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Here's a question for you:

I often use remote desktop to connect to my office pc. Often times, I'm writing a document on the office pc and I need to include a screenshot of an application etc. Over RDP, how do I make the office pc take a screen shot and have it pasteable? When I attempt to take a screen shot over RDP, it takes a screen shot of my RDP session, (ie it's my local pc taking the screen shot, not the office pc), and the image is not pasteable by the office pc into the document.

Anyone know any tricks?
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Re: Taking screenshots of Remote Desktop

You can buy software, called Remote Screenshot, from Snapfiles, (Google search brings it up), which has a free trial.

Or, how about using the on screen keyboard (accessability in start menu), and pressing the key on the machine.

Or maybe get VNC which is better than remote desktop, (and Free to my knowledge), run a higher resolution on the machine running VNC, so that a full desktop view can be seen. then take your screenshot, and crop it down to only show that of the remote PC.
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I'll try option 2. My company's security policy would block any of your other options. Thanks.
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Re: Taking screenshots of Remote Desktop

use program called 'snag it'.
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Re: Taking screenshots of Remote Desktop

I know this thread is from like 2005, but it came up first in a google search, so I thought people might want to find the real solution here.

Remote Desktop Connection has a built in shortcut for taking a screenshot of a remote
desktop:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301583
• CTRL+ALT+Minus sign (-) (Place a snapshot of the entire client window area on the Terminal server clipboard and provide the same functionality as pressing ALT+PRINT SCREEN on a local computer.)
• CTRL+ALT+Plus sign (+) (Place a snapshot of the active window in the client on the Terminal server clipboard and provide the same functionality as pressing PRINT SCREEN on a local computer.)
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Thanks - (Was still looking for this 3 years later!)
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Re: Taking screenshots of Remote Desktop

I tried Alt+Ctrl+(plus/negative sign) and didn't work. But if you use the On-Screen Keyboard (Proprams->Accessories->On-Screen keyboard), it works great.
On the On-Screen Keyboard, click Alt, psc, and then ent. You can then paste the screenshot of the active window.

Thanks to all for this trick.
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Re: Taking screenshots of Remote Desktop
No joy with the above couple of methods but what I did have joy with was the following:

CTRL + SHIFT + PRTSC

and another really useful thing when you are remote desktoping is to know how to launch the Windows Task Manager:

CTRL + SHIFT + ESC
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Re: Taking screenshots of Remote Desktop
Click Alt on the On screen keyboard and hit TAB on your actual keyboard to toggle between the running applications on the Remote Desktop. Click Alt on the On screen keyboard again to select the desired application.
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Re: Taking screenshots of Remote Desktop
For me the on screen keypad's PrntScreen button transferred to my Windows 7 box the screenshot on my clipboard.
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