Press the Print Screen key on your computer keyboard when you have the error that you want to capture displayed on your screen. This will copy an image of your entire desktop to the Windows clipboard so you can paste it into a graphics program or document.

Alternatively, you can type Alt-Print Screen to capture a screenshot of the active window only.

I'll show you how to save the image using Microsoft Paint, since you can find this little graphics program in all versions of Windows.

Click on the Start menu, select All Programs, Accessories, then click on Paint.

Click on the Edit menu and select Paste.

The screenshot image has been pasted into Paint. Next, we need to save the image, Click on the File menu and select Save As.

1. Select the folder on your computer where the screenshot image will be saved.
2. Type a name for the file and select a file type. I suggest using PNG, JPG, or JPEG as the type to keep the size of the screenshot file small.
3. Click Save.

The screenshot image has been saved!

You can capture an image of your entire screen by typing Command-Shift-3.

In the example above, I typed Command-Shift-3 and a new file called Picture 1 was saved to my desktop. Picture 1 contains an image of the screen at the instant I typed Command-Shift-3.

Typing Command-Shift-4 will let you choose a specific part of your screen to capture in the image. The Screenshot above was taken using Command-Shift-4. Notice I was able to select a smaller, specific part of the screen to capture in the image.
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