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How do I take a screenshot on Windows?

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You can click ALT + Print Screen to copy an image of your desktop. Then, you can paste it into an empty Paint document to save.

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What is n + scroll lock?

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Pressing the "n" key and scroll lock enables or disables the scroll lock function.

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How do you find windows clipboard?

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I found this answer on the Microsoft answers page. "Unlike XP, the clipboard cannot be viewed in Windows 7. You need a copy of clipbrd.exe from an XP computer. It is located in C:\WINDOWS\system32. Copy it into the same folder in Windows 7 and to run it, click the Windows Orb (Start), type clipbrd and press Enter."

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How can I put a printed picture on the computer

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You will need a scanner if you would like it to be nice looking, or you can take a picture of it on your smart phone and email it to yourself.

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How can I copy the screen on my iPad and save the shot into my Photos?

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Press the power button and the Home button at the same time to take a screenshot on your iPad. The screenshot will be automatically saved into your Photos.

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How do I activate the print screen key on my HP notebook?

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Hold the function key (labeled as Fn) and press the Print Screen key. They both need to be pushed down simultaneously (at the same time).

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How can I use print screen on an Apple iPad?

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To use print screen on an Apple device, simply press the home button and the power/lock button simultaneously. This will make a copy of your screen and save it to your Camera Roll and your "Screenshots" folder.

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What do I do after pressing printscr?

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You can open Paint on a Windows computer and paste the image there, or access the image as a picture file on your computer's hard drive. The storage location of screenshots will vary depending on the type of computer you have.

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How do I print using snipping tool when the document is more than one screen in length?

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You'll have to just minimize the document, or you could take multiple screenshots and put them next to each other in a document to be displayed as one image.

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How can I do this in Windows 8?

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Do the same steps as you would for Windows 7.

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Can the default setting of print screen images be changed from .png to .jpeg?

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Unfortunatly, no. But if you install an image converter you can convert the .png to a .jpeg.

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How do I use print screen in Windows 10?

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In the top-right corner of the keyboard, you'll see the DEL key. To the left of the DEL key, there is the PRT SC, or print screen, button, which takes a picture of your screen and puts it in your clipboard. After pressing PRT SC, go to a program such as Paint, Word, PowerPoint etc. to paste in the picture.

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