Problems cutting & pasting & screenshots?

FloFlo

Laptop (windows) won't cut and paste its just leaving a blank space when I paste. Its been doing this all day and I've just tried taking a screen shot and that won't work?

robt_2

Are yoo trying to take a screenshot of a video?

FloFlo

Nope, a web page, but it won't even copy and paste text just leaves a blank space.

inamabilis

have you tried copying and pasting text in notepad? Just to help diagnose the error

Donnie

Clean up your computer using a program such as http://www.ccleaner.com/ and reboot. See if that clears up the problem.
Then try again: Print screen > Open Paint(All Programs/Accessories/Paint) > Ctrl + V > Save in your desired format. You can also try to paste it into Microsoft Word or similar.

Domokun

Save the image as a PNG, not a BMP in paint. The colours and quality will remain, but the file size will be far smaller. Saving it as a JPG will lose the quality of the image, important if you're capturing small text or photographs.

II_D2_II

ona laptop dont you have to print screen different
using a fn key i believe?!

ukmike

ona laptop dont you have to print screen different
using a fn key i believe?!

Not on my Dell,seperate printscreen key.

Paul_Herring

1) Are you using the PrtScrn button (with or without Alt)?
2) What package are you trying to paste into? If you aren't using MSPaint, give that a try to test: Start > Run > mspaint<enter>