Print Screen Not Working

[Sean South]

Print screen stoped working on my laptop, you know you press Ctrl and PrtSc and can past the screen in Photoshop or paint. I have windows Vista don't really know a whole pile about computers. Any ideas how to get it working again?

[John83]

On a laptop, print screen is sometimes a function key. Try Fn + PrtScr.

Another common problem occurs if there's an f-lock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-Lock) key on your keyboard and you've turned it on by accident. Print screen won't work while it's on.

A pain in the ass fix is to reinstall the keyboard drivers on your computer. (Google the laptop model and "keyboard drivers").

If you can't get no satisfaction, there are alternative programs to do the same job: http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-screen-capture-utility.htm has a good comparison.

[strangeirish]

Here's another one if you can't get it sorted...

http://www.gadwin.com/download/

The one at the bottom is the one you need.

[Sean South]

Thanks lads.

Fn + PrtScr doesn't work like I said don't really have a clue about this kind of stuff I think there might be a problem the that F lock yoke. I'll down load those tomorrow see how it goes.