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A VERY easy way to copy anything on your screen

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Tahoe27
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Anything on your computer screen can be copied, easily edited and placed into your pictures. This goes for PDF files (google maps too)–which you are unable to "right" click on.

As long as you have a PC…just do this:

Have what you want copied up on the screen:

  • Hit your "Print Screen/SysRq" button"—-after you have hit this button you can leave the screen if necessary. I prefer to just open another window[/*:m:34fgm6iv][/list:u:34fgm6iv]
      [*]Open up "Paint" (via windows start–lower left corner; all programs, accessories, PAINT)[/*:m:34fgm6iv][/list:u:34fgm6iv]
      • Once Paint is opened, click "Edit" at the top.[/*:m:34fgm6iv][/list:u:34fgm6iv]
        • Click "Paste".[/*:m:34fgm6iv][/list:u:34fgm6iv]
        • A copy of the entire screen shows up. Here is where you edit more. The dashed-square at the top is what you choose to crop–Click on it. Go to what you want cropped and click and drag. Get it how you want it and choose "IMAGE" (at the top), then "CROP".

          ALL DONE! IT IS SO SIMPLE AND YOU WILL USE THIS ALL THE TIME! AFTER A FEW TIMES, IT WILL TAKE YOU ABOUT 10 SECONDS!
          Make sure you click "File", then "Save As"….I put it into "My Pictures".

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          To put "PAINT" on your desktop for easy accessibility:

          Go to "Paint" (Don’t open it. Just right click on the icon)
          Right click
          Choose "copy"
          Go back to your desktop
          Right click
          Choose "paste"

          You’ll be glad you did. :)


          …they may be dealing with one or more ersatz Zodiacs–other psychotics eager to get into the act, or perhaps even other murderers eager to lay their crimes at the real Zodiac’s doorstep. L.A. Times, 1969

           
Posted : March 29, 2013 10:04 am
smithy
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And I’ve discovered that if you use the "ALT" and the "PrtSc/SysRq" together, you just capture the active window on your screen, rather than all of it.
Cute eh? ;)

 
Posted : April 3, 2013 10:04 pm
Tahoe27
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Hmmm…I’ll have to check that out smithy…thanks!


…they may be dealing with one or more ersatz Zodiacs–other psychotics eager to get into the act, or perhaps even other murderers eager to lay their crimes at the real Zodiac’s doorstep. L.A. Times, 1969

 
Posted : April 13, 2013 8:59 pm
Quicktrader
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pcscreencapture…i use it regularly

qt

*ZODIACHRONOLOGY*

 
Posted : May 10, 2013 2:52 am
Aries
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You’re all geniuses!!! I, by contrast, am a total idiot when it comes to any kind of technology, so I need all the help I can get. THANK YOU!!! :D

You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.~~Vladimir Nabokov

Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.~~Oscar Wilde

 
Posted : March 6, 2017 2:24 pm
Tahoe27
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Even easier….the "snipping tool".

Pretty sure every Windows computer has it (even the really old programs). In your computer’s search function, just type "snipping tool" and save it to your desktop or task bar. It’s the easiest way…and saves directly to your photos file.


…they may be dealing with one or more ersatz Zodiacs–other psychotics eager to get into the act, or perhaps even other murderers eager to lay their crimes at the real Zodiac’s doorstep. L.A. Times, 1969

 
Posted : January 27, 2018 12:16 am
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