Shift Apple 4 on a PC???

[davekaye101]

I have been using a mac for years and I often use the selective screenshot function (shift apple 4) to take screenshots of small parts of the screen, rather than the whole of it. I have tried to find the same way of doing this on a PC but so far I've had no luck. All I have managed to find on a PC is the ability to take a screenshot of the whole screen. Anyone know how i can recreate the shift apple 4 on a PC???

 

[mattscott306]

I think all this does is grab certain windows but: alt-print scrn will take a screenshot (of something at least). I don't think there is any native way to take a selected area screenshot, you'll probably have to DL something.

 

[Eraserhead]

Anyone know how i can recreate the shift apple 4 on a PC???

PC's don't have this functionality built in, you may be able to do it with a third party application, though I believe they may be able to take screenshots of a whole window with Alt-PrintScreen.

 

[Teddy's]

Use Word

Use Print Screen , then copy on MS Word, then you can crop and edit it. Then save it as a word document. That's my trick at work. I don't have Photopaint or Photoshop in that PC. I just use a Word doc.
On my Mac, I use the Screenshot Plus widget.

 

[Eraserhead]

Use Print Screen , then copy on MS Word, then you can crop and edit it. Then save it as a word document. That's my trick at work.

Yuck.

I presume you have MSPaint on your Work PC (Start==>Accessories==>(Somewhere))? which can then at least save the screenshot as an image document.

 

[gloss]

You can take a screenshot of the frontmost window only by holding down ctrl (or one of the other modifier keys...I forget at the moment) and pressing Print Screen.

 

[SMM]

Print Screen works differently by using Shift, Alt and Ctl. Pasting the results into Paint seems to be the most painless way to get a basic screen capture. Paint lives in the Accessories folder.