Screenshots in XP

Today seems to be another Night of Randomly Long Posts. I thought I would share a little secret with your inner computer geek. Because, all of us have an inner computer geek.

But your inner computer geek probably does not read HTML like my inner computer geek does. Well, mine isn't literate, but at least mine can peice it out and then run crying to Google when stuff doesn't work. Your inner computer geek may just need a bit of help from mua.

Today, I finally figured out how to screenshot on a computer running Windows XP. If you have Vista, life is easy. (Or not... Vista seems to be a poison to computers, but at least it has cool feautres). With Vista, you can screenshot/screencapture with this handy tool called "Snipper". You can size it to whatever size you want, and it automatically saves as a JPEG image file.

XP people, it is possible to screenshot! First, locate this button:

 This is called Print Screen. If you press it, the magical little Windows Bunnies take a little picture of everything that is on your screen. The magical Bunnies are invisible, however, so you don't know it is happening.
If you want to take a picture of an active window (the window you have open, not a pane of glass going jogging), press ALT and PrintScreen.

Now, go to Paint or some other such program. Press Edit then Paste, or press CTRL and tap V at the same time. Click "save as," make sure you have JPEG selected, and PRESTO!

Now you can go and edit this image, cropping it to whatever desired size.

Yeah, yeah, Vista, go rub it in our faces. You do that all in one step. :P See the things I can figure out when Dad takes the magical, always-dying Vista laptop to work?