How do you take a screen shot of what's on my screen without a camera?

Question

I've tried cressing Ctrl+PrintScreen|SysRq, but if it does actually take a screen shot, where does it go... I can't find it. There's a trick to do it, what is it?

Answer 1

Well, after you press it open up something like Paint and Ctrl+V (paste) it.

Answer 2

Just press the Print Screen | SysRq button. It copies exactly what you see to the clipboard. Then, just open Paint or any image editing program and press CTRL+V to paste it. If you want to take a screenshot of just the current window, press ALT+Print Screen.

Answer 3

When you press Print Screen the screen shot goes into a memory area called the Windows Clipboard. Simply open a picture processing program and do a Ctrl+V (or select Edit/Paste) and the screen shot will appear in the picture program's workspace. Then you can "Save As" a bitmap, .jpg, or whatever.

Answer 4

When you do the Printscreen , it puts a copy in the clipboard. Bring up your notepad, word processing or other software and paste it.



Windows xp handles printscreen and cntl+printscreen the same, you get a copy of your entire desktop, windows and background.

Answer 5

It places the screen shot into your clipboard...



Open Paint (start => run => "mspaint" => ok)



editb => paste



Note: if you want to capture an image for the full screen, press the button alone, if you want to capture the active window only, press +



Enjoy ;)

Answer 6

Use A Program Called Power DVD Or Win DVD Player On Your Computer

Answer 7

You just need to press PrintScreen and go to word or what ever program you are using and paste...



Not CTRL + PrintScreen...

Answer 8

You don't need to press Ctrl



Print Screen takes a snapshot of the screen and just puts it on the clipboard. From there you can paste it into any app.

Answer 9

Press printscreen button, open paintbrush from

start -> programs -> accessories -> paintbrush



press Ctrl+V



save it.

Answer 10

Hit Print Scrn; it *Copies* the desktop.

- Then open up Adobe Photoshop or MS Paint (on a PC)

- Then File / New / Enter

- *Paste* into the new file.

Your desktop will appear. You can save and edit it in the graphics program.

Answer 11

do not press ctrl, press print screen sys rq ONCE, go to paint brush> edit>paste. you may have to increase the limiting size of bitmap page(just press ok when a messege pops up after you press paste i.e if any message appears...)

Answer 12

Once you have pressed the button, you have placed the screen shot on your CLIPBOARD... in other words, you have to PASTE it somewhere.



Open up any application where you can paste and edit. MS Office programs, photoshop, photodraw... Paint etc.



You can even press PASTE in your email... this should paste the picture.

Answer 13

it gos into your clip board. and you cant really see it unless you either download a little thing called clip board veiwer or just after you paste it on another document. word pad or note pad or paint. or there are some free software that will allow you to save it as a pic anywhere you like. i use screen hunter, and it was free, not sure now been a while.

Answer 14

Ehm..

Get one of the latest versions of Gadwin Printscreen. Free link http://bitly.com/1k4a0Wm

You should try it

Answer 15

hit print screen then open up a program like paint, photoshop or word and then hit ctrl v or paste



you will get it then

Answer 16

you aonly need to hit "print screen" the screen then get temp stored in the clipboard....in order to see the image, you must paste it into someting like a paint programsuch as PSP, PhotoShop, or even MS Paint

Answer 17

It copies the image to the clipboard. You need to open paint - or something similar and paste the photo (CTRL-V)

Answer 18

For Windows it is Alt+Print Screen.



Pops it onto the clipboard and you can then paste it into any photo, art or word processor program.

Answer 19

Gadwin PrintScreen 3.5 free download

Answer 20

just click "print screen." this copies the screen shot to your clip board, you just have to paste it somewhere, like in a .paint file or wherever you like to view or edit pictures.

Answer 21

You need to hit your print screen button, then go to word or some other program and paste it there. Try that. It will work.

Answer 22

you just press prt scrn or alt + prt scrn (if you just want the active window) afrer doing so open up paint or word and press ctrl + v

Answer 23

just press the print screen button, then go to paint and paste.. it should be right there.



if not, i dont know what to tell you

Answer 24

I use this program and you can download it for free



http://www.download.com/Screenshot-Pilot/3000-2094_4-10343204.html





There are a lot of other decent screenshot programs on the net. Just search for freeware and screenshot.

Answer 25

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utilities.htm#31

Answer 26

edit then paste is one way