Comments on: Vista UAC Prevents Print Screen

By: rocksister

rocksister — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:52:43 +0000

None of these work for me. I have no FN key. Print Screen does nothing, either with Ctrl, Alt, Shift, nothing. Turning off UAC did nothing, and yes, I restarted, numerous times. Snippit is worthless, I despise it. I’d rather use a camera. I desperately need Print Screen like I had with XP. Will changing keyboards have any effect? If so, how will I know the new one will work any better?

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:26:06 +0000

It works for me.

Simply hold your function key and push print screen and paste in paint….

not that hard

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:59:37 +0000

I gave up and used SnagIt.

By: c

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:07:01 +0000

Don’t use a camera to capture screen, the quality is horrible.
Use virtualization softwares (ex: VMWare, VirtualPC, VirtualBOX…), than you’ll be able to capture any hi-quality screenshot of your guest OS.

By: Darv

Darv — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 06:11:39 +0000

Nouhad,

Not quite that simple. If a UAC dialog appear, the Snipping Tool is unavailabe as is the Start Menu. To see this, right click on any desktop icon and choose Run As Administrator. When the prompt comes up asking you to continue, try to access the Snipping Tool.

If I am missing a way around this please let me know.

Cheers,
darv

By: Nouhad

Nouhad — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:23:34 +0000

in Vista , in start menu (search area )type snipping tool , then click on it and capture the image with your cursor

This is SIMPLE

By: cheryl

cheryl — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:27:26 +0000

in vista, go to (1) control panel; (2) user accounts; and (3) in the left pane at the bottom it says “turn user account controls on or off”; click on that link and take the check mark out of the box to turn UAC off. easy enough now.

By: Ramil

Ramil — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:08:58 +0000

I don’t have the time to look this up now but there’s a secpol.msc package for Vista Home/Premium users — basically it is all the secpol files (msc, dlls, configs, etc.) that you need to copy to specific folders on your machine. After all is done, you’ll get secpol on your vista home machine. Try googling for that. Thanks!

Ramil

By: clay

clay — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:14:52 +0000

I’d say this stuff is NOT simple.
none of the directories shown in any of the above comments are on my machine. I have Vista Home Premium.
gpedit.msc does not seem to exist.
secpol.msc does not seem to exist.
there is no “computer/user configuration” directory.
There is no “local policies” directory.

How are you supposed to access this stuff?
There is no

By: Darv

Darv — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:36:32 +0000

I found it to be quite “SIMPLE” but then I find Windows pretty straight forward.

Thanks Jerry for the tip. Worked like a charm and gave us the ability to grab some important screen shots in our QA Lab.

-Darv