DnPresident said:
I'm almost ashamed to ask but where's the clip board? I see the prtsc button and pushed it but It's not on the notepad and as for a clip board I'm not sure where that is.
The clipboard is kind of 'invisible'; it's a small part of your computer's memory that's designated to hold whatever you cut or copy, including a screen shot. The clipboard automatically holds the screenshot or whatever you just cut/copy, until you actually paste it into something. In your case, you won't see a screenshot appear anywhere, you actually have to open an image program like paint or photoshop (not notepad, like you mentioned), make sure there's a new/blank document open, then hit Edit - 'paste', and the image or whatever's on your invisible clipboard will magically appear. If you don't click 'paste' then you won't see your image.
If you're doing all the above exactly, and there's still no screenshot pasted into your image program, then go back to the beginning and try pressing Ctrl + Alt + PrtSc and then following through the rest, some computers need those modifying keys to grab the screenshot.
If you're on a Mac, it works differently, there are keyboard shortcuts and then the screenshot is placed automatically as an image file into your HD folder.
Take note that since the clipboard is a memory function, when you turn off your computer the clipboard is emptied, and when you restart the computer whatever was on the clipboard is gone. Also note that, while the computer is on, whatever you put on your clipboard will STAY there until you cut or copy something else to the clipboard; in other words, once it's there, you can paste it into a billion documents over and over... until you replace it with something else.
