Video capture & Printscreen problem

[thewolfe]

Video capture & Printscreen problem

I can use PrintScreen on Windows Media Player and it works on my XP laptop but won't work on my XP desktop.
Also, I can edit Moviemaker on my laptop but it freezes up on my desktop.

Codex?? Any ideas.

[Sylvander]

In the XP installation on the desktop PC...

Has the Clipbook Viewer been included as part of the Windows XP installation?

See this. (http://www.pctoday.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles%2F2004%2Ft0208%2F11t0 8%2F11t08.asp)

[thewolfe]

Although I don't think I have ever used it, I see it in the System 32 folder.

[Sylvander]

You use it [without knowing] every time you copy and paste etc. :)

Without it being installed [and functional] you cannot do these things.
It provides the memory location that things get saved to and copied from.

e.g. Whenever you hit 1=Print Screen or 2=Alt+Print Screen, an image of 1=[the whole screen] or 2=[the current window] is saved in the 3=Clipbook Viewer storage memory location.
When you then paste the image into Paint [or whatever], the image is retrieved from 3.

Have you tried viewing the contents of the Clipbook Viewer after something has been copied to it?
What do you see?
In my Win2000Pro I have both a "Clipboard" and a "Local Clipbook".
If I have my Clipboard open, and then hit Alt+Print Screen, the image of my active window appears in the clipboard window.
I go to the "Window" menu and tick "Clipboard" to display the Clipboard window rather than the Local Clipbook.
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