Screen Shot?

shezza2

Hi all, I would like to click on an external or internal hard drive and show up all the folders that are on that drive. Then I would like to take a screen shot for reference. Is that possible? and if so how is it done.

droopsnoot

If you're on Windows, you can just open up the explorer window to show all the folders, hit Alt-PrintScreen (the Alt key just means that it will print-screen only the active window, not the entire screen) then open your graphics package (paint, Paintshop, whatever you have), Edit menu, Paste. This should paste the screen-shot into the graphics package where you can save it as an image.

Only issue will be if you have more folders than will fit on the screen.

shezza2

Sorry should have mentioned, Windows 7 and Acer Laptop, cant find an
Alt-PrintScreen!!

lammy82

Alt is down on the left next to the space bar.

Print Screen (or "prt sc") is up near the top right.

It might be that you need to use a 'Fn' key to access the Print Screen button - e.g. if it shares a key with another function.

In that case you need to hold down the 'Fn' key at the same time, but this might mean you can't use 'Alt'. So don't worry about 'Alt' because without it you can just screenshot the whole desktop and then crop after you paste it into Paint or whatever.

Mirno

Why do you want to store text data as an image?
Run cmd
dir /ad /s > c:\foo.txt

Will call the "dir" - file system contents command, the /ad says "directories only please", and the /s is recursive (it goes into directories and does the same there too).
The "> C:\foo.txt" redirects the output, so instead of printing it to the screen it sends it to the file C:\foo.txt. Rename as needed.

jmc160

Windows 7 has a cool feature called Snipping Tool. Open up your Start menu and search for it, or find it in All Programs -> Accessories.


You can snip either the whole screen, whole window, a manual selection then email, save, copy/paste to Word or similar...


Also Mirno's option is good if you're just after a list of the folders you can refer back to

cookie365

A screenshot is a rubbish way to do this. Far better to save it in a text file or spreadsheet.

1. Open Windows Explorer and select the source drive or folder in the left pane.
2. Press Ctrl + A to select all items in the right pane.
3. Press and hold the Shift key, then right click on the selection.
4. From the context menu, choose Copy as Path.
5. Paste the list into Excel or Notepad or whatever.

Gyro

For easy screenshots - how about the free JING?

Big_Graeme

Hit print screen twice and paste it into something like Paint.net

shezza2

The reason I want a screen shot of folders is that I have a few external hard drives and would like to keep a reference sheet with each one.

shezza2

jmc160 wrote: »

Windows 7 has a cool feature called Snipping Tool. Open up your Start menu and search for it, or find it in All Programs -> Accessories.


You can snip either the whole screen, whole window, a manual selection then email, save, copy/paste to Word or similar...


Also Mirno's option is good if you're just after a list of the folders you can refer back to

Thanks jmc160, This is exactly what I need,and so simple.......Cheers