How Do You Use The Print Screen Function In The Vista Operating System?
To show someone exactly what you are doing, sometimes it is necessary to be able to copy exactly what you are seeing on your computer screen. In Vista, it is easy to turn your computer’s wallpaper into a jpg picture. Locate the “print screen” button on your keyboard. It will likely be in the top row of buttons and marked “prt sc”. If your keyboard has prt sc on the lower half of the button, to activate the print screen function, all you may need to do is press the button for step one. If, however, prt sc has a circle around it, then you will need to push the “fn” button (next to control and alt at the bottom left of the keyboard) at the same time that you press the prt sc button:[fn+prtsc] Open the Paint program. On the edit tab, select paste. Save the image to a file. Hint: to make the image smaller, press control w, and change the top two resize boxes to 80% in both the horizontal and the vertical box. Hit enter. This will resize the image to a size that is convenient to use for emai