My print sreen button function has changed

Please try: [Ctrl] [PrintScreen], [Alt] [PrintScreen], or [Shift] [PrintScreen]

Use PrintScreen key on keyboard, or ALT PrintScreen. Better yet, install PickPick on your computer and use it.

Print Screen
Use this method to print screen.
Press and hold down the Alt key and the press the PrtSc key, this places thescreen image into the Clipboard. .
Open a blank Word document and then Click on Edit - Paste.
The image is then places onto this page, you can up the image by holdingdown the Shift key and then place the cursor on the bottom corner of the image,then press the left mouse button and drag it down to the right, release themouse button when you have d the image to your requirements.
NOTE - Holding down the Shift button will maintain the image in the correctproportion.
You can now print this image document and or add text before printing.

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To use the printscreen function of your laptop do the following:

1. Press the "Printscreen" key (or "Fn" key and "Printscreen" key if it is written in color blue).
2. Open MS-Paint (Click start, programs, accessories, paint)
3. Press "ctrl" and letter "v" to paste the captured screen.
4. You can save the captured screen as an image (jpg, gif, bmp) or you can print it.

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Whatever happened to the Print Screen key??
If you did computers back in the 80's (DOS days) you probably remember using the Print Screen key on your keyboard to print a copy of whatever was on the monitor screen at that time to your printer. It wasn't used that much because back in those days it took forever for a dot matrix printer to print out the entire monitor screen. However, it came in handy once and awhile.
Microsoft has turned the key into into a "Snapshot key" which, as that term implies, takes a snapshot of the monitor screen.
After taking the snapshot, in XP simply click on Start, All Programs, Accessories and Paint. Then click on Edit followed by Paste and Voila! There's your screen snapshot in living color staring you in the face!
Now you can use "Save As" and save it with a .jpg/tif extension (etc.) and/or send it to your printer using File, Print.
If your keyboard Print Screen key performs more than one function you will have to experiment a little to get it the key to perform the Print Screen Function. Try holding down the ALT, SHIFT, or CTRL key (or any "special" keys unique to your keyboard) when you hit the Print Screen key in order to get the key to perform its Print Screen function.
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Yavacotech

Try printing document thru your printer rather than Printscreen feature. Or Printscreen feature copies to clip board which you should be able to open and paste to new document then use your printer set up to adjust. Make sure your printer set up is set to scale to fit page.

PrintScreen dont work!
Use the free program, ex. Gadwin PrintScreen

In the old DOS days, Print Screen would send a copy of the screen to the printer.

In Windows, Print Screen sends a copy to the Clip Board.
So, what you need to do is open an application like WordPad, MS Word, Paint or some other program and Paste to a new file. Then you can print the image from that file.

A side note: The PrintScreen key captures the whole screen, the ALT-PrintScreen key combination captures only the active window.

After you press print scr, it won't print to printer, you need to paste it in application such as paint (come with ms windows) and from there you can print it to printer.
the combination key,
try press prn scr only and paste it in paint application.
if it isnot working, try using shift+prn scr.