To create a screenshot follow these steps:
- The first step is to create the windows that you want to capture and leave them up on the screen.
- Just
to the right of your keyboard, you should see three groups of keys.
The lower set of keys usually is a group of arrow keys. Above that is
usually a set of some six keys that are labeled "Insert," "Home," "Page
Up," etc. Above that should be three keys that have rather odd labels
- like Pause/Break and ScrLk. One of those keys should be labeled PrtScrn/SysRq. Pressing Alt-PrintScreen (Alt-PrtScrn) places an image of the frontmost window on the
clipboard. Pressing PrintScreen by itself places an image of the entire desktop on the clipboard.
- If
you press PrtScrn/SysRq, nothing will appear to have happened.
However, your computer just took a snapshot of its screen and stored
that picture on its clipboard, much as it stores information that you
cut and paste.
- Open
MS-Paint. (From Start/Run, issue the command "mspaint".) Create a new
empty image, and use Edit/Paste to bring in the screenshot you just
took.
- Use MS-Paint to Save As, using PNG as the file format (it is superior to all the rest).
