How to take a Screenshot of your computer

If you want to make an image from the view you can see on your screen, that is called a screenshot. There are several ways to do this, depending on how you want to take the image.
To copy an image of the entire screen into the clipboard, press PRT SCR on your keyboard. This is the "print screen" button and lets you paste the image into an application of your choice.

Windows Vista includes a great feature called the Snipping Tool, which not only lets you take a screenshot of any part of the screen but it will also save the image for you (which the above methods won't do). To load the tool, run SnippingTool.exe from the run menu (Press WINDOWS KEY + R to access this):