Capturing partial screenshots in XP?

[Chiefcrowe]

Does anyone know of a good program like the Win7 snipping tool that lets you select a section of your screen to copy and paste into another program such as outlook?

 

[BlueWeasel]

Greenshot

 

[boochi]

print scr key, paste in paint, select area and cut, open new paint and paste.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Thanks BlueWeasel!


I would do this but i need it for someone who doesn't want to go through all those steps since they need to do this a lot.

print scr key, paste in paint, select area and cut, open new paint and paste.

 

[jobz]

Last free version of FastStone Capture still works great:

http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=775

 

[oynaz]

Or Jing.

 

[corkyg]

Or MWSnap.

 

[pauldun170]

Just a reminder that Ctrl+Print Screen = captures active window only.
I only say this because I know plenty of folks who have installed or sorts of crap just to take a screen shot of the active window.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Thanks. I actually need just a small portion of the window.

 

[Engineer]

Just a reminder that Ctrl+Print Screen = captures active window only.
I only say this because I know plenty of folks who have installed or sorts of crap just to take a screen shot of the active window.

Actually, <Alt><Prtscr> captures the active window. <CTRL><Prtscr> captures the entire desktop.

 

[corkyg]

Thanks. I actually need just a small portion of the window.

Then why not just crop it with Irfanview, Gimp, or something similar?

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Thanks everyone! I tried greenshot and it works really nicely so thanks again BlueWeasel!

 

[Diogenes2]

Actually, <Alt><Prtscr> captures the active window. <CTRL><Prtscr> captures the entire desktop.

Actually, ' PrtScn ' captures the entire desktop ...:biggrin:

 

[Engineer]

Actually, ' PrtScn ' captures the entire desktop ...:biggrin:

I'll be darned, it does. Didn't realize that. I guess from my DOS and older Windows days when PrtScr actually printed the screen to the printer, I didn't realize.

 

[pauldun170]

Actually, <Alt><Prtscr> captures the active window. <CTRL><Prtscr> captures the entire desktop.

Whoops...brain fart when I typed that originally. You are correct.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

I wanted to make it a bit faster for someone who has to do this repeatedly.

Then why not just crop it with Irfanview, Gimp, or something similar?

 

[cheez]

Does anyone know of a good program like the Win7 snipping tool that lets you select a section of your screen to copy and paste into another program such as outlook?

Get a Mac. The screen capture that comes with the OS X is amazingly good. It trumps the crap out of the snipping tool from Win7. No comparison.

 

[kleinkinstein]

It ain't as good as Greenshot, by a long shot. Yeah, get a crApple! Too funny!

 

[Diogenes2]

Get a Mac. The screen capture that comes with the OS X is amazingly good. It trumps the crap out of the snipping tool from Win7. No comparison.

Oh, yeah! The Op needs a screen cap tool for Windows.. I'm sure they will run out and buy a Mac instead..

 

[TheRyuu]

http://puush.me/

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Even if it is better, I wouldn't get a mac just for that.

Get a Mac. The screen capture that comes with the OS X is amazingly good. It trumps the crap out of the snipping tool from Win7. No comparison.