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Capturing a copy of what is displayed on your screen can often help others to understand something you are ~~disusing~~discussing. A great example is when using the Cumulus Support forum -- if you have a problem with Cumulus, rather than simply trying to explain the issue, take a moment to capture your screen, or an element of it, and show this as part of your post on the forum. All versions of Windows have very basic screen capturing built in. It works well however has limited features. Simply press the Print Screen button (usually top right of the keyboard). This takes a copy of the entire screen and places it in your clipboard. You can then paste this into something (MS Paint, Word, etc) and save it. Pressing Alt & Print Screen captures the active window only. ==Greenshot== One of ana number of available tools for screen capture, this is very simple, effective, and free to use. This is a great all rounder for any version of Windows. Download from http://getgreenshot.org/ and install. Click File, Save As and a file type of PNG or JPG -- attach the saved file to your forum message A far more accomplished tool to get your message across. Example screen capture with an ellipse, some text and an arrow.....

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