Professor Frink Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 This may not seem like the right forum for this problem, but I am asking for a reg tweak to fix the problem, so I guess it's OK.Anyway, "ALT-Print Screen" seem to work just fine with capturing the active window. But when I just hit the "Print Screen" button, it doesn't just give me the whole screen as it should, as you can see here:For some reason it gives me a split view with my wallpaper. What the heck? And if I go to my desktop and hit "Print Screen", it does the same thing:So it does it within different windows, and it does it with different paste methods (both Paint and Word). What is wrong, and how can I apply a tweak to fix it?Please help!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MavereX Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 LOL! Looks like your computer thinks you have dual monitors. I don't know how to fix it. I've never had dual monitors but at least I have you in the right direction... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XtremeMaC Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 well i'd look into display properties and find that option for dual viewwhich graphics card is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barradasba Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 heheh.. that´s good.use Alt - Print Screen to make a print screen only of the desired window Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Frink Posted April 16, 2004 Author Share Posted April 16, 2004 LOL! Looks like your computer thinks you have dual monitors. I don't know how to fix it. I've never had dual monitors but at least I have you in the right direction...Thanks, MavereX, that was it! This PC (Dell Optiplex GX110) has onboard video, but I use a PCI video card. But the onboard video isn't technically disabled. Dell Optiplex's (at least the GX110 model) don't allow you to disable the onboard video in the BIOS. All you can do is make the video card the primary. I don't ever remember this happening in Windows 2000, just with my new XP setup. The fix was going into the display properties and unchecking the box for video 2 saying "Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor." Is there some way to incorporate something into my unattended install to either:1. Keep that box unchecked2. Disable the onboard video in Device Manager?Hopefully I can automate this somehow, because I plan to run this unattended install on about 200 PCs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priapus Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 Hey,Did you try CTRL + Print Screen and then paste it to MSPAINT.This should take the whole Window... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 2. Disable the onboard video in Device ManagerYou can use devcon to do this.devcon disable <hardwareID> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XtremeMaC Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 ctrl + print screen has no effect.... its alt + print scr u're talking about which captures the active window Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newdles Posted April 17, 2004 Share Posted April 17, 2004 I say forget Print Screen and get Gadwin Printscreen It's free and easy to use. Install it, press a button, click ok, done.http://www.gadwin.com/printscreen/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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