Taking screenshots of dual-screen desktop

[Ozbert]

Does anyone know of a way with Vista to take a screenshot covering all monitors at once? I have a pair of 1920x1200 screens side-by-side and I'd like to be able to take a single 3840x1200 screenshot in one go.

At the moment, I can hit PrintScreen and my five instances of WoW will take independant screenshots that I'd then have to stitch together. Could I possibly unbind PrintScreen in WoW and let Windows take care of it?

[Saqor]

Does anyone know of a way with Vista to take a screenshot covering all monitors at once? I have a pair of 1920x1200 screens side-by-side and I'd like to be able to take a single 3840x1200 screenshot in one go.

At the moment, I can hit PrintScreen and my five instances of WoW will take independant screenshots that I'd then have to stitch together. Could I possibly unbind PrintScreen in WoW and let Windows take care of it?

Yes you should be able to do exactly that - unbind screenshots in WoW and just have the windows screenshot take it. But I'm not at home right now so can't verify it 100 %.

[zanthor]

http://www.gadwin.com/printscreen/

Unbind the printscreen key in wow and install that.

Should take care of what ya need.

[Pact]

ctrl - printscreen then open paint and hit ctrl-v (Edit. Doh fail....3am ftl)

works like a charm

Im not sure if that works if your not using windows.

[mikekim]

i have my taskbar set to auto hide, just select that when playing - let it appear then disappear press "prt scr" as you normally would, this will allow you to caputre the whole screen without joining windows together.

[zanthor]

ctrl - printscreen then open paint and hit ctrl-c

works like a charm

Im not sure if that works if your not using windows.It's ctrl-V unless you want to copy empty space in a paint doc...

Gadwins really the way to go for full screen capture, there are others out there I'm sure, but I've been using gadwin for a few years now and it's solid, spyware free, free, etc...

[Ozbert]

Installed Gadwin, configured it to capture fullscreen, unbound PrintScreen in all five WoW clients, but it only captures what's on my primary screen.

I can set it to capture a rectangular selection and select the entire desktop over both screens, but this is.... "sub-optimal" :)

Any ideas?

[Jamien]

Just press print screen.
Then click Start and type in mspaint.
paste and save and you're done.

No need to install anything

[zanthor]

Well I'll be damned, never ran across that before...

I've submitted it as a bug...

[zanthor]

Just press print screen.
Then click Start and type in mspaint.
paste and save and you're done.

No need to install anythingYea, this works great in the middle of a battle ground/arena/pve combat...

But if you want to screenshot things while you are in the thick of it...