Make screendump of the desktop using Print Screen
1 January 2001 by Snakefoot | Comment » | Trackback OffThe keyboard key "Print Screen" will copy the whole desktop to the clipboard and the keyboard combination ALT+"Print Screen"
will copy the content of the active window to the clipboard.
To see/edit the content of the clipboard open MSPAINT and do a Paste, and now you are able to edit the screendump and later save it into a file.
Note when saving a screen dump from a 16/32 Bit desktop then the file size will be huge when using the uncompressed file format BMP, consider to save the image in 16 or 256 colors by using "Save as..".
Note it is possible to install a MS PAINT Codecs addon which will allow it to save in GIF and JPEG which can compress the image and make the file size smaller.
Note one can also activate Print Screen screendump for DirectX games by setting this registry key:
To see/edit the content of the clipboard open MSPAINT and do a Paste, and now you are able to edit the screendump and later save it into a file.
Note when saving a screen dump from a 16/32 Bit desktop then the file size will be huge when using the uncompressed file format BMP, consider to save the image in 16 or 256 colors by using "Save as..".
Note it is possible to install a MS PAINT Codecs addon which will allow it to save in GIF and JPEG which can compress the image and make the file size smaller.
Note one can also activate Print Screen screendump for DirectX games by setting this registry key:
More Info MS KB Q173884[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE \Microsoft \DirectDraw]
EnablePrintScreen = 1
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Updated: 23 September 2007