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Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition
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any screen. When the pop-up menu appears, choose
System. When the System window appears, look near
the top to see which version of Windows 8 you own:
Windows 8 (for consumers), Windows Pro (for small
businesses), Enterprise (for large businesses), or
Windows RT.
My Print Screen Key
Doesn’t Work
Contrary to its name, the Print Screen key doesn’t
shuttle a picture of your screen to your printer.
Instead, the Print Screen key (usually labeled
PrintScreen, PrtScr, or PrtSc) sends the screen’s pic-
ture to the Windows 8 memory. From there, you can
paste it into a graphics program, such as Paint, letting
the graphics program send the picture to the printer.
Windows 8 introduces something new, though:
If you want to capture an image of the entire
screen and save it as a file, press
+PrtScr.
That tells Windows to snap a picture of your current
screen and save it in your Pictures library with the
name Screenshot. (Windows saves those images in the
PNG format, if you’re interested, and it captures your
mouse pointer, as well.) Subsequent screenshots
include a number after the name, like Screenshot (2)
and Screenshot (3).
When saved, your screenshot can head for your
printer when you right-click the file and choose Print
from the pop-up menu.
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