Vistablogged

Every once in a while you need to take screen shots of your screen. More often than not these have to be a part of your screen. In Windows XP (unless you have a Tablet PC edition), the only way to do this natively was to do a Print Screen (or a Ctrl+Print Screen) to capture the screen (or a window); then edit it in paint or something similar to get hold of the desired part of the screen that you actually wanted to capture. Of course, you could always resort to third party software for this. I have used the excellent OneNote 2007 with its simple to use rectangular screen capture feature which can be triggered by pressing the Windows Key + S. I have also used the much more versatile WinSnap for my needs. We no longer need to do any of the above in Vista.

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