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Windows 95 Misc

Capturing and Printing the Active Window

SUMMARY: How to quickly and easily dump Windows 95 application screens to the printer.

Thanks to MalekTips reader Beth Healy Donovan for providing this great tip.

With Windows 95, to capture the active window for printing, just click one time on the desired window. Press and hold down the ALT key while tapping the Print Screen (PrtScr) key. This puts the screen in the Clipboard. Now, run the program MSPaint and choose the "Edit " menu, selecting "Paste." Then, you can print that window you selected as you would any other document.

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