How does a thicko take a screen shot.

[Top Cat]

When i was in work today, i was having a problem with a page so the helpful techie chap told me to take a screen shot.
he said just press the PrtSC button then go to the your email, right click then paste. I did and it worked fine. Tried it tonight on my home PC and it doesn't work. 

So how do i do it chaps. 

[Hedge]

Print screen then paste into paint or paintbush.

[Top Cat]

Couldnt find paintbrush but i have a screen shot in microsoft picture manager. 

How do i get it from there onto a forum page, do i have to load it as a pic in photo bucket then paste here. 

[VC]

that would work 

[Top Cat]

Thank s guys. 

Is there a quicker way of doing it rather than uploading it as a pic. Seems a bit long winded. 

[maxp]

Some other forums have the ability to upload images directly to a post, but these ones require you to upload somewhere else, then link to the image using the img button.

Photobucket is ok, but www.imgur.com is my favourite by far.

[joesgti]

i had almost anticipated you taking a picture of your monitor!! 

[Hedge]

If you only wish to capture a specific window then make it active and press cntrl + ALT + Print Screen.

[bacillus]

If you only wish to capture a specific window then make it active and press cntrl + ALT + Print Screen.

Actually just Alt+PrintScreen will capture the present open window...   

[rdfcpete]

Yeah depends which email client you use TC. For example, Outlook which uses MS Word as its default email editor can embed images like that whereas some others won't 

You've got the right key combination though