When I "print screen" it only captures about 1/3 of the screen. Make it stop.

Factual Questions
1

I have a Dell something or other, windows 8 (ugh), with a big screen. However, I can’t get it to take a screenshot of the entire screen, just a small section in the middle. What’s up with that? How do I make it stop?

2

What are you doing, specifically, to take the screenshot? PrtScn by itself, win+PrtScn, alt+PrtScn?

Also, has it worked fine in the past and only became weird recently, or has it never worked right?

3

How exactly are you doing the print screen?

Print Screen alone should capture the entire screen, copied to the clipboard (you can paste it into paint to save it).
Alt + Print Screen should only capture the active window (again, copied to clipboard).
Window Key + Print Screen should capture the entire screen and will save it as a PNG in your pictures folder in addition to copying it to the clipboard (this feature was added for Windows 8 - it’s not in earlier versions).

Do any of these options work as advertised?

4

Ok, interesting. I was just hitting prtscrn while in Picasa (which I use for my photo management) and it only does partial screen shots. But then if I go to paint and paste (which I’ve never tried) it shows me the whole screen shot. So maybe some sort of picasa strangeness.

5

I did a little poking around on google. It looks like picasa can have problems with screen settings that are anything other than normal, like if you set the text size to 150%. Setting these back to normal will allow picasa to take proper screen shots.

But then if you’ve increased the text size it’s probably because you had a hard time reading 100% size text on your video resolution, so that solution seems a bit less than useful to me. Better to just use the windows screen shot capability in that case.

I don’t know if there’s an update to picasa that may fix this for you or not.

6

Don’t forget the Snipping Tool if you want better control over how much of the screen you are copying.

7

I concur. Once I found this built-in Windows feature I never went back.

8

Please to explain.

9

I have an HP running Win8.1 and the Window key+prt sc works but it also creates a folder named Screenshots to put the pic in.

10

Click on your Start button and in the search area start typing snipping tool. You will see it as a program. Launch it. It’s a very simple tool for capturing sections of your screen.

11

Cool! Thanks!
And yeah, I have my font set bigger, because it’s teensy at normal size. Good that there’s a work around.

12

Thanks I will check it out.

13

I never bother to use PrntScrn any longer. Download Screen Hunter, a small*** free*** program that lets you capture any or all of a screen into a jpeg file. Works like a charm, and very easy to use.