image of the current screen to your Clipboard and paste it into Paint or whatever photo/picture editing software you have or you can use the built-in Vista Snipping tool. To use this do the following:
To start the Snipping Tool please follow these steps:
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Click on the
Start button to open your Start Menu. The Start button looks like this:
- Then click on the All Programs menu option.
- Then click on the Accessories group
- Finally click on the bulletin Snipping Tool icon which looks like this:
The snipping tool should now be started and you will see a screen similar to the one below.

Snipping Tool Main Screen
It's pretty easy to use, you can alter it to take a free form snip of your screen or the entire screen or a Rectangular snip.

For some extra instructions on how to use this great Free tool, check out this LINK to Microsoft with instructions and tips. Hope this helps.