Print Screen -how?

castle96

there is a button on my keypad       Prt Scr/Sys Rq    but this does nothing
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John_Gray

Google and Wikipedia are your rather more rapid friends... 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print_Screen

castle96

Pressing the Ctrl key in combination with Prt Sc turns on and off the "printer echo" feature.  NOPE. Also tried PrtSc and Alt again, nothing

Johnmcl7

Pressing the print screen button will copy the current screen to the clipboard while holding alt and printscreen will copy the current active window.  You can then paste it as an image into a document, mspaint etc.

castle96

sorry to be dumb - where is clipboard?

Neil_Jones

castle96 said:

sorry to be dumb - where is clipboard?

Invisible to all intents and purposes.

If you press Print Screen (nothing else) and then go into Paint, then paste into there, that's what Print Screen is for.  You can save that and if you need to mail it to somebody or print it or save it or eat it or whatever you need to do.

Mickey666

castle96 said:

sorry to be dumb - where is clipboard?

Clipboard is an imaginary thing to help people understand the various copy/paste functions.

When you 'copy' something, that copy is placed on the 'clipboard'.  When you 'paste' something, it's the content of the clipboard that is copied. The 'print screen' key effectively copies the screen to the clipboard, from where it can then be 'pasted' into other applications.

Personally, I tend to use Microsoft's 'Snipping Tool' for copying areas of the screen because it allows more control over the area to be copied, so I almost never use the 'PrtScn' key, but each to their own.  That's the thing with PCs - there tends to be many ways of doing essentially the same thing and different people favour different methods, but there's no really right or wrong way if the end result is what the person is aiming to achieve.

castle96

thanks all - got it Xxx

EssexExile

I press the Windows button and PrtScn and it magically appears in "Screenshots" under "Pictures" in File Explorer"

Were_Doomed

EssexExile said:

I press the Windows button and PrtScn and it magically appears in "Screenshots" under "Pictures" in File Explorer"

That's a new one for me - thanks. Just tried it ... it actually takes a screenshot of all screens, not just the screen/window in focus.

Edit: I find just pressing PrtScr saves the screenshot ... no need for the Windows key.