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Offline Rick

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I have a Shift/Print Screen capture Question
« on: September 23, 2015, 11:59:09 pm »
What happened to holding the shift key and pressing Print function to capture the screen? then paste it into a Paint File

Anyone?

I get an error message says can not do...

Since when can they remove a feature already incorporated?

Alternatives and or how to add the feature back...
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Re: I have a Shift/Print Screen capture Question
« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2015, 01:18:10 am »
With my laptop I have to use FN+ALT+PRTSC to do a screen capture to paste it into Paint but Desktops don't have a FN key.

I've never had a Desktop but are you sure you were previously using SHIFT+ and not ALT+ ?
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Re: I have a Shift/Print Screen capture Question
« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2015, 01:39:04 am »
Hi, on my desktop ALT + Print Screen just copies the active window, whichever program is in the foreground (active), while Shift (or Ctrl) + Print Screen copies the whole of the visible window on screen. Hope this helps...
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Re: I have a Shift/Print Screen capture Question
« Reply #3 on: September 24, 2015, 02:20:17 am »
Yes, the FN+ALT+PRTC just copies what is active on my laptop as well and FN+CTRL+PRTC captures the lot, but I just tend to use the Snipping Tool in Win 7 to capture whatever I want to paste into a reply box.

Sometimes a full screen capture needs reducing to paste into a reply box because of size restrictions of a given forum.
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Re: I have a Shift/Print Screen capture Question
« Reply #4 on: September 24, 2015, 06:33:54 pm »
I use picpick, a versatile free prog that does a variety of screen grabs including scrolling. It also has an editor for adding shapes, arrows, text etc. http://ngwin.com/picpick
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Re: I have a Shift/Print Screen capture Question
« Reply #5 on: September 24, 2015, 09:09:48 pm »
Hi, Normally tab the print screen button, select control c and then open Paint place the cursor by mouse clicking on the paint opening page, and then select cont V to paste it . It should work. If not , there is some other problem
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