Rick wrote:
> I'd like to be able to take a snapshot of only a certain
> area of my screen such as the active window, and save it
> to a .JPG or something similar. I know Snag-It does
> this but it's $50. Is there something in the public
> domain or less expensive that someone can recommend for
> this?
By design, as it has always been with every version of Windows,
pressing the <PrtScn> key copies the entire display, including the
Desktop Wallpaper, to the clipboard (iow, into RAM). Pressing
<ALT>+<PrtScn> copies only the active Window to the clipboard. To view
the screen capture, open a graphics program, such as MS Paint, and press
<CTRL>+V. This will paste the contents of the clipboard (your
screenshot) into the open file, and allow you to view it or save it as a
file for later use.
How to Capture Screen Shots in Windows Using the Print Screen Key
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;173884
If a particular screen shoot contains more of the screen than you like,
you can always use Paint to crop it. No need for a 3rd party
application, unless you're going to be doing extensive manipulations of
the resulting images. A somewhat more advanced, free graphics program
that you might find useful, should Paint prove to be too rudimentary, is
IrfanView,
http://www.irfanview.com.
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