Questions tagged [print-screen]
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Win10 Print Screen Set Up - Lightshot
I just installed Win10 on my new laptop and whatever I do, I'm unable to get rid of Win10 Snipping Tool.
I went through several tips on Google in regards to this.
Disabled PrintScreen shortcut in ...
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change printscreen hotkey from sketch to dropbox
When I press prtsc on my win 10 laptop it opens snip and sketch. Is there any way to change it and assign my prtsc button to dropbox? thanks in advance!
I found this but I don't want to uninstall snip ...
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Looking for PrtScrn button on Apple keyboard when RDPing to Windows
I am in macOS, using an Apple Magic Keyboard, and am RDPing to a Windows machine. Is there a native key or key combo on the Mac side that will send the PrtScrn button press to Windows? Looking at ...
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windowkey + print screen not working on windows 10
I'm using windows 10.
When I try to take screen shot with windows key + PrtScr key, nothing happens.
PrtScr key copies screen to a clipboard. Shift + windows key + s also works.
I want to know why ...
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Windows 10 won't let me use prntscrn hotkey to use lightshot
I recently purchased a new laptop that uses Windows 10, like the laptops I've had before. And like before, one of the first things I did after setting up the laptop was download the printscreen ...
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Win+PrtSc shortcut not taking screenshot
A while ago I deleted my default "Screenshots" folder in my Windows 10 "Pictures" folder. This is the folder where my Win+PrtSc screenshots used to get saved.
I realized my mistake ...
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Print screen has red theme
recently in windows 10 I faced a new problem (not happened before). When I use PrtScr and paste the clipboard in Photoshop (Also tried Microsoft Paint), the image has RED theme. I have checked many ...
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How to printscreen and save to local drive in one step in windows 7?
I know that in winodws 10, you can do win+printscreen, and it saves the entire screen automatically under the picture folder.
Can something similarly be done in Windows 7 please? rather than print to ...
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Windows 10 Print Screen does not save anything to my clip board
Using Windows 10 Professional, build 17134.765, version 1803.
Asked a thousand times I'm sure, and one more time here.
I am aware that Foo+PrintScrn is supposed to copy the image to my clip board ...
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Print screen key is not working on certain applications
First, let's say I've already read this question and this one as well with no luck for me.
I've got Lightshot installed and with the Print Screen key mapped, so every time I press that key it simply ...
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What .exe gets called when I press Win+PrintScreen?
For reference: this is a quick way to take a screenshot and have it saved in your Pictures folder (or elsewhere).
I would like to call it from a script if possible. Are there command line arguments? ...
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Surface Pro 4 screenshot filename different than it used to be. How do I change it back?
I have the screenshots on my surface that are in my OneDrive Pictures folder. They are formatted like 2017-06-27.png.
The first one is 2016-01-10 but the last one I have is from August (2017-08-07). ...
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Print screen not working on windows 10
I'm using Windows 10. When I try to take print screen with PrintScreen, nothing happens
I tried these shorcuts
Ctrl+PrintScreen
Win+PrintScreen
PrintScreen
Alt+PrintScreen
Func+PrintScreen
Win+Ctrl+...
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How can I change behavior of print screen key to have same effect as win+print screen?
I found out that I could take screenshot and save them as image just by holding windows key and pressing print screen key. I would like to do this without having to press windows key. Which means that ...
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Is there a way to take a screenshot in KDE desktop by pressing only the "PrtSc" key?
I am using Fedora 25. I have installed both GNOME and KDE and some other desktop systems. I frequently take screenshots when I see any video like tutorial, documentary etc.
For GNOME to take a ...
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Why taking printscreen in games produce black screen?
Ever since I started taking screenshots using PrintScreen key I was unable to do so in games. To do that I would need to use an alternative like Fraps or Steam build-in F12 key.
I was wondering, why ...
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Windows 10 anniversary upgrade - border around window screenshot
After the Windows 10 Anniversary upgrade, the Alt+PrtScn combo captures a border of some size around a window, as in the screenshot below. Is it possible to have only the active window captured?
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Can I change the way Windows 10 gives names to screenshot?
Is it possible, by a registry hack or other method, to change the way Windows 10 names my screenshot taken and saved with Windows + Print Screen?
Currently my screenshots in C:\Users\[Username]\...
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How to copy current window to clipboard in Windows 10
Last week, I upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 8.1. In Windows 10, I want to know how to copy a screenshot, directly to the clipboard, of only the current window. In previous versions of Windows, ...
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How to find out what program took over control over Print Screen key?
How to find out and change what program responds to PrintScreen key press? Right now I use Greenshot and it fails to assign "Capture region" to PrintScreen.
The error still persists:
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How to printscreen a big treeview in a windows app?
I have an app that I would like to send the screenshot of all selected options to the developer, but the options are in a huge treeview...
Is there a trick to easily printscreen it, like capture ...
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How to allow applications to register PrintScreen hotkeys?
I use PicPick on a Windows 7 PC to quickly capture and edit screenshots. I've recently installed it on Windows 8.1, and the program is unable to bind the same hotkeys it uses on Windows 7. I've also ...
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Getting a filename of screen captured file
Is it possible to get filename of screen captured file in OneNote or in Evernote?
The capture only saves the date, but I want the title of the document also.
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Prevent Screenshot in gnome using xmodmap
I want to prevent screenshots from being taken in GNOME using keyboard shortcuts.
I need to do this by running a script in such a manner that it can be reverted later.
I tried to do this using ...
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How to disable 'Screen Capture' in RDP session in Windows Server 2008 R2
I have a requirement of disabling the end users who remote desktop to a Server 2008 R2 machine to capture images digitally through say Print Screen key. Is there a reliable way to do it? I should ...
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How to make print screen button act silently (not treated as key down)?
I'm trying to take a screenshot of this program while it is running.
When I press the print screen button, it raises a key down event which makes some elements in the program disappear.
I'm not able ...
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How do I print screen in windows 7 after I experience the problems below?
I know in Windows 7 that clicking the key labelled, "Print Scr" should print your current screen, for me this isn't working. Before you say it's my key that's to blame, prior to this I was using ...
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Is there any program to printscreen a webpage? [duplicate]
I'm doing a lot of printscreening of a website at the moment for documentation.
I usually just use the snipping tool that comes standard with Windows 7 but if the page is longer than the length of ...
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Hide a 2nd Monitor from a Programs Print Screen
I run 2 monitors on a PC that also runs a program for the Freelancing site Elance.com. The program they provide, takes screenshots and uploads them to my account for a client to see at different ...
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Is there a way to map the "Print Screen" key to another key without a third party tool in Windows RT?
I'm using a Surface RT, and there's no easy way to take a screenshot. The Print Screen key is excluded from the Surface's Touch Cover keyboard, so to take a screenshot, I have to plug in another ...
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Remap Print Screen key under Windows 8 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Reassigning the AltGr key to the Windows Key in Windows 7
Is there a way to remap the Print Screen key under Windows 8 to some other key combination or to disable the print ...
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What does "Win Button" + "Print Screen" do on Windows 8?
Today I was going to System Properties with Win+Break and accidentally pressed Win+Print Screen. By doing this, Windows 8 RTM x86 lowered the display brightness for 2 seconds and then returned to ...
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Modify PATH variable for X11 during log-in
I am working on some lab computers (read: no administrative rights) that, if I log in, I need to change the PATH variable as X11 starts. The reason is that I need to change the PATH variable at this ...
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How to take a screenshot of just the front window? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can one take a partial screen shot in Windows 7?
Is there a way on Windows to just take a screenshot of the window that is the currently active one? If so, how do I do that?
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Print screen software to capture subsequent screens
i am looking for a print screen software which will capture subsequent screens/frames
then save them all at the end.
requirement: i have a movie and i want to capture subsequent frames of a scene.
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Clipboard colour depth - embedding image into an application
I would like to paste screen-captures (obtained using the Print Screen key) into an old version of Lotus Notes (version 4.5.7). This does work, but the problem is that the images that are then ...
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How to take good quality screenshots
I know many ways to take screenshots.
I personally use Galdwin Print screen but when I post the images on any of blogs, the quality doesn't look very good at all.
Check out this image:
I have used ...
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CTRL + F1 Brings up an image capture application which I want mapped differently or not at all
Can anyone help me identify which program this is and how I can disable it or remap it to another key combination?
EDIT: OS Windows 7 Ultimate
I have attached a screenshot of the screencapture ...
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How to make a screenshot with a Mac keyboard on a Mac that is running Windows 7?
I have a Mac that is running Windows 7 through Bootcamp. I am using an external Mac keyboard and I want to take a screenshot but I have not had any success. I tried to Google the soltuion, but all the ...
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Print screen with cursor in Windows 7
I'm trying to capture some screenshots for a tutorial. When I press Print Screen (or PrtSc) on my keyboard, and paste into an image editor, the cursor's gone. The "tooltips" (if any) do print, but I ...
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Remote desktop control on print screen
Is there a way to make the remote desktop control at the top of the screen (ie. the small tab with the ip and minimize, close etc icons) be captured when you do a print screen?
Normally it just gets ...
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Setting hotkey to PrintScreen in Jing
I am configuring Jing's preferences.
I'd like to set the Capture hotkey to the PrintScreen key. However, when I set the focus on the Capture hotkey box and hit PrintScreen, nothing happens. ...
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How to paste Print Screen on MS Paint automatically when press "PrtSc" button?
Same question as by this person, but I need a better answer :)
Paint is great for my needs; I do not need anything else 99% of the time.
How to paste Print Screen on MS Paint automatically when press ...
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Can't find the print screen key
I've seen this question:
Print Screen key of Windows on Mac
But it doesn't help me.
I had a normal windows keyboard for my PC (WinXP) but the E key broke so I used an old Mac keyboard I found in the ...
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Printscreen automatically reduces resolution
An overseas not-so-tech-savvy friend complains that when she presses PrtScn and pastes the image in MSN Messenger, the transferred image is low-resolution.
I could ask which software she has ...
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Wine and the Print Screen Button
When I press the Print Screen button in a Wine window, Ubuntu handles the event. Is there a way to get a Windows-like behavior so that the screenshot is saved to the clipboard?
This probably isn't ...
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print screen doesn't work if VirtualBox is active window
My host system is Windows Vista home premium. I have setup a VBox environment to install slackware Linux, I'm trying to take screen prints of the various stages, but I can't seem to get the print ...
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Is there a way to do 'print screen' capturing areas off screen?
Sometimes I like to get a screen grab of a web page or application so that I can edit it for UI design purposes. Is there a way of getting a screen grab of the entire page (including ares which you'd ...
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Print Screen Error With Dual Monitors
I have a dual monitor setup running Windows XP, and when I hit "Print Screen" and try to paste into Paint, it fails with the error "error getting the clipboard data". Holding down alt-print screen ...
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