot where the image should be. the funny thing about this is that when i move the picture window over the video window, i can see through the picture (where the video image should be) and watch the playing video.

solutions?

 

[Escalade]

<< how do you take screen shots of mpgs and avis in wmp8.0 or 6.4? the regular screen shot works, everything else i can paste into paint shop. except that the video that is playing leaves a big black spot where the image should be. >>


The reason you get the black square is, that Window's Media Player (et. al.), are using the video overlay. The built-in Windows screen capture, won?t do overlays ? you?ll need something like the HyperSnap program...

http://www.hyperionics.com

 

[rainypickles]

thanks for the info, Escalade.

meanwhile, while fiddling with it and trying to get it to work, i found that if you open two instances of wmp, the screenshot will work for one of the videos but you get the black box for the other one.

i also found in options->performance->advanced to disable use of overlays. then the screenshots work. what is the advantage of using overlays?

 

[Escalade]

<< ...what is the advantage of using overlays? >>


I believe it?s a speed issue... maybe someone else can expand on this?

 

[x1xBugsBunnyx1x]

WinXP corp, prnt/scrn works in Photoshop7 & M$ Greetings both.. Good Luck

 

[Dreadogg]

and in word

 

[LongCoolMother]

prnt screen works on me too. win xp pro here, but formatting to win2k in 20 min.