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See Dick and Jane Capture and Post a Screen Image to the Forum: an image posting primer! 
To 'capture' application screens, you click on them so they are the 'active window', then hit the <ALT><Prt Scr> combination (anther handy one is <CTRL><Prt Scr> - captures the whole desktop image...), which puts the screen image onto the clipboard; then, open Paint (or any other graphics program you're familiar with) and either do Edit/Paste, or a <CTRL><V>, to paste the image; save it with a File/SaveAs with the Jpeg file type selected (.JPG), and you'll be ready to post it.
To post the images, the first thing you want to do is go to ImageShack: http://imageshack.us/
and create an account (it's FREE) for yourself (and save a bookmark - I use it so often, that I keep the shortcut to it on my desktop - but then I've got a lot of desktop [four monitors worth - 😍 ]); there are any number of these file and picture 'sharing' services (I use MediaFire for sharing files like BIOS and drivers here...), but ImageShack seems to have a minimum of intrusive crappola, and seems to dependably 'keep' your files; if you want to use a different one, this should give you a pretty good general idea of 'what to do'...
Once you're registered, going to the site will 'pop' this screen:
Click on the 'Browse...' button, and find your image file; once you've selected it, a click on the orange outlined 'start upload!' button will get it up there, and it will go to this screen:
Click in the window labelled 'Hotlink for forums (1)' (encirled in green in the illustration...), and copy & paste it to your post - it will look like this:
{URL=http://img41.imageshack.us/i/0119w.jpg/}{IMG}http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/7635/0119w.jpg{/IMG}{/URL}
(I have replaced the square braces with curly ones, just for illustration; otherwise you'd not see the line, just the underlying picture!)
Then, if you want to post another picture, click on the (red encircled) 'Upload another image' item, which will return you to the first screen -
-and that's it!
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Another thing that will work, is to only copy the part in green:
{URL=http://img41.imageshack.us/i/0119w.jpg/}{IMG}http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/7635/0119w.jpg{/IMG}{/URL}
and paste it to your post...
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Yet another way, is to only copy this part in green:
{URL=http://img41.imageshack.us/i/0119w.jpg/}{IMG}http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/7635/0119w.jpg{/IMG}{/URL}
and click on the 'picture thingie' atop the posting window:
which will 'pop' this window:
where you simply paste on top of the 'undefined', and click OK. To use this method, however, requires that you enable 'scripted controls' in IE:
Click your way 'in' to InternetExplorer - Tools-> InternetOptions-> 'Security tab':
Click on 'Custom Level':
scroll down to "Allow websites to prompt for information using scripted windows", and click 'Enable' - then 'OK' and save the settings... A little more difficult, but a little more elegant
To 'capture' application screens, you click on them so they are the 'active window', then hit the <ALT><Prt Scr> combination (anther handy one is <CTRL><Prt Scr> - captures the whole desktop image...), which puts the screen image onto the clipboard; then, open Paint (or any other graphics program you're familiar with) and either do Edit/Paste, or a <CTRL><V>, to paste the image; save it with a File/SaveAs with the Jpeg file type selected (.JPG), and you'll be ready to post it.
To post the images, the first thing you want to do is go to ImageShack: http://imageshack.us/
and create an account (it's FREE) for yourself (and save a bookmark - I use it so often, that I keep the shortcut to it on my desktop - but then I've got a lot of desktop [four monitors worth - 😍 ]); there are any number of these file and picture 'sharing' services (I use MediaFire for sharing files like BIOS and drivers here...), but ImageShack seems to have a minimum of intrusive crappola, and seems to dependably 'keep' your files; if you want to use a different one, this should give you a pretty good general idea of 'what to do'...
Once you're registered, going to the site will 'pop' this screen:
Click on the 'Browse...' button, and find your image file; once you've selected it, a click on the orange outlined 'start upload!' button will get it up there, and it will go to this screen:
Click in the window labelled 'Hotlink for forums (1)' (encirled in green in the illustration...), and copy & paste it to your post - it will look like this:
{URL=http://img41.imageshack.us/i/0119w.jpg/}{IMG}http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/7635/0119w.jpg{/IMG}{/URL}
(I have replaced the square braces with curly ones, just for illustration; otherwise you'd not see the line, just the underlying picture!)
Then, if you want to post another picture, click on the (red encircled) 'Upload another image' item, which will return you to the first screen -
-and that's it!
==============================================
Another thing that will work, is to only copy the part in green:
{URL=http://img41.imageshack.us/i/0119w.jpg/}{IMG}http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/7635/0119w.jpg{/IMG}{/URL}
and paste it to your post...
===================================
Yet another way, is to only copy this part in green:
{URL=http://img41.imageshack.us/i/0119w.jpg/}{IMG}http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/7635/0119w.jpg{/IMG}{/URL}
and click on the 'picture thingie' atop the posting window:
which will 'pop' this window:
where you simply paste on top of the 'undefined', and click OK. To use this method, however, requires that you enable 'scripted controls' in IE:
Click your way 'in' to InternetExplorer - Tools-> InternetOptions-> 'Security tab':
Click on 'Custom Level':
scroll down to "Allow websites to prompt for information using scripted windows", and click 'Enable' - then 'OK' and save the settings... A little more difficult, but a little more elegant
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