In Windows XP
1.Press the "Prnt Scrn" button
2.Open Microsoft Paint. To do this, click Start > All Programs > Accessories > Paint. Click inside the white part of the screen
3.Go to the Edit menu and click Paste or you can press and hold "Ctrl" and tap V. Then you may crop if you like
4.Click File > Save As. In the box that pops up, change the "Save As Type" to PNG or JPG. Type in a filename for your image. Choose a place to save, like the Desktop, and click save
5.You have now successfully taken a screenshot! If you want to send your image to somebody, simply attach the .png file that you just saved to an email and send it along. Alternatively, you can upload it onto the internet by visiting a site like TinyPic.com and uploading it
In Windows Vista
1.In Windows Vista (except in Home Basic), there is a tool called the Snipping Tool.
To open it, click on the start menu, type snip, then hit enter (the latest version of Windows Vista updates the search results as you type each letter).
2.Click on Snipping Tool.
3.The Snipping Tool opens, and a white mask is applied on the screen. In the drop-down menu for the 'New' button, choose from a free-form snip, rectangular snip, window snip, or full-screen snip
4.In free-form snip mode, draw around the area you want to be captured. Drag a rectangle in rectangular snip mode. For window snip mode, select the window you want to capture. In full-screen mode, just selecting it from the drop-down menu makes the capture.
5.The snipped image is then opened within the Snipping Tool, but is also copied to the Windows clipboard for use in other applications.
In Windows 7
1.If you want to take screenshots in Windows 7 it comes with little program called Snipping Tool, which can be found in the Start Menu/All Programs/Accessories.
You can take a screenshot of the entire screen, a window or just a selection of the screen, that you select
Tips
*If you want to take screenshot of just the active window (the one that's most on top and activated), press "Alt - Print Screen". This means, you should hold down the Alt key and then press the Print Screen key.
*A quicker way of accessing Microsoft Paint can be achieved by pressing the Windows key (Between "Ctrl" and "Alt" on many keyboards") and "R", then typing 'mspaint' in the box that appears.
*Many laptops, to conserve keyboard space, have mapped the "PrtSc" key as a primary or secondary function on a shared key. To take a screenshot with "PrtSc" mapped to a key as a secondary function, you will need to locate your notebook's function key (usually labeled "Fn" and located along the bottom row) and engage it before touching "PrtSc."
*Depending on your version of Windows, Paint will allow you to save the screenshot in different formats.
*BMP is the default option (a lossless uncompressed format)
*PNG is a lossless compressed format
*JPEG is a lossy, compressed image format, specifically developed for photographic images. For these images, it allows for the smallest file size. When used for non-photographic images, file size is larger than e.g. PNG and GIF and the image has a lower quality.
*GIF is good for applications windows with a limited number of colors
*If you plan on putting your screenshot on a website, be sure it does not exceed a suggested size limit
*It is also possible to pause an internet video and make a screenshot of it. In this way you can create a still from a video, e.g. from youtube.
*As a rule your video player allows to make the video full screen and high quality, and to stop at the frame you want.
*This capturing method may not work if you play the video from version 11 or newer from Windows Media Player
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