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anamznazn

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On a Mac, I do the APPLE KEY + SHIFT + 4 to do a screen capture by selecting the pixels I want on the screen. Is there any way I could do this in Win XP? (and vista)
 
think you just have to use the print screen button then paste into a picture editor like paint to crop it.
 
Open up the on-screen keyboard and use the Print Screen key on there. You can also use Alt-Print Screen to capture the active window.
 
So WinXP has an on-screen keyboard? Is it in the Control Panel? I was trying to figure out how to do this as well...
 
Its pretty well hid...is a application called grab. Go to finder and do a search of your computer for "grab" ... I stumbled across it one day then wanted to use it another and could not find it. I went to the apple store and it took them awhile to find it.. 1st they said there is nothing like that until I insisted that I saw it:)
It lets you save as a tiff ( i think) then if you want you can convert to Jpeg
 
Its pretty well hid...is a application called grab. Go to finder and do a search of your computer for "grab" ... I stumbled across it one day then wanted to use it another and could not find it. I went to the apple store and it took them awhile to find it.. 1st they said there is nothing like that until I insisted that I saw it:)
It lets you save as a tiff ( i think) then if you want you can convert to Jpeg
Did you even read the post?
 
So WinXP has an on-screen keyboard? Is it in the Control Panel? I was trying to figure out how to do this as well...

It's somewhere. I'm not back at work for another 3 days, so you could probably dig around and find it before I do!
 

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Thats parallels, hes talking about Boot Camp...

Sorry didn't see "boot camp" anywhere in the post

On a Mac, I do the APPLE KEY + SHIFT + 4 to do a screen capture by selecting the pixels I want on the screen. Is there any way I could do this in Win XP? (and vista)
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...Is there any way to do this in Win XP?
I answered the question of what I knew

In boot camp you can use the on screen keyboard to emulate F14 key(prn scrn) ... its under Start> programs> accesories> accessibility
 
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