Q 02. How many ways you can create an image of the desktop? Write the steps for each process.

Answer

To create an image of the desktop we can follow two ways:

i.                     Keyboard Print Screen Facility

ii.                   Snipping Tool.

Keyboard Print Screen Facility

Pressing the Print Screen key on the keyboard takes a picture of the screen and copies it to a special area of memory called the Windows Clipboard. To create an image of the desktop-

1.                   Press the Print Screen key while we want to copy the desktop.

2.                   Open the Paint program from the Accessories sub-menu after clicking the StartAll Programs. button and the

3.                   Press Ctrl + V to get the image of desktop and save it.

Snipping Tool

This tool is new in Windows Vista by which we can copy a specific portion of the whole desktop, like a window or dialog box. Following steps should be applied for this tool-

1.       Open the Snipping Tool program from the Accessories submenu after clicking the StartAll Programs. button and the

2.       Click the drop-down arrow beside New tool in the Snipping Tool window. There are a variety of options to copy the desktop in various ways.

3.       Select one of the options from the drop-down menu and click on the desktop. It will capture the window.

4.       Now we can copy and save the image from here.