Screenshots

**MilesAhead** · 12 Mar 2008, 12:41 PM

See katzdvd's post. Capture is built into Windows. Press PrintScreen key to capture the entire desktop. Press Alt-PrintScreen to just capture the active window. Then open Irfanview or any graphics app that has a "Paste" command in edit menu and paste it.

**dr_ml422** · 12 Mar 2008, 01:40 PM

Thnx Miles. I'll get to Irfanview soon. Gonna catch some zzzs. Been on this pc all day.

**cynthia** · 12 Mar 2008, 02:46 PM

If you have Gadwin running in the background and press the Print Screen button it will open up the captured image. You can even just let it autosave in a desired format to your hard disk.

**MilesAhead** · 13 Mar 2008, 01:26 AM

I gotcha'

Originally Posted by cynthia

If you have Gadwin running in the background and press the Print Screen button it will open up the captured image. You can even just let it autosave in a desired format to your hard disk.

I gotcha'. There's lots better than the default Windows screen cap but I was just thinking of avoiding one install for the time being. The fewer variables the better until the user gains experience.

**jrx10** · 13 Mar 2008, 10:35 AM

I like Gadwin because of the "capture rectangular area" with the mouse cursor so you can basically exactly crop what you're capturing before you save. I sometimes use it for a quick save of small FW alert PUs or AV HIPs PUs that I want to evaluate later, and I've not yet found a way to C&P the print within these PUs to WP or NP. It just saves the time of going back and hunting thru the FW or AV log which I usually forget to do.

**dr_ml422** · 13 Mar 2008, 04:16 PM

Originally Posted by MilesAhead

See katzdvd's post. Capture is built into Windows. Press PrintScreen key to capture the entire desktop. Press Alt-PrintScreen to just capture the active window. Then open Irfanview or any graphics app that has a "Paste" command in edit menu and paste it.

Ok. I got it but I can't paste it into a post. I just captured my taskbar and then opened it in Irfanview w/paste. Then copied it but can't post it here in forum. help...

**katzdvd** · 13 Mar 2008, 08:49 PM

This should help. About halfway down the page, the part about Microsoft Windows explains how to do it. After you save your pic & edit it to a manageable size, you can use a free pic hosting service, such as imageshack to host it. You then copy the url that imageshack give you for the pic url & paste it on the forum in the text box.

Hope that clears it up a bit.

**dr_ml422** · 13 Mar 2008, 10:49 PM

Hi Katz. I'm going to hit that imageshack and read the Microsoft bit. 1 Question though. I didn't check off any boxes when installing Irfanview. You know, the ones w/png, jpeg, etc... because I don't know about that much. Was it necessary to check off on those? If it is then I need to uninstall Irfanview and install it again. Any suggestions on this? Thnx.

**jmet** · 14 Mar 2008, 12:04 AM

I am going to assume those boxes, were the "file association" boxes....What that means is, what ever box has a check in it, whenever you double click/open a file with that extension (extension = .jpeg), it will open it by default in Infraview. If there is no check mark in the box and you double click/open that file, whatever other program is associated with that file extension will open it up.

**locoeng** · 14 Mar 2008, 02:01 AM

I'll add my 2 cents (confusion) as well...

Originally Posted by MilesAhead

Press PrintScreen key to capture the entire desktop. Press Alt-PrintScreen to just capture the active window.

..Then get Paint.net. Open Paint.net, click new and then Ctrl+V and your screenshot will be pasted according and sized correctly, then Save As and upload to Imageshack or Photobucket and then you will be able to post the url in a thread.

**dr_ml422** · 14 Mar 2008, 03:11 PM

Ok. So I got that part of the "file association boxes". Will post an update soon enough.

Yup I do get confused or just simply don't know wth I'm doing. Wait till you see my post in the AVG thread. lol....