How To Make Screen Shot In Windows 7 And Windows XP Without Any Software

Hi friends!All Have you ever noticed, what is the purpose of the PrtSc key given on keyboard ?  Generally computer users consider this key as extra without any utilization.  Most of the computer user are not aware about the functions of this key. In fact this key can perform some very interesting tasks on your computers. This key can be used to take or capture screen shot of active window in Windows 7, Windows XP, and Windows Vista. You can easily edit this screenshot to apply some formatting with the help of other utilities like MS Paint.
Although Windows 7 and Windows Vista has one new tool introduced by Microsoft for taking screenshots of any Active window on your computer called Snipping Tool. But this tool has some shortcomings like it can not take screenshot of Menus opened as displayed on the image given below.

But PrtSc key can take screen shot of Menus opened unlike Snipping tool as well. This Key used to take screen shot need very little knowledge of computers. Also this task takes less than one minute to take screen shot of any active window on your computer.

Steps to capture screen shot without any software.

• Open the window to which you want to capture.

• Press PrtSc key on your keyboard. This will copy the screenshot of active window to clipboard on your computer.

• Open any Image Editing application like Paint.

• Click anywhere in the field of newly opened image editing application.

• Press Ctrl+V or Select Paste from Edit Menu.

• This will paste the captured image in Image editing application. Now you can edit this screenshot like any other image with the help the Image editing application opened by you.

• Also you can save this screenshot in any format.