Solved Print Screen error

[Roderunner]

Hi Folks,
When I pressed PrtSc (Print Screen) on the keyboard, open Paint, paste and save as... the pictures are shrunk for some reason. View attachment Images.zip

 

[Arc]

You have got the paint window extremely large Nothing serious ! You may fix it using two of the alternatives !!

First, slide the both horizontal and vertical sliders of the paint window to to bottom right ...

Until you see the small white dot at the bottom right corner

Click on the white dot, drag insige towards top left, until it is small enough like this one ...


Alternatively, after pasting the screen in the paint window, just press the crop button


Hope it works

 

[Roderunner]

You have got the paint window extremely large Nothing serious ! You may fix it using two of the alternatives !!

First, slide the both horizontal and vertical sliders of the paint window to to bottom right ...
View attachment 191642
Until you see the small white dot at the bottom right corner
View attachment 191643
Click on the white dot, drag insige towards top left, until it is small enough like this one ...
View attachment 191644

Alternatively, after pasting the screen in the paint window, just press the crop button

Hope it works

This is what it does on my 'Desktop' PC. View attachment Desktop.zip

 

[Arc]

This is what it does on my 'Desktop' PC. View attachment 191647

So the trick worked for you ?

 

[Roderunner]

This is what it does on my 'Desktop' PC. View attachment 191647

So the trick worked for you ?

Wrong. The first ones were on my Laptop second one on my desktop pc.

 

[Qdos]

Since your screen resolution is 1600 x 900 and your 'desktop' screenshot is 1360 x 768 are you sure you haven't mixed up your desktop capture with a netbook/laptop capture? Or are you also pressing Alt at the same time as you hit PrtSc perhaps?

 

[Arc]

After you posted this,

Wrong. The first ones were on my Laptop second one on my desktop pc.

I tried myself a few times with increasing the canvas area, the crop button removed the white extra space everytime. Dont know why it is not working for you.

I'd suggest you to do it again. Press printscreen button, open paint and click on paste, and then click crop, while the selection around the paste area is active.

 

[mickey megabyte]

...or, as a workaround, use the snipping tool instead for screenies.

 

[Roderunner]

Thanks for all replies. I still don't know what caused my problem, but managed to fix it by opening 'Paint' without anything showing then clicked File > properties and default button.



Case closed.