How to Take a Screenshot in Microsoft Windows
Do you want to take a screenshot without installation of a program in Microsoft Windows? Learn how to take screenshots of your desktop or internal computer problems, so that the people at Microsoft and other troubleshooting services can help you solve your problems much faster and more efficiently.
In Windows XP
1.Find out what key(s) on your keyboard you need to press to take a screenshot. It may be just pressing PrintScreen, PrtScrn, or pressing Fn or Ctrl then pressing another key.
2.Press the screenshot keyboard shortcut that your keyboard uses to take a screenshot.(On the page that you want to take a screenshot.)
1.Open Microsoft Paint or Microsoft Word. To do this, click Start > All Programs > Accessories > Paint. Click inside the white part of the screen.
2.Go to the Edit menu and click Paste or you can press and hold "Ctrl" and tap V. Then you may crop if you like.
3.Click File > Save As. In the box that pops up, change the "Save As Type" to PNG or JPG. Type in a file name for your image. Choose a place to save, like the Desktop, and click save.
4.If you want to send your image to somebody, simply attach the .png file that you just saved to an email and send it along. Alternatively, you can upload it onto the internet by visiting a site like TinyPic.com and uploading it.
In Windowws Vista
1.In Windows Vista (except in Home Basic), there is a tool called the Snipping Tool.
* To open it, click on the start menu, type snip, then hit enter (the latest version of Windows Vista updates the search results as you type each letter).
2.Click on Snipping Tool.
3.The Snipping Tool opens, and a white mask is applied on the screen. In the drop-down menu for the 'New' button, choose from a free-form snip, rectangular snip, window snip, or full-screen snip.
4.In free-form snip mode, draw around the area you want to be captured. Drag a rectangle in rectangular snip mode. For window snip mode, select the window you want to capture. In full-screen mode, just selecting it from the drop-down menu makes the capture.
5.The snipped image is then opened within the Snipping Tool, but is also copied to the Windows clipboard for use in other applications.
In Windows 7
If you want to take screenshots in Windows 7 it comes with little program called Snipping Tool, which can be found in the Start Menu/All Programs/Accessories.
You can take a screenshot of the entire screen, a window or just a selection of the screen, that you select.
In Windows 7, you can also take a screenshot by pressing Alt, Print Screen. You must hold down alt when you press print screen. I think this is easier to take a screenshot than the snipping tool if you want the whole screen.
# If you want to take screenshot of just the active window (usually the one that's in front of all the others and activated), press "Alt - Print Screen". This means, you should hold down the Alt key and then press the Print Screen key.
# A quicker way of accessing Microsoft Paint can be achieved by pressing the Windows key (Between "Ctrl" and "Alt" on many keyboards") and "R", then typing 'mspaint' in the box that appears.
# Many laptops, to conserve keyboard space, have mapped the "PrtSc" key as a primary or secondary function on a shared key. To take a screenshot with "PrtSc" mapped to a key as a secondary function, you will need to locate your notebook's function key (usually labeled "Fn" and located along the bottom row) and engage it before touching "PrtSc."
# Depending on your version of Windows, Paint will allow you to save the screenshot in different formats.
* BMP is the default option (a lossless uncompressed format)
* PNG is a lossless compressed format which also supports transparency
* JPEG is a lossy, compressed image format, specifically developed for photographic images. For these images, it allows for the smallest file size with a good quality.
* GIF just supports a limited number of colors. This format is outdated and shouldn't be used anymore.
# If you plan on putting your screenshot on a website, be sure it does not exceed a suggested size limit
# It is also possible to pause an internet video and make a screenshot of it. In this way you can create a still from a video, e.g. from Youtube.
* As a rule your video player allows to make the video full screen and high quality, and to stop at the frame you want.
* This capturing method may not work if you play the video from version 11 or newer from Windows Media Player.
* You can use additional software to simplify process of screenshoting. For instance the portable freeware Screenshoter is very easy to use or the free tool http://lightshot.skillbrains.com/ which can capture any area (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Okkhhz0fJ3Y) to clipboard with one click. Another suitable software is http://www.techsmith.com/download/snagittrial.asp it can even shoot video. But SnagIt is commercial tool with price about $50.
# For some computers all you have to do is to press the print screen button, then the picture goes straight to your hard drive.
Note:If you have problems with the snipping tool the method followed Windows XP can be followed
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