How do I?

Take a screen shot from my laptop?

 

ctrl + alt + prt scrn.

then open up an email, or word document and ctrl + v to paste the
screen shot in.

Failing that, use your camera phone.

 

Ctrl + Prtsc, paste onto MS word? That's how I do it in work, anyway.

 

From my lappie

 

That doesn't work

 

Doesn't work

 

Does for me, I've just tried it.

 

in which case, it's almost certainly Fn + Prt Scr.

 

Should work. Try just using prtscr, which will capture the entire
desktop not just the active window.

Failing that, if using XP or earlier get ZAPGRAB - lets you grap
triangular sections quickly.

 

Simon, I've always used CTRL+PrtSC on all of my OS - if you don't use CTRL
then you are asking for the SysReq to be used instead.

 

Which it is, thank you.

 

Ive never used CTRL prtscr - occasionally use ALT prntscrn or prntscrn
on its own. Does sysreq do anything these days?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print_Screen

 

To be honest - I have absolutely no idea! The last time I used that
was donkeys years ago, and it wasn't on a windows-based system, I used
to use it to log on twice so that I could check whether or not
alterations I had made had worked.

Is there actually a necessity for sys req anymore?

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That doesn't work
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Just "prt screen" and ctrl-v into paint

 

I always just press Print Screen on the Windows laptop. And then
paste into whatever I want it.

 

Lozzo wibbled forthrightly:

I'd try resizing or saving it as a jpg it with a program like irfanview
(www.irfanview.com) though, as it'll probably be a big file otherwise.

 

Not really, it's only 487kb

 

In linux, alt-sysrq is a key combo used to tell the kernel directly to do a
few things, like unmount partitions, sync hard drives and hard reboot (among
others)

 

Hit it with a brick, and it you should be able to take it from the pile
that fall out.

 

Or any other word processing app.