Tip Case

As you know PrintScreen key is for capturing a shot of current screen. Sometimes you might need to take a snapshot of current active window, but you can not find an application to do that on your desktop immediately. Let’s try PrintScreen key.

PrintScreen key has an advanced feature for capturing current active window. Now let me show you how it works.

PrintScreen key is for taking a snapshot of current windows desktop screen. But normally PrintScreen key can not capture screen at DirectX mode, or in some DirectX games. Here is a tip tell you how to activate the PrintScreen key for DirectX Mode.

First Click on the “Run” at the Start Menu, and type in “regedit” to run RegEdit program. Then open this sub key “HKEY_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\DirectDraw” and add a new DWORD value and type “1″.

Now you can use the PrintScreen to capture screen at DirectX Mode or in a directX game.