Quite often we get posts requesting help and not enough information is provided.
One way to provide information is with a screen shot. If you have never done it before, you may wonder just how it's done and what you need to do it. Well most of the time you have to open a seperate program to do it. I have found a niftly little (free) program that resides in your tray, once you set it up (which is easy as pie) all you have to do to make a screen shot is hit the "print screen" button on your keyboard (or you can set up a hot key). and then select the portion of your screen that you want to capture (unless you want the full screen) hit enter and that's it. after it's captured you can save it as a jpeg file, e-mail it directly from your desk top copy it to the clipboard or all of the above.
Here is more info and the download



Gadwin Printscreen

I use screenshots for everything. I use them in articles to illustrate some element of what I am discussing and they are also great for helping to describe and fix technical support issues. There is almost no limit to the usefulness of screenshots. However, I wish I could say the same for the integrated screen capture application that is included with the Windows operating systems.

Windows' printscreen does its job, but this lack luster application doesn’t give you any tools or any way to manage your screenshots. Instead, you have to rely on other programs to pick up the slack. With the traditional Windows screen capture, you had to open up an outside image editing tool in order to save the captured screen . This can become tedious when you are doing something that requires a lot of screenshots, especially considering you can only take one screenshot at a time with Windows.

Well, if you like to take screenshots like this guy does, let me introduce Printscreen from Gadwin. You’ll never look at printscreen the same way again. Gadwin Printscreen gives you options that should have been in the Windows version, but wasn’t. It has tools and options that make the whole process quicker and at the same time, more flexible. Now, doesn’t that sound good?! For example, there’s no need to capture the whole screen. With this week's download, you can choose from a number of options that allow you to customize you screenshots. You can capture the mouse or not, you can have the screenshot automatically downloaded to a predetermined folder, you can capture just what you want from the screen, etc. With Gadwin, you have complete control.

Okay, the link didn't come through, I'll go back and get it.

Here is the URL www.gadwin.com/printscreen/?prnscr'

Mustafa, you are a genius! This freeware from Gadwin is perfect for sending clients screen shots. Thanks for the tip!

Old geeks like me remember the days when the "print screen" button was the way to get your data to print, but with modern operating systems the print screen button now takes a snapshot of your screen and puts it in the clipboard for you to past into whatever you want. CTL+print screen just takes a snapshot of the window on top rather than your whole desktop.

With gadwin you can select exactly what you want to take a screen shot of. Also you can paste it directly into a file or send it directly via e-mail. and it will do a lot more than that.

Sorry to correct, but I believe it's Alt+PrtSc.
I have the habit of hitting PrtSc, run Mspaint & Paste, even though there's good apps out just for that. Thanks for the heads up, Mustafa. I might just try it out.

Hi Adam,
Yes, this is a nifty little program, it takes screen shots to a new level.
And with much more ease thanyou could imagine.

I'm also looking at a that (among other things) makes html photo album pages with matching thumbnails., I remember you were asking about something like that one time. The program is a file management program by ACDSystems, I have version eight, but I just downloaded a trial of version nine so I'm going to take a look see at what it can do.

my bad

I just saw this post and thought I'd add my two cents. I use MWSnap from this site:

http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html

It's easy to use and you can create a snap of an entire desktop or an area. You can use the tool bar buttons on the form or shortcut keys to start the snapshot.

You can also include the cursor. However, this program allows you to pick the cursor you want to use, arrow, double-arrow, hand-pointer, etc. There are alot of features that enhence this app. Check it out.

It will save your snapshots in several formats:

.BMP
.JPG
.GIF
.PNG
.TIF

The neat thing about this software is that it's freeware. The author asks for a donation.

Greg

Sounds a lot better than the standard Microsoft Paint, at least in terms of editing your screenshot.

Hello,
I expect you are all sorted now, but I thought I would
mention this... http://www.windowclippings.com/

Its THE business!...
Peter