How2 Capture Screen Images:

According to Gabe Goldberg at Tiplet:

It’s often desirable or necessary to capture — that is, record into a file — what’s on your Windows screen. Windows has two basic tools for this: the Print Screen (or PrtScreen or some other variant) key captures the contents of your entire Windows desktop onto the Windows Clipboard; pressing Alt and PrintScreen captures only the active program window. Sometimes one of these choices is exactly what you need.

He recommends two software programs:  CaptureWiz and Snagit.

[click here to read his full article]

But there is a free program that comes with Windows Vista [I’m not sure about XP] that works fine.  When you click it your entire screen goes translucent and your mouse cursor changes to a framing tool.  You just left click and drag to frame whatever's on your screen: a section of a webpage in your internet browser, a picture or text in a .pdf or Word document, a part of your desktop or even your entire screen.  When you let go of the left-click-drag a window opens up that contains your picture with the option to add text, highlight, copy to the clipboard or save as a .jpg graphic file.  Just look under ‘ Start<>Programs<>Accessories for ‘Snipping Tool.’

GlenDL