HT1171 When you do a 'print screen', where does the image go?

Question

Using Windows 7 in Bootcamp.
When i use the shortcut to do a print screen, i cannot find the image nor does it seem to be stored in the clipboard.
Any ideas where this goes?

Answer 1

My Mac Pro has a Mac aluminum keyboard. I found the F14 key to be equivalet to PrtScn key on PC.
Your Windows BootCamp control panel interface has keyboard help.
In PC jargon, pressing PrtScn copies what is displayed on Monitor to clip-board. Unlike Lion/Leopard's
user friendly equivalent, it does not create an incremental .png to desktop for you. If you open Paint
accessory there is a Paste function that will show clip board and you then can save it as zzz.jpg to
desktop etc.
Because this is a tedious process, I have code to do what Lion/Leopard does, so that after pressing
PtrScn; when (PasteScr.Vbs) executed, will place Picture(NN).Jpg on desktop, incrementing NN thus
saving need to go through Paint. The code is Vbs script and you can use it by copying text between,
== lines then pasting the copy to a new text document somewhere on your C:\ drive. Then, after saving,
rename it to, for example, PasteScr.Vbs
You can make a shortcut to this on Desktop to use whenever you have pressed PrtScn.
This works in Vista & Windows 7 and should work in XP.
I have found that in Windows 7 64 Bit, on occasion PrtScn does not go to clipboard and results in a white
Picture(NN).Jpg. If this happens, repeat the Prt & Paste process.
This could be improved if pressing PrtScn could be invoked in the VBS but I don not know how to do that.
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delay = 300
paintWindowTitle = "untitled - Paint"
set shl = createObject("wscript.Shell")
set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.fileSystemObject")
desktopFolder = shl.specialFolders("desktop")
if right(desktopFolder, 1) "\" then
desktopFolder = desktopFolder & "\"
end if
i = 1
do
filePath = desktopFolder & "Picture" & i & ".jpg"
if not fso.fileExists(filePath) then exit do
i = i + 1
loop
shl.run "mspaint"
wscript.sleep delay
shl.appActivate paintWindowTitle
wscript.sleep delay
shl.sendKeys "^v"
wscript.sleep delay
shl.sendKeys "^s"
wscript.sleep delay
shl.sendKeys filePath
wscript.sleep delay
shl.sendKeys "%s"
wscript.sleep delay
shl.sendKeys "%{f4}"
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