Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

My experience with the "print screen" button is that after you press the key, your screen snip is stored on the clipboard and you must then paste it to another program, such as Word or Paint.

Tonight I accidentally discovered that if Picasa is open, when I hit the print screen button, a tab shows up on the right-hand side of the screen saying "screen shot saved, click to view." That takes me to the image in Picasa where I can then edit, do a "save as jpg," etc.

Is this a Windows 8 function that works with other photo editing programs as well? Pretty handy, if so.

I did read online that Windows 8 screen shots are saved to a folder in My Pictures, I think as png or bmp. However, I discovered my "screen captures" folder (slightly different name) as a sub-folder of a folder called Picasa.

Let me know what you know!

rhin0ski Loc: Boise, Idaho

I have Windows 7 64 bit and when I do a print screen with Picasa open, Windows says that Picasa is not responding. After a few minutes, a screen shot does get created in a folder called "Screen Captures". It seems that the first one takes a long time to process (Picasa not responding), but subsequent screen shots happen almost immediately.

Wall-E Loc: Phoenix, AZ

You can also set Picasa Viewer to be the default image viewer for Windoze.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Well now that is interesting! Thanks rhin0ski.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Thanks Wall-E. LOVED your Pixar movie btw :)

Wall-E Loc: Phoenix, AZ

I thought the first part on Earth was very creative and original, then it went downhill fast into formula writing when they went to the ship.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

I mostly agree, though the theme song and scenes over the ending credits were quite delightful.