winXP clipboard thingie

"John Larkin" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

The usual "Print Screen" key works fine here. Using XP.

John

"John Larkin" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

Just pressing PrtScr captures the screen OK for me with WinXP, and puts it on the Clipboard. I can then paste it into Paint without any problems.

Leon

But it doesn't do anything with a full-screen VGA display. '98 works fine.

John

If you drag with the right mouse button, upon release you'll get a pop-up menu that gives the various 'move,' 'copy,' 'create shortcut' menu, etc. This is handy if you can't quite remember what the default action is and what the Shift/Alt/Ctrl modifiers do!

I hadn't noticed the icon changing as Spehro points out, though -- that is a nice touch.

---Joel Kolstad

You can do that with Win2K too, but by default it copies files from removable or network drives rather than moving them.

You can override the default behavior and make it create a shortcut or move (or to get it to copy if it was going to move) the file by holding Shift, Alt or Ctrl when dragging the file. The icon changes to tell you what it's about to do. Very nice and intuitive if you ask me.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

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I'm pretty sure Snagit from Techsmith can do it.

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"John Larkin" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

If you hit ctrl + print screen you get the whole screen, alt+print screen gives you only the active window.

Charles

I think I know what's the problem here, full-screen mode in a DOS window? Some programs won't work unless they're in a full screen mode.

I've got a couple old DOS programs myself and they won't work under XP at all, so I installed VMWARE. This program lets you setup virtual computers under windows XP (or even linux). It basically emulates a PC with bios and everything so you install the operating system as you would otherwise and you can run linux, dos, win98, os2, nt, w2k or winxp in a window or full screen mode under your main WindowsXP system.

How's this usefull here? Well, you can place DOS session in this virtual PC into a full-screen mode and still have Virtual PC in a window (not full screen) and you can capture screen there from the main windowsXP the usual way.

Sounds a bit complicated.

Anyway, vmware works a treat for programs which won't run under xp. Also great for testing stuff out in different op. systems with just one PC. Also makes it possible to run Winxp under linux so transition to linux is smoother.

But my Superpro LX programator still won't work with my new A64 3500+ system, not even in a virtual win98 window. I guess timings were done with simple loops, making the program obsolete with latest processors.

S

OS/2 had the same feature in version 3, Spring 1993. It took MS only slightly more than 7 years to match its functionality and reliability, and with only 16 times the RAM and 16 times the disk requirements.

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This may be somewhat OT. I am using Clipmate from

It is a stacking clipboard where all the clips are saved in I into order you created them. Has its own folders, network capability with sharing. Something that windows should had from day one. I couldn't work without it.

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I still keep the Merlin installation cd, those were the days. It'd probably not install anymore now, increasing disk capacities required patches every 6-12 months or so. Not to mention chipsets. Sad. It was a great system.

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