Capturing Screen Images
This tip applies to all versions of Windows. For whatever reason, at times you want to capture an image that is displayed on the screen for use in an image editing program.

There are many utilities that have been written to do this, but there really is no reason to use one of them, as Windows has one built right in!

To capture the entire screen area simply get it arranged the way you want it to appear, then push the "Print Screen" key in the top row of keys on your keyboard. This will load the screen image into the Windows clipboard. Now open your favorite image editor and use EDIT, PASTE and voila! The image will appear!
Now lets suppose you only want the image of one window on the screen to be captured to the clipboard so you don't have to use crop which can be kind of imprecise.

Make sure the window you want to capture is the topmost window on the screen then hold down the ALT key while pressing the Print Screen key. This will capture just the topmost window on your screen and you won't have to crop to get it right.

My favorite tool to use to get a well cropped image when I need to crop from a full screen shot is LView Pro the old 16 bit version. As soon as you open it and use Edit, Paste to paste the image in, the selection tool is already selected, and Crop is really easy to find on the Edit menu. I haven't even been able to figure out how to get the selection tool and don't know where Crop is in the 32 bit version of LView Pro so I don't use it.

I stick with the old version which doesn't expire after 30 days like the new one. Sure, it only handles 8 character file names, but it's other features make up for that. You can still use it to edit files with longer names, but when you create a new file with it you must use a short file name, then rename it from within My Computer if you prefer it to have a longer file name.
 
C Ray Parrish, Cottage Grove, Oregon