RE: Alt+PrintScreen in Remote Desktop

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

Works like a charm -- thank you, Sandy!

(I shoulda Googled <handslap to forehead>)


-----Original Message-----
From: Sandy Shew 
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 1:13 PM
To: Dan Goldstein
Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: Alt+PrintScreen in Remote Desktop

Ctrl-Alt-Minus sign(-)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa383500%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

(doesn't seem to work if the remote session is full screen)

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Dan Goldstein
<DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> wrote:
> In normal use, Alt+PrintScreen captures just the active window (as 
> opposed to PrintScreen, which captures the full screen).
>
> I use Remote Desktop a lot, and I use it in "windowed" mode (as 
> opposed to full screen), in order to be able to alt+tab between Remote

> Desktop and other windows. The problem is, when Remote Desktop is 
> windowed,
> Alt+PrintScreen captures the whole Remote Desktop screen and not just
> the active window. This makes sense, since from Windows' point of 
> view, the whole Remote Desktop screen *is* the active window.
>
> The question is, how do I capture just the active window within the 
> Remote Desktop?
>



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