How to take and post screenshots - The Definitive Answer

[TeamStar]

Of course it doesn't work in Windows like it does on MacOS, that's exactly my problem. By the way, I think I'm not running Windows virtually, it's actually running natively.

[Coconut Kid]

Of course it doesn't work in Windows like it does on MacOS, that's exactly my problem. By the way, I think I'm not running Windows virtually, it's actually running natively.

O.K. That little bit of information may help someone with more smarts than me - obiviously.

Since you are running Microsoft Windows natively, perhaps it may redefine your keyboard to look like a "Windows Keyboard."

It appears from the picture that your keyboard is a minimal keyboard such as is found on a "laptop." I do not have a laptop, so I can not locate Windows keys on a laptop.

However it appears that some of the top rows of keys on your machine are 14 in number. It accidently appears that on my keyboard, the far right number 14 key on the top row is the "Print Screen" key. Of course, that makes no difference to your native running Windows. Why should it?

After looking about a bit on Apple Support, I think that indeed Apple stuff redefines the keyboard, and that the "Apple Logo" keys are important in using the different keyboard layouts.

I am glad to have gained an essential introduction to Apple stuff. I shall never buy an apple product for any reason, but most particularly because someone says it can run Microsoft Windows and is "simpler" than what Microsoft sells. Apple Support has just as much, if not more, garbledook articles about how to sort over the bones of the operating systems than Microsoft does.

Wretched stuff which can't translate how to take a "screen shot" from one OS to another.

[TeamStar]

Since you are running Microsoft Windows natively, perhaps it may redefine your keyboard to look like a "Windows Keyboard."

Indeed it does redefine the keyboard, but it doesn't add a new one for printscreen, the b*stard! Apple has long adopted the Cmd+shift+3 for screenshots.

However it appears that some of the top rows of keys on your machine are 14 in number. It accidently appears that on my keyboard, the far right number 14 key on the top row is the "Print Screen" key.

"Esc" key on far left, "Eject" key on far right, 12 "F" keys in the middle.

After looking about a bit on Apple Support, I think that indeed Apple stuff redefines the keyboard, and that the "Apple Logo" keys are important in using the different keyboard layouts.

Sounds important, I'll have a look at that. When pressed, the "Command" or "Apple" key (your Apple Logo key) pops up the Windows "Start" menu.

I am glad to have gained an essential introduction to Apple stuff. I shall never buy an apple product for any reason, but most particularly because someone says it can run Microsoft Windows and is "simpler" than what Microsoft sells. Apple Support has just as much, if not more, garbledook articles about how to sort over the bones of the operating systems than Microsoft does.

We all have our sympathies. I have the same feelings about Microsoft, but I truly believe that the market quota should be inverted.

I mean, people in general should be using MacOS -- a more task-oriented system (just do the stuff you have to do), leaving Windows for the computer-geeks niche, the keyboard-short-cutting-virtuosos niche and the let's-find-a-way-to-work-around-this-obstacle niche.

Now that I'm using both systems at the same time, I came to the conclusion that 85% of the personal-computer market is actually buying a bad product.

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Now, what about that print screen shortcut key Does anyone knows one, or I'll have to download some freeware?

[Coconut Kid]

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However it appears that some of the top rows of keys on your machine are 14 in number. It accidently appears that on my keyboard, the far right number 14 key on the top row is the "Print Screen" key.

"Esc" key on far left, "Eject" key on far right, 12 "F" keys in the middle. ...

I have no idea of what an Eject key might do. It sounds like my chair and I might be fired out through the roof of my house as if I were the pilot of a jet fighter airplane. What it does indicate to me more rationally is that the "redefinition" of the keyboard between Apple and Microsoft is not clearly defined. Perhaps it should be called a "Transvestite" keyboard. You can find the "hot buttons" only by -- well let's not go too far here.

[TeamStar]

The eject key, err... ejects the CD's and DVD's on those Macs that have a slot drive. It also opens the CD's tray, on those that have one.

[Coconut Kid]

So the "eject" key doesn't get redefined.

So maybe I'm correct that what ever Microsoft does on an Apple keyboard is just Transvestite stuff.

[TeamStar]

I found this table on Apple's "Boot Camp Beta Installation & Setup Guide" (see attached picture). My keyboard features are on the right column, so I definitely don't have a print screen key.

[TeamStar]

Oopss... here's the picture.