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Many laptops do not have the "Print Screen" button like a standard Windows keyboard, which is frequently to the right of the F12 button labeled "psc". The Print Screen button is very useful if you want to capture a snapshot of everything you see on your computer monitor, or if you want to capture only the active window, you can press Alt + psc buttons at once. To use the Print Screen function on a laptop running with Windows OS without the "psc" button, there is an "On-Screen Keyboard" that looks like the typical keyboard used for Microsoft users such as below, but can be used with a mouse instead:




 * Step 1**: To find this On-Screen Keyboard, click on "Start>All Programs>Accessories>Accessibility>On-Screen Keyboard" as seen below:

Once you see the On-Screen Keyboard window, you can use your mouse or mouse pad from your laptop to click on "psc" from the virtual keyboard to copy the screen shot from your monitor.


 * Step 2:** Open the Paint program on your laptop, which is a standard program in the Windows OS. Paint can be found by pressing "Start>All Programs>Accessories>Paint"


 * Step 3:** Open a new file in Paint by clicking on "File>New". Click "Edit>New" or using the buttons Ctrl + V. The image you captured from your monitor will appear in Paint.


 * Step 4:** Save the file from Paint by clicking on "File>Save As". In Windows XP or later versions, the file can be saved as BMP, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, or PNG.

To print the document from Paint, click on "File>Print". Make sure the correct printer is selected and click "Print".

By Michelle Wu