Simpson's lost mind

Vlim · 03-20-2010, 12:29 PM

A nice, but undervalued option on Windows PC's is the old 'Print Screen' button. In the old days, this would dump the screen contents on the printer, but since Windows got a foothold the 'printscreen' dumps the screen contents to the clipboard. Open a graphics editor, like MS Paint and press 'ctrl-V' (paste) and hey presto, your screen dump is now a graphics file.

With 'ALT-Printscreen' you can dump the active window to the clipboard, copy it to an editor and save it in any format the editor supports.

03-20-2010, 12:29 PM	#38
Vlim Moderator Lifetime LugerForum Patron Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Europe Posts: 5,053 Thanks: 1,036 Thanked 3,990 Times in 1,205 Posts	A nice, but undervalued option on Windows PC's is the old 'Print Screen' button. In the old days, this would dump the screen contents on the printer, but since Windows got a foothold the 'printscreen' dumps the screen contents to the clipboard. Open a graphics editor, like MS Paint and press 'ctrl-V' (paste) and hey presto, your screen dump is now a graphics file. With 'ALT-Printscreen' you can dump the active window to the clipboard, copy it to an editor and save it in any format the editor supports.