INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO TAKE A SCREENSHOT ON YOUR WINDOWS XP COMPUTER

One day, a friend told me he wanted to sign-up with Limewire Pro because he wanted to have the convenience of downloading all his favorite songs and music videos on his laptop and then upload them to his ipod and cellphone.

He asked for my help on how to download the software and how to download the songs and music videos to his windows xp desktop computer. He has a very limited know-how about computer operation so he said he really needed my assistance.

It was really, really tough because we even went to the basics. I asked him to type the URL for Limewire Pro in the browser and told him that this is where he can sign up and download the software. When the Limewire Pro page opened, I asked him to click on the download button. He said he was not seeing a download button. I wanted to ask him to read to me everything written on the screen to get a picture of what's in there. On the second thought, I said it was time consuming. To make things easier, I took a screenshot on the page where I was looking at, encircle the buttons that he needed to click and marked #1 for the button that he has to click first, #2 ,#3 and so on and so forth and then he has to use that screenshot as a guide. His screen should look like exactly how it looked on the screenshot I sent him. It helped a lot and I am glad I have the knowledge to do it. Now, I want to share this to my readers and hope to be of help to their daily computer needs.

Anyways, Some of you might ask "how did I take the screenshot of that page?". Well, below are simple steps on How to Take A Screenshot on your Windows XP Computer.

Remember, this is only for Windows XP Users.

Steps on How To Take A Screenshot On Windows XP Computer

Step 1 : Open the page and scroll to the portion of the page where you want to take the screenshot.

Step 2 : Look at your keyboard. On the upper keys where it says Esc on the right hand side, then F1,F2,F3......... look towards the other end on the same line and you can see a key where it says "Print Screen". In Laptops it usually says "Prt Sc". Click that key.

Step 3 : On the lower left hand side of you computer, you will see "Start Menu". Click that button. A new window pops up and click "All Programs", another window pops up and put your mouse over the word "Accessories" then a small rectangular window opens on the side of it, look for "Paint" and click it.

Step 4 : On the "Paint" window, click on "Edit" then "Paste" and the screenshot of the page you captured earlier will appear. If you only use a certain part of the whole thing being captured, you have to "Crop" the picture. To do this, click on the "Selection Tool" choose the area you want to crop, right click to cut.

Step 5 :On File menu, click new to open a new page then click paste. This time, you will be getting the picture of what you only need for your project.

Step 6 : Click on the File menu again then click save and you're done.

Note :

For those who have photo editing software like Adobe Photoshop, Corel Paint Shop Pro, Ulead Photo Impact and more, you can save it there for better editing features.

Always consider the size of the screenshot you captured. If you take the whole screen then it comes on a larger size so uploading or downloading that file could be frustrating. Always consider resizing the picture using software editing tools. If you are on a tight budget and can not afford to buy it, just google for some free editing tools available over the internet.