hi e
first of all, here's a post on the ways i like to use print screen (full and partial screen captures) #reply-14884549 .
next, here's a how-to on print screen. note that the piece says for w95 & w98. i'm guessing it's the same for winme. maybe someone else will tell us if it is not. the tip at the end is for currently active window only. it's quite useful. <g>
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"The easiest way to create a full-screen capture in Win95,
98 or NT 4.0 is still by pressing the Print Screen key.
That action sends a copy of the screen to the Clipboard.
To view the capture, select Start/Run, type mspaint and
press Enter. Once Paint opens, select Edit/Paste to paste
the image from the Clipboard into the Paint window. Choose
File/Save As to name and save it as a BMP file. (If Paint
isn't installed on your PC, you can use another image program,
or install Paint from the Add/Remove Programs applet. Open
the Windows Setup tab, double-click on Accessories, select
Paint and click on OK.)
(Tip-in-a-tip: If you're printing an entire screen, switch to
Landscape mode first--select File, Page Setup, select Landscape, and
click OK--so the image will fit on a standard letter-size page.)
(Another tip-in-a-tip: Hold down Alt as you press Print Screen to send
only the currently active window to the Clipboard.)"
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re, "you say to save network settings. Can you tell me how to do that? Print Screen I have something on in my How To folder, but what will I be printing?"
yes i can. i went to a winme tech support site so that i can give you the proper clickstream sequence. hope fully i have written them down correctly for you.
essentially, wherever you encounter a dialog box (window) of info that looks like communication settings, do a partial print screen. then you can reference these pages when setting up your new system.
okay, follow this....
start\control panel\dial up networking\my connection
this will take you to the 'connect to' dialog. print that.
click the 'dial properties' button and print the screen you see next, then return to previous dialog, 'connect to'.
click 'properties' button. this is a good one for you to be saving. you'll see six tabs... general, networking, security, scripting, multilink and dialing.
print the 'general' dialog. click the 'configure' button on that page and note that this produces three more tabs... general, connection and options. print them all, including the 'port settings' and 'advanced' dialogs found on the 'connection' page.
back to the six tabs. click on 'networking'. print that and also click the 'TCP/IP settings' button and get that dialog too.
then back to the six tabs. the remaining four... security, scripting, multilink and dialing, are all single page prints with no additional buttons.
while this is admittedly a lot of work, and probably a little confusing if it's all new territory for you, keep in mind that armed with these printed screens, you can set your new machine's connection properties perfectly and avoid hassling with tech support. only you can say whether or not these steps are ultimately worth your time. <g>
finally, i note that you remarked in another post that the guy coming to install the drive could set up your pc, and you asked, "Would that be so very wrong of me....?"
heck no! there's no wrong or right in what each of us decides to take on ourselves and what we decide to 'farm out'. we are definitely not trying to reinvent the wheel around here, and you'll get no flack from me or others, e, if you have someone do your work. i mean that.
time for another cup of coffee.
hope this helps
:)
mark |
