So a computer technician tells you to take a screen capture (image of your entire display) for computer diagnostic issues or you want to prove your friend wrong in an ”I told you so” trivia game. However in both scenarios, you need to figure out how. In this article I will show you to take a ‘picture’ of your screen.
1. First thing is to make sure all embarassing tabs, minimized windows or files are out of view on the screen. I’ve had clients accidentally send me too much info when I asked for a screen capture. A screen capture will literally send everything you see on your monitor right now. Including the task bar, browser toolbars and desktop icons (if you’re taking a capture of the desktop)
2. When you have the screen ready to take the caputre, press “PrtSc” or “Print Screen”. This key is located near Pause/Break, Insert, Delete, Home and other keys in the top right quadrant of your keyboard.
3. Open Paint, (Start > (All) Programs > Accessories > Paint). This will open Microsoft’s ancient image editing software that is equipped on most, if not all Microsoft Windows computers by default.
4. On the top toolbar of Paint, click “Edit” and click “Paste”. This will paste the screen capture into the program.
5. To save the image, click “File” on the top toolbar and then “Save As”. Pick an image name and save it to a location you will remember.
Now you can attach the image in an email program or send it through instant messengers, to solve computer problems or to settle a bet. From the Paint program, you can also add captions and modify the image to show the issue you are having using the paint tools on the left area of the program.
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