Simple, Fast Screen Shot Capture in Windows Vista_2896

Simple, Fast Screen Shot Capture in Windows Vista

You probably already know that pressing the PrtScn button in Windows copies the entire contents of the screen to the clipboard. To work with the captured image, you then can use MS Paint or a similar application to edit, crop hp pavilion dv6000 battery, and save the picture.

There’s a faster, better way to take screen shots in Windows Vista. It allows you to outline the segments of the screen with the mouse pointer that you wish to copy, and then save the image in a variety of formats without having to start an image editing tool.

It’s called the “Snipping Tool.”

To enable it, click the Vista start icon and type “snipping tool” into the “Start Search” field. Vista will then pop up a cheap dialog asking you if you would “like to add the Snipping Tool to your QuickLaunch bar.” Click yes, and then the snipping tool will appear. Note that it may not appear immediately in the replacement QuickLaunch area. (You may need to click the double-chevron icon to find it in the pop-up list.)

The Snipping Tool dialog has “New” and “Options” buttons. Clicking Options shop opens a new dialog. Of interest is a checkbox that says “Always copy snips to the Clipboard.”

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If you do not want to use another application to edit your image file Dell Inspiron B130 battery, unselect cheap this option. That will make the snipping tool use its own simple editing screen.

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Clicking the down arrow next to “New” gives you the selection choices. charger Present are free-form, rectangular, window, and full-screen snips.

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The snipping tool supports saving the captured image as a GIF, gateway PNG Dell Xps M1530 Battery, JPG hp pavilion dv6500 battery, or HTML file.

You may think that saving an image as an HTML file is a curious choice. The file extension .mht refers to a “Mime HTML” file format. It’s been a part of new Microsoft Internet Explorer since 1999 (saving a web page as a “Web Archive”) and is supported by MS Word and the Opera web browser (but not Firefox). Basically it saves the image like a store MIME-encoded HTML email, and if you really need to do this, you would probably know why!

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Please note that the Snipping Tool is compaq part of the Vista Tablet support tools. If you don't find it on your system, go to Control Panel -> Programs and Features and select "Turn Windows features on or off." Scroll discount down and check "Tablet PC Optional Components." Then click OK.

The Vista Snipping Tool is not the fanciest or most useful screen capture utility, but it’s FREE and it’s acer aspire FAST. For those who frequently need to make screen shots of Windows applications, it is a very nice hidden feature inside zxcsky09520 Vista.

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