Does anyone know how to do this?

[William769]

Take a screen shot of your desktop?

I am trying to run a program & I keep getting a error message. The vendor of the software wants me to send them a screen shot of my desktop with the error message on it & I don't know how to do this. :(

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. I think you just hit the "print screen" button.

It should appear as a jpeg on your desktop then.

Are you using a PC or a Mac?

[William769]

2. I did that.

Nothing happened, or I don't know where the file was saved to. I am using a PC with Windows XP Home edition.

[maine_raptor]

5. Look in your "My Pictures" folder n/t

[Starbucks Anarchist]

7. It might be labeled "Picture 1" or something like that.

And it should be on your desktop.

Then you can cut and paste that jpeg into a Paint program to make it visible.

[unhappycamper]

3. If you're running windoze,

PrintScreen or Shift+PrintScreen should do the trick.

Open Paint (or any other photo editing program) & paste the contents of your clipboard into the application to make sure you captured the screen.

[meegbear]

4. Do CTRL-PrintScreen ...

then do Start | Run and type "mspaint" without the quotes and hit enter
Now select Edit | Paste

[William769]

10. Thank you.

I can always count on you! :hi:

[meegbear]

11. Awww, shucks, twerent nuthin'

anytime :hi:

[jayfish]

6. In Windows,...

hit CTL+Print Screen to take a shot of your entire desktop or ALT+Print Screen to cap just your active application. Paste into a graphics program and save as an image file.

Jay

[BlackVelvet04]

8. Open some kind of an imaging program like

photo shop and then minimize it. Then hit print screen. Maximize your imaging program and hit control and v or paste. You can then save the screenshot as a jpeg or whatever you want.

[William769]

9. Thanks for all the responses the ctrl print screen worked.