Does anyone know a program or a way to take pictures of your desktop,without using a camera, if there are any programs out there that are capable of doing this, but are not spyware or anything like that. Thank-You

the prt scr key takes a snapshot of your desktop. open paint and choose paste to see what i mean. alt/prt scr takes a shot of the active window.

When i said desktop i meant what you see on the monitor. If you want a picture of your actual desk you will need a camera :).

Look for Printkey2000 Search Yahoo or Alta Vista or any other. It is freeware and it does what I think you want. It is a screen capture utility that takes a "picture" of exactly what you see on your monitor.

lol, thanks

Billy But doesn't Print Screen do this ? I've just done it to make sure and got exactly what I'm seeing - including this message and with bits of Background in the background Lesley

Hi Carlo! For several months I am using a free application "Capture Express", it does just what you're asking for. I have the Version 1.1 freeware. I see that they have now the Version 1.1A and asking $15 for it. This program works excellent, it puts an icon in the taskbar, you assign a hotkey and you can take a snapshot out of every screen you have on your monitor. You can capture just a face out of a group, a part of the screen or the whole screen. You can save it in jpg, Bmp and other formats. You can capture a square, rectangle, Circle, Star, Triangle, Ellipse, etc. with colored background or without. Even $15 is very well spent for a nice little program like this one. Here is the site to download. http://www.captureexpress.com/download.htm Cheers de Peter