Help! Computer question.

[charlottezweb]

Does anyone know how I can screen grab in windows? I know how to do it with a mac with either grab or command-shift-3, but not how to do it in windows.

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[berkeleyfarm.livejournal.com]

Shift-Print Screen.

I think Control-Printscreen works to get another part of the screen, as well.

[charlottezweb.livejournal.com]

Does that work to get part of the screen--I'm trying to grab a bit of video to replace the thumbnail.

[berkeleyfarm.livejournal.com]

Sorry, don't know - I don't work with vids.

[la-penguinita.livejournal.com]

alt-printscreen will grab just the active window.

Otherwise, printscreen alone will work.

Enjoy!

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

Note that if you're used to the Mac, you may be expecting it to write a file to the disc. In all of these cases (printscreen, alt-printscreen, etc.), it writes the image to the clipboard. You thereafter have to paste it into some program or other and save it.

[charlottezweb.livejournal.com]

Ah! Ok, good to know. Listen, do you know if this works to grab only part of the screen? Say, if I had a window open and needed some arbitrary piece of it? With Grab, I get to put the cursor anywhere and pull a box around what I want to copy. Is there a Windows equivalent?

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

Not built-in. Printscreen by itself will copy the whole screen. Alt-printscreen will capture just the current window (but the entire window including the menus and borders and all that, not just the contents).

There are third-party utilities that let you use your pointer to select and area of the screen to copy.