Print screen...Not working??

Question

I have an HP Pavilipon laptop, and whenever I press "print screen" which is also labeled "insert", it never takes a screenshot. I dont know what the "function" key is. So please be specific and descriptive. Thank you

Answer 1

On the top row of your keyboard, to the right of the F12 key, is a key labeled "Print Scrn". In the "olden days", this key actually printed (on your printer) the image that was showing on the screen.

Since the first Windows, this key's function has changed. Now it copies the screen image to the clipboard. If you want to see this in action:


1. Press the Print Scrn key.


2. Open a graphics program (like Paint, or even MS Word) and do a paste

(Right click/Paste or CTRL + V).

3. You'll see the screen image.


4. If you want to capture only a window on the screen:

press and hold the ALT key, then the Print Scrn key. The image copied will be only the active window.

5. If you would like to print the image, use the print command from the graphics program.

6. If you wish, you can "edit" the image, then save it.

use your graphics program's "Save" command in the "File" menu.

By the way, the image is copied as a .bmp (Bitmap) file, but you can convert to any format you'd like, within the limits of your graphic program.

Answer 2

Print Screen Key Not Working

Answer 3

Print Screen Not Working

Answer 4

On Windows, the PrintScreen key simply copies the screen contents to the clipboard. Alt+PrintScreen copies just the active window. You can then paste it into Word or another program, and print it from there. Under the ancient DOS operating system, it actually printed the contents of the screen as text (back when screens displayed only text). Unless you're still using DOS at work, you probably have a third-party program installed that changes the key's behavior to actually print the screen as an image.

Answer 5

Print Screen was a function in the old DOS days. In those days, the screen was just characters and printers printed just characters, so you could easily print whatever was on the screen by sending the characters to the printer port. Today with Windows and graphic printers, it's a more complicated thing.

I don't know if this will work on your laptop but it's worth a try. Hit PrintScreen. Then open a graphic program like MS Paint, and do a 'paste'. The screen today is a graphic image and PrintScreen today copies a 'picture' of your screen to the clipboard.

Answer 6

ON laptops, you need to press the function key to access the dual function of a button. This is usually la belled FN and on the very left of the keyboard. Just hold it down and press print screen. This will copy the screen to the clipboard, and you can then paste it into Paint or anything else.

Answer 7

Usually you press SHIFT + PRINT SCREEN to copy the screen to the clipboard. Once there, it must be pasted into a graphics program like Photoshop.

Answer 8

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Print screen...Not working??
I have an HP Pavilipon laptop, and whenever I press "print screen" which is also labeled "insert", it never takes a screenshot. I dont know what the "function" key is. So please be specific and descriptive. Thank you

Answer 9

my solution involved the realization that my computer's display had been set to Extended because of a recent connection to a projector. So it was expecting a dual monitor setup (there wasn't one) and when I hit Shift->PrtScn it was taking the desktop image of the 'other' monitor. I simply used Fn->F8 to toggle to a single monitor display (turn off projector) and now shift->PrtScn works as expected.

Answer 10

I also have an HP Pavilion, you need to push the blue "FN" key and the prt scr key together. The FN key works like a shift key for the keys with the blue markings.