what key(s) do you press to save a screenshot on your computer?

Answer 1

Prt Scrn (Print Screen). That copies the screen shot to your clipboard. You can then paste it to a program capable of displaying images.

Answer 2

Most computers with windows will work by pressing the print screen button. That will capture the whole desktop. Somtimes you have to hold down the shift when pressing print screen. But thats rare. If you want to capture just one window then you can hold the alt key down when pressing print screen.

Answer 3

For Windows XP

For this demonstration, ensure that you are connected to the Internet.

Then Double click on the Internet Explorer icon on your Desktop until it opens a Web Page.

After the Web Page loads, press the Print Screen (Prnt Scrn) button on your keyboard.

Windows will send the entire contents of your Web Page to the Clipboard in graphic format.

Now open up the Windows Paint Program by first clicking on your Start Button.

Then move your mouse over the All Programs icon to display all Start Menu folders.

If your Start Menu is set to the Classic View, move your mouse over the Programs folder instead.

Now, move your mouse onto the Accessories menu folder until it expands.

Now click on the Paint icon to launch the Microsoft Paint Program.

Then click on the word Edit, which is contained in your top tool bar area.

This will pull down a menu for you to now click on Paste.

Notice how Windows pastes the entire contents of your Web Page into the Paint program.

And all the tools of the Paint Program are available to reduce, enlarge and Print the contents.

To Print, click on the word File, which is contained in your top tool bar area.

This will pull down a menu for you to now click on Print.

Answer 4

There are 2 methods.

Pressing just PrtScr key will take a screen shot of the entire desktop and all open windows.

Pressing Alt-PrtScr will only take a snapshot of the active window. This is useful if you want to get a picture of an error message or dialog box without showing all the other things on your desktop.

Answer 5

There is a simpler way. Simply download ScreenShot2File and modify your preferred keys
With program ScreenShot2File you can quick and easily make and save screenshots.
ScreenShot2File makes shots of active window and entire screen directly to file, supports 5 graphic file formats: JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, BMP. Its very easy

Answer 6

Print Screen. Then open up an imaging program like ms paint, or photoshop or whatever and select paste from the edit menu. You should be able to see your saved screen shot there.

Answer 7

Print Screen key just aboe your Insert Key.

If it won't allow you to paste it in Paint, then if you have MS Word try Microsoft Works WordProcessor, or even Corell Word Perfect to past it.

Answer 8

Press the button on the far top right of the keyboard, should say print screen/sysrq, near scroll lock and pause/break

Answer 9

hi ,There is a button on the right hand corner which says Print screen,press it.Go to Microsoft word or the program you want to open the screen shot with.Right click and Paste.Good luck

Answer 10

Print Screen
Then paste the image into a program of your choice, i.e. Microsoft Word, Paint, etc.