Is there an easy to reconfigure print screen to capture screen 1?

Metspitzer wrote:

Is there an easy to reconfigure print screen to capture screen 1?

Don't see any key combos that differentiate a screen capture based on
which screen it is displayed mentioned at:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301583

Do you have to capture the entire screen? If not, use Alt+PrtScrn to
capture the contents of just the currently active window (the one that
has focus).

Otherwise, get a screen capture utility (many are free) so you can
select a region to capture which could be a piece of a window, a window,
or a portion or all of the desktop in one screen. While I don't use it
but keep it in reserve should I want it, PicPick seems pretty good. I
can't see that it works with dual monitors.

P.S. I'm assuming "screen 1" means you have multiple *monitors* with a
screen on each rather than some virtual desktop manager that shows you
multiple screens for your desktop but do so within ONE monitor, like
Microsoft's Desktop Manager powertoy for Windows XP at
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/...-xp?T1=PT.

On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:02:04 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

Metspitzer wrote:

Is there an easy to reconfigure print screen to capture screen 1?

Don't see any key combos that differentiate a screen capture based on
which screen it is displayed mentioned at:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301583

Do you have to capture the entire screen? If not, use Alt+PrtScrn to
capture the contents of just the currently active window (the one that
has focus).

Otherwise, get a screen capture utility (many are free) so you can
select a region to capture which could be a piece of a window, a window,
or a portion or all of the desktop in one screen. While I don't use it
but keep it in reserve should I want it, PicPick seems pretty good. I
can't see that it works with dual monitors.

P.S. I'm assuming "screen 1" means you have multiple *monitors* with a
screen on each rather than some virtual desktop manager that shows you
multiple screens for your desktop but do so within ONE monitor, like
Microsoft's Desktop Manager powertoy for Windows XP at
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/...-xp?T1=PT.

I do what you suggest for most situations, and I can't think of an
example at the moment, but there have been times when moving the mouse
causes what ever I am trying to capture to go away.

I do use Clipmate, and it will allow you to assign cntr+ or alt+ and
something else to capture many things, but I can't configure it to
assign a single press key to a screen capture.

Thanks

Yes I do use two monitors.

Metspitzer wrote:

Is there an easy to reconfigure print screen to capture screen 1?

Not that I know of with the built in Prtscn one.
Irfan can do what you want, and a lot more.

Paul wrote:

Metspitzer wrote:

Is there an easy to reconfigure print screen to capture screen 1?

Not that I know of with the built in Prtscn one.
Irfan can do what you want, and a lot more.

Irfanview has a Windows hotkey always available to do a screen/region/
window capture? I don't see that configurable option.

The OP also wants just a single keypress, like an always-resident
utility that usurps the PrtScrn key. He doesn't like key combos (to
eliminate conflicts with other software) and claims moving the mouse
(like when selecting a region or clicking on a window to select it for
capture) causes his screen to change so he can't capture what he saw at
the time.

Metspitzer wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:

Metspitzer wrote:

Is there an easy to reconfigure print screen to capture screen 1?

Get a screen capture utility (many are free) ...

I do what you suggest for most situations, and I can't think of an
example at the moment, but there have been times when moving the
mouse causes what ever I am trying to capture to go away.

I do use Clipmate, and it will allow you to assign cntr+ or alt+ and
something else to capture many things, but I can't configure it to
assign a single press key to a screen capture.

The PicPick utility that I mentioned does let you define the PrtScrn
key as its own hotkey. In fact, that's the default config when the
program is loaded. The PrtScrn key changes to a fullscreen capture to
the PicPick program instead of to the Windows clipboard. All its
capture methods (fullscreen, active window, window control, scrolling
window, region, fixed region, freehand region, repeat last capture) use
a key combo with the PrtScrn key (but you can change the non-control
key to use in the key combo). It's free for personal use.

I also have ClipMate which has region and active window capture which
has sufficed in the vast majority of scenarios where I had to capture
something. I have used PicPick (mostly its freehand capture) and found
it a very capable screen capture utility. Consumes 12.5MB of memory.

In the configuration for PicPick, there is a "Support for dual
monitors" option so it might handle which screen in which to capture
based on which monitor is currently the active one.