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Old August 30th, 2017, 10:17 AM
Guerri Stevens
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Default [Dixonary] OT: Print Screen

I have just spent about an hour trying to get information from the User
Guide or whatever it's called these days, for my computer.The blasted
thing is in .PDF format which has been upgraded, revised, and "improved"
so that not only is one dealing with the computer itself, but one is
dealing with the software that will allow one to read the instruction
manual, but I digress.

Here is my question: recently I wanted to print the information
displayed on my computer's screen.

Along the top of my keyboard there are the usual keys: F1, F2, etc. At
the far right is a key labeled PRTSC at the top with SYSRQ below it. I
suspected that PRTSC might stand for Print Screen. Of course I might be
wrong about that. Being, apparently, a fairly stupid person, I figured
that I might bring up the computer's User Guide and do a search for
PRTSC. Not knowing, of course, that in order to use the user guide in
any meaningful way, I would have to get a user guide for using the .PDF
format files.

I am guessing that, assuming that PRTSC does indeed mean "print screen",
one has to press that button along with some other key. Likely choices
might be shift, ctrl, alt, and maybe FN. There is also a button for that
stylized "windows" symbol. I make the assumption that another key is
needed because (another assumption) the key has two function, one of
which is PRTSC and the other of which is SYSRQ.

Can any of you shed any light on this?

In case it matters, the computer is a Toshiba Satellite laptop that I
have had for years, without ever before wanting to print the screen. I
actually have a newer computer, but have never fully put it in service,
having apparently reached the age at which I am no longer jumping up and
down with the excitement of having a new machine. Instead I just think
of the need to transfer everything onto the new machine, which of course
has a newer version of Windows which will undoubtedly be "improved". I
could switch to an Apple product, but so far Apple and I have never
gotten along.

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Guerri

P.S. it is, of course, possible that I should be spending my time
looking into assisted living facilities.

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