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> Vista Home prem 32BIT
>
> You would think for something so simple, a software would be available. I
> know I can Use PrintScreen to place a Screen print into Paint and print it,
> but multipile steps are required. Under XP I used a utility taht all I had
> to do is make the Window I wanted to Print the Active Window, I would press
> print screen and that window would print….basically…one step vs. 3 steps.
>
> I have tried the Gadwin Free Print screen….it also requires a few steps
> and the printed document comes out many times too small.
>
> Has anyone found\used a "One-Step" Printscreen utility\Software that all you
> do is press the PrintScreen key to print the Active window and the printed
> copy comes out, shall we say, normal print size? Please let me know and
> where to get it……
Back in the days of DOS, the PrtScn key used to print the screen. But
in all versions of Windows, this works differently, and the name of
the key is now an anachronism. PrtScrn captures the whole screen, and
Alt-PrtScrn captures the active window.
Either one captures the image to the Windows clipboard. Once it’s in
the clipboard you can paste (Ctrl-V) it into any application that
supports graphics (Windows Paint, other graphics programs, even your
favorite word processor). You can edit or add to the image as you
wish, then print it.
This ability to manipulate the image in a program before printing it
is an improvement over the original DOS method of just printing it.
But if you’d like that old facility back, there are several
third-party freeware/shareware programs that can do this, such as
PrintKey2000 at
http://www.sharewarejunkies.com/00zwd2/printkey2000.htm
—
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP – Windows Desktop Experience
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