I’ve seen many times where a shot of a screen image is taking from the PC itself. How is it done? Does XP have a setting where it can be done or is it seperate software?
For instance, if I want to save an image from a game showing a score or hidden area to email to someone, how would I do it?
I can’t really think of a time I’d need to do it, or any practical reason other than I want to know how it’s done.
Hit ALT-Print Screen (the button should be to the right of the F12 along the top of the keyboard).
Press the print screen button on your keyboard?
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Once you do that, you can paste the picture into any photo manipulation software and do with it what you will.
Press Alt + PrtSc (to copy the active window only) or Shift + PrtSc (to copy the entire desktop).
This will capture the screen image to your clipboard. You can then go to Word or an image processing program and paste the image that you have captured.
That works. However, there is software that lets you do a fancier job if you need it. Hitting alt-printscreen captures the image. You can then paste it into another document like a Word document or e-mail message that supports images. That’s really all there is to it.
You should be able to paste the image into Word (I use Open Office) without extra software.
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Thanks everyone. That should get me started.
A minor nitpick, but you don’t need to hold down Shift to capture the entire screen; just hit PrintScrn by itself.
Nothing to add, just a note: If your keyboard has an F-Lock key, you might have to disable it for the PrintScreen key to work.
Then you can set the desktop screen print as your desktop “wallpaper” for hours of fun.
Why can’t it work when you’re playing a DVD? I guess it’s for copyright, but is there a way you can print the window when it’s the DVD playing?
I don’t know about your PC, but my elderly Mac PowerBook uses a hardware MPEG decoder to do DVD playback, so the images that appear onscreen during DVD playback are apparently superimposed on the regular computer video rather than being passed through it and displayed by it. I took some screen shots of a DVD movie and opened them to view them, and found that when I un-paused the DVD movie the screen shots updated along with the movie 
and when I stopped the movie the screenshots displayed blank grey where the movie image had been. My WAG is that your PC is doing something similar. (I have no idea if the same rules apply to faster computers that rely on software DVD decoders or not).
Some playback software will have a feature that will allow you to take screenshots. I know that in Windows Media Player, there’s a certain key combination that allows you to save the current frame as a .jpg file (I can’t remember the combination, but a quick google search should turn it up)
Oh! I googled it and found it. I guess it’s sort of because of what A3Hunter said. If you fiddle with the mpeg playback settings you can alt+printscreen like any other window. Or in older Windows Media Players versions it’s supposedly ctrl+i. But I have the newer one.
Meant to say thanks, Jayn_Newell. And sorry AHunter I screwed your name up.
Do a screen print of your computer, or better yet, your best friend, sibling, or SO. Set it as your wallpaper, then hide the icons. 
Word of advice: be careful of taking a screenshot of an open IE window–I did that to a friend, and he ended every instance of IE running on his computer to try and fix the problem. He had to restart his computer to get it to work properly after that, since Windows has become so IE dependant. Of course, this may be the kind of effect you’re looking for…
Oh, and don’t forget to hide the taskbar.
No, no, no, that’s not it at all!
What you do is, after taking that screen shot, copy it over the network to the Mac sitting next to it. Take a screenshot of the Mac Desktop. Make the PC screenshot the Desktop Picture on the Mac. Download and install Duality4 or ShapeShifter and apply an XP-Luna theme (or if it’s an OS 9 Mac, use Kaleidoscope and an XP Scheme). Set the Finder prefs to not show drives (X) or drag them off-screen (9). Go back to the PC. Copy the Mac Desktop screenshot and set it as the PC’s WallPaper. Using the Control Panel, hide as many PC icons as you can. Drag the taskbar to the top of the screen and download and deploy an Aqua skin to make the Start Menu look like an Apple and to make the items in the Tray enlarge on mouse-over like the Dock.
Then, the coup de grace: switch the cables for the monitors and put the PC keyboard and mouse in front of the Mac and vice versa.
