Screen Capture or Print Screen

This is a simple trick to capture your screen shot.

This page shows you how to capture a screen shot of your desktop or a window. Although the print screen feature has been available on Windows machine for a long time, some people have never tried to use it and would want to find out how.


To capture a screen shot of your entire desktop:
Hit "Print Screen" key on your keyboard (or "Print Scrn", or similar).
Open an image editor (i.e. Photoshop, Paintshop, or the Windows built-in "Paint").
Press Ctrl-V to paste the image and save the file as Jpeg, Bitmap, etc..

To capture a screen shot of only a window, a popup, or an error dialog:
Make sure the window or popup which you want to capture is active (on the very front of your screen).
Hold the "Alt" button and press "Print Screen" key on your keyboard (or "Print Scrn", or similar).
Open an image editor and press Ctrl-V to paste the image and save the file as Jpeg, Bitmap, etc..

How to Speedup Browsing Folders

You may have noticed that everytime you open my computer to browse folders that there is a slight delay. This is because Windows XP automatically searches for network files and printers when you open Windows explorer. To stop XP from doing this follow the instructions below.

1. Open My Computer
2. Click on Tools menu
3. Click on Folder Options
4. Click on the View tab.
5. Uncheck the Automatically search for network folders and printers check box
6. Click Apply
7. Click Ok
8. Reboot your computer

Try it now, you will see a significant increase in speed.