This is driving me nuts. I use WindowsXP... I want to take a screenshot, I push PrintScreen, and go paste it as a new image in my photo editing program (Jasc PaintShop Pro 6). But instead of showing up as the image, it ends up being a "window" to the background behind it...

It never did this with Windows98...what do I do!

 

PowerPoint did the same thing as with PSP...I tried MS Paint too and didnt work.

 

hold down shift and hit print screen

 

do you want the whole screen? if so, just press the PRT SCR button on your keyboard.

If you have an application that is in a window and want a screenshot of just that app, press ALT and PRT SCR.

Hope that helps.

 

Paint Shop Pro has a screen capture utility too if the above won't work.

File -> import -> screen capture I believe.

 

all i do is click in the window I want the screen shot taken of and hit print screen, before alt+print screen worked tho. Then just copy and paste in any image or word processing program.

 

ok I tried alt+prtscrn, shift+prtscrn and they don't work, does it make a diff if I'm trying to take a screenshot from Windows media player/Divx player etc....

 

yes.. [img]smile.gif[/img] hence why it doesnt work [img]smile.gif[/img]

 

Try a video editor

http://virtualdub.sourceforge.net/

You can pick the frame of the clip you want and use paint shop or ms paint to copy the picture