Screen Dumps

[Guest]

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hi,

I know how to do a screen dump using prnt screen button,,,,

but is it possible to take a dump of just error message boxes??

Any help would be appreciated

 

[Aaron McKenna]

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ALT+PrintSCRN will take a shot of the active window

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"ne5" <ne5@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> hi,
>
> I know how to do a screen dump using prnt screen button,,,,
>
> but is it possible to take a dump of just error message boxes??
>
> Any help would be appreciated

 

[Guest]

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ne5 wrote:

> I know how to do a screen dump using prnt screen button,,,,
>
> but is it possible to take a dump of just error message boxes??
>
> Any help would be appreciated
Hi,

Be sure that the error message have focus, and then press Alt+PrintScreen

Also note that on many error message boxes you can extract text only by
pressing Ctrl+C



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