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Screen Shots

Microsoft Windows
On [|Microsoft Windows], pressing [|Print Screen] captures a screenshot of the entire desktop and places it in the [|clipboard], while Alt +Print Screen captures only the [|active window]. In most versions of Windows, captured screenshots do not include the mouse pointer. Once captured, the screenshot must be pasted from the clipboard into a separate program, such as [|Paint] or [|Word], in order to be viewed or saved. Some programs, however, particularly multiplayer online games, will automatically save screenshots in a specified folder. As of [|Windows XP] (or any version based on [|Windows NT]), it is no longer possible to take screenshots of full-screen DOS windows without other software. Video content in programs using a [|hardware overlay] video renderer is not captured by the method described above.[|[][|2][|]] [|Windows Media Player] on Windows XP in its default configuration on supported hardware is affected by this. However, some third-party applications can capture overlay images. [|Windows Vista] and [|Windows 7] include a utility called [|Snipping Tool], first introduced in [|Windows XP Tablet PC Edition]. It is a screen-capture tool, that allows for taking screenshots (called snips) of windows, rectangular areas, or a free-form area. Snips can then be annotated, saved as an image file or as an HTML page, or emailed. However, it does not work with non-tablet XP versions but represents an XP compatible equivalent. [|Windows 7] also provides a "problem steps recorder" ([|psr]). This will record a screenshot every time you click on your screen. When stopped it creates MHTML document with all the screenshots inside.