my print screen button isn't working -_-

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help? how do i get windows to use it ?

note: i have vista

It works the same no matter if you have vista or XP. If you hit print screen and then you open up Paint and then hit Control and V at the same time it will paste your screen.

it doesnt work, i did what u said but still it didnt work

Let me explain by pokédexing this out.
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The print screen key has a long history. Origanally, it actually sent all text on the screen to the printer, if you had one connnected. If there was no printer, the computer virtually froze, helping the programmers of DOSes create, Control+C, or the universal stop. Then, came Windows 3.0. With Windows, there was no direct printing of the screen to the printer, unless you were to paste it into an program like Paint, and then have it printed. Years go by. Now, to utilise the printscreen key properly, you need to know what it does today. Printscreen take a 'virtual' snapshot of whatever is on display, and until recently, placed it in a virtual clipbord....but here are the simple steps to get this over with.
1. What you want printscreened shoud be on monitor.
2. Now simply press the printscreen key and release.
3. Open paint. (Start, Programs, accesorys, and paint.)
4.With paint open, go to Edit, and then paste
5.Done!

I don't know!

Some websites somehow disable it to keep you from stealing thier stuff. I know, I've been doing it for years, now it won't work in some places.
If you can't right click the site, they may have disabled the print screen option.

If your browser would enable websites to turn of, or otherwise influence the operation of your system, you seriously need to go look for another browser.

omg im so stupid.

problem solved. i wasnt pressing the funtion button

Great!

Eh, don't take it too harshly. We all make mistakes like that. Like pressing enter instead of space, right clicking when meaning to left. Computers were designed to help, but sometimes, they would be better off as paperweights.

...or only having a command line interface!