Taking Screenshots

Often people need to, or are asked to, post a screenshot of a problem they are having.

To take a single, simple screenshot you can:

Hit your print screen (Prt Scr) button to capture the whole screen.
Hit Alt+PrintScreen to capture the current active window only.

Hitting the Prt Scr button loads what it sees into memory, now you can paste it into a paint program to edit and save. You can use Microsoft Paint to do this, for example. Its free and included with Windows. IrfanView is a free program that allows you to paste in screenshots as well as resize and compress them. It can be downloaded at http://www.majorgeeks.com/IrfanView_d4253.html

Look for the edit-paste option OR simply hitting the ctrl and v buttons (ctrl v) at the same time in your favorite paint program (with the main screen highlighted) and the image you just captured will appear.

Screenshot capture programs are available, we use Winsnap to take many screenshots you see at Majorgeeks: http://www.majorgeeks.com/WinSnap_d5102.html