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Teach your kids (and yourself)
how to do screen shots!
By Hairfish
It's Extremely simple.
Look on your keyboard. See the row of keys above "Insert," "Home," and "Page Up"? The first of this trio should say "PrtScrn." Guess what that stands for? "Print
Screen." It's misleading; what it does is COPY your screen to the clipboard (as long as the printer is turned off!).
You have MS Paint, right? Or some other simple graphics program? After you've hit the "PrtScrn" key, open up the graphics program and select "File/New." It should open up a new file that's
already sized to your screen resolution. Now hit Ctrl+V...your PASTE command or use the Edit/Paste pulldown box.. You should now have a picture of your screen.
An alternative is to use one of the freeware screen-capture programs out there that will automatically save the screen shot just by hitting a "hot key." You set up which folder you want it to save
to, what number you want it to start with, and it automatically dumps each screen shot into that folder, bypassing the need for all that program-opening and pasting/saving. I use "Capture!" which
came with
CorelDRAW 3.0, eons ago...I'm sure there's something comparable out there in freeware or shareware. You can have it load with Windows, on boot (you know, shortcut in the StartUp folder), and it'll be ready and waiting when one of the girls creates a digital masterpiece.
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