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February 22nd, 2007 11:00

print screen key doesn't work

Hi, I used to be able to press the print screen key and then paste the screen shot into a new document in Photoshop, but not any more. Now when I press print screen and then open a new document, there's no option to paste in the edit menu, and ctrl+v doesn't work, either. I have a Dell XPS 410 running Windows XP SP2 MCE 2005. Any ideas what could be wrong? Thanks for any help with this.
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    Posted February 22nd, 2007 13:00

    Go to this site and download the Gadwin Printscreen 3.5. It's free, and works great. You can send the capture to any folder you desire. Enjoy. Dudley.
     
     
     
    XPS 410
    XP MCE
    Core 2 Duo E6400
    2GB DDR2 SDRAM 667MHz
    ATI Radeon X1300 pro 256MB DVIVGA
    Datasafe 320GB/Norton Ghost
    48X Combo and 16X DVD+/-RW
    Sound Blaster Audigy MB Audio
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    Posted February 22nd, 2007 15:00

    Shift + Print Screen captures the screen while ALT + Print Screen captures the Active Window.
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    Posted February 22nd, 2007 16:00

    Not on mine, it doesn't ;)

    But, I'm happy to report that the PrintScreen key started working again after I restarted my computer. I don't have to press Shift - I just press PrintScreen and it copies to the clipboard.




    Thank you both for your help. And thanks for the link - I'll check it out just in case this happens again and a restart doesn't fix it.
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    Posted February 23rd, 2007 05:00

    That would be the first instance I have seen where those keys combos do not work.
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    Posted February 24th, 2007 02:00

    Leave it to me to have the one computer that does weird things!

    Even though I've only had to press the PrintScreen key to get a screenshot in the past, I tried every key combination I could think of, (just in case) hoping that something would work. But, no such luck - nothing I did would make the PrintScreen key work. There was no option to paste, because nothing had been copied.

    However, at that same time, I found out that the ALT + PrintScreen key combination did still work to copy the active window, but I wanted to copy more than just a little strip at the top of a window. And, of course, once I had pressed that combination of keys, the little window strip was on the clipboard, so then that was the only thing available to paste.

    Luckily, the act of restarting the computer magically restored the PrintScreen key to it's former glory, so now I can continue on creating Photoshop tutorials, complete with screenshots. And once again, all's well with the world...... for now, anyway ;)
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    Posted December 12th, 2012 13:00

    I just bought my XPS and the Print Screen has never worked.

    I've tried everything suggested by this forum.

    Anything else?