Print Screen feature: Where are the files?

[bosox188]

The Print Screen key on the keyboard that takes a pic of your desktop or whatever you're doing on your computer, does anyone know where Windows stores the pictures you take? I've been wondering for a while.

 

[koondrad]

Go in to paint and paste it.

 

[diluted]

You'll probably want an image viewer/editor better than crappy old paint, get IrfanView or something. Oh, and it stores it in memory until you paste it and save it.

 

[bosox188]

Oh so it doesn't automatically take the pic and save it in a folder, you have to use paint? Ok, I have an old version of Photoshop that'll do.

 

[Darkknighttt]

yea, paint or any image program.

 

[cadaveca]

the print screen is just like selecting a bucnh of text, and right-clicking and copying it. When you open up paint, just simply click in the white square, and press Ctrl+V, to paste the image of your screen from the clipboard.


However, some applications, WILL have a command mapped to the printscreen key that save the image to a folder. Most benchmarks, and the majority of games will do so.


If you are interesting in an alternative to PrtScn, you can try "hoversnap", for desktop shots, windows, and custom areas, or for gaming, FRAPS would be one of the best to try.


:thumbs:

 

[Asus]

FYI if you just want to take a screen shot of a program window (example: your web browser) you can hit Alt+PrintScreen with that program selected. That way you don't have to crop it out from a full desktop image.

 

[DreadLord]

FYI if you just want to take a screen shot of a program window (example: your web browser) you can hit Alt+PrintScreen with that program selected. That way you don't have to crop it out from a full desktop image.

You learn somethin new every day.

 

[Crushenator 500]

You learn somethin new every day.

Wow, you really do!

That's awesome Asus

 

[EVIL]

crush is such a n00b, he didnt even knew that? damn..

 

[Crushenator 500]

crush is such a n00b, he didnt even knew that? damn..

*banned*

 

[EVIL]

rrright!

 

[holydeadpenguins]

I learned that in school when everybody took computer apps in 6th grade.

 

[gweedodogg69]

it goes to the clipboard i thought, even though im positive the little people inside my PC do that stuff with their magic. lol. I give my PC candy and stuff so it'll never go bad. Seems to disappear too, but my cousin seems to be puttin on the pounds...doesn't make sense.