Print Screen On Mac Keyboard For Windows In Parallels

How To Print Screen On A Mac or Macbook Pro Keyboard Running Windows This video will show you how to use the print screen function on a Macintosh keyboard running almost any version of windows! All you need to do is just press the “PrtScr” or “Print Screen” key on your keyboard, depending on which keyboard you use. After you press that key, Windows OS will automatically take a screenshot of your screen as a full-size, and save it to the clipboard.

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Follow these instructions in order to map the F13-F15 keys on an Apple USB keyboard to the functions, Print Screen, Scroll Lock, and Break commonly found on PC keyboards: 1. What is known as “Print Screen” in the Windows world is called screen captures or screen shots in Mac OS X. You’ve probably noticed there is no ‘Print Screen’ button on a Mac keyboard, this is to both simplify the keyboard and also because it’s just unnecessary.

Macbook Pro Retina or MacBook Air hasn’t been provided a “Print Screen” key by Apple which is similar to the Windows PC keyboard. However, you can easily take screenshots when running Windows (Windows 7, Windows 8.1 or Windows 10) on your MacBook. If you’re a Mac convert using Parallels to run Windows, you’re probably wondering where the Print Screen (used for screen captures in Windows) OS X is. Well, unfortunately, there’s no exact keyboard stroke for it; however equivalent; however, you can either use a third-party app like SnagIT, or go the smarter route by using the Windows built-in On-Screen Keyboard tool. I have an iMac 20 inch and play Morrowind using parallels in Windows xp O.S. So I was wondering if there is a key combo to print screen since there is no such function on the mac keyboard.

Can anyone out there tell me how to do a screen capture in Windows with a Mac keyboard plugged in? I have my Mac keyboard and mighty mouse plugged into a KVM switch that controls both my MacbookPro and my WinXP desktop. I'm having a terrible time trying to do certain things that require those extra keys like insert and print screen. Even the num-pad doesn't work! Any ideas, tips, tools, drivers?

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You could use the On-Screen Keyboard.

Start > All Programs > Accessories > Accessibility > On-Screen Keyboard

If you're trying to take a screenshot, you can do it programmatically. Take a look at this article: Programmatically Take Screenshot Using C#. Hope these ideas help.

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DonutDonut

I've got a brand new Apple extended keyboard connected to a DELL laptop running Windows 7 64-bit. This is what works for me:

F14 copies the entire screen to the clipboard.

Alt+F14 copies the active window to the clipboard.

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Windows Keyboard To Mac Keyboard

Rob VSRob VS

To do a print screen while running Windows in Boot Camp and using a Mac keyboard, use the keyboard combination: SHIFT + FN + F11

Also works with mac keyboards on windows pc

simonsimon

I found easiest way to key PrtScr to F13-F19 button with this little tool called SharpKeys (http://www.randyrants.com/sharpkeys/). It writes registry changes for you.

I use print screen quite a lot, so I do want to find it easily. And because there is no actual official use with F13-F19 button in Win, why do not map those to some useful funtions.

You can easily change CMD and ALT button to match regular windows keyboard layout if you wanted also. Many want to do this also if use mac keyboard on windows.

TIP: There is also great print screen program that can be useful called LightScreen (http://lightscreen.sourceforge.net/). It's free and there is also portable version available. I found this very useful, because it's let me to choose regions etc.

Sakari NiittymaaSakari Niittymaa

It would help to know what model of keyboard you had!

Edit: Model A1048 is this one:

On a Windows machine, the Clear key is often num-lock. Help may be Insert. There's no Menu-key equivalent, but you can fake it with Shift+F10.

Print Screen / Scroll Lock / Pause are available on some Mac keyboards, but on others are replaced by F13+ keys which are not equivalent. The on screen keyboard is the only way to access them.

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If you have Microsoft Office installed in your machine, then look for Microsoft OneNote. It has a Screen Clipping feature which can be invoked by Right Command + S. Once you press Right Command Key + S, you will see your screen go white transparent and select desired area to capture. Screen Clipper will then ask Copy to Clipboard or One-note. Choose Copy to Clipboard. Bingo! you can paste it anywhere as you want it, ur mail, document, powerpoint, etc.,

Bhuvanesh ManiBhuvanesh Mani

I have an old bluetooth Model A1016 that looks just like the above keyboard sans cord and F13 invokes printscreen thru my RDP session on the Windows7 PC I'm controlling via my old Macbook Air 11

I just found this forum cause I needed to do this and I just happened to try F13 after something I read here inspired me to do so. Attached is the cmd-shift-4 screen cap of the RDP session showing 'Greenshot' just after it was invoked thru the RDP session via F13 from the Mac's wireless keyboard (I emailed the Mac screen cap to the work PC).

Greenshot's defaults are set to use the PC's print-screen key...

I needed this because I do A LOT of screen caps for work and the 'snipping tool' sucks rocks... The PC belongs to my customer so I don't want to buy Snag-it for it... I was unaware of Greenshot until a few days ago

What Button Is Print Screen On Mac Keyboard

Print Screen Section From Greenshot showing me writing this on the PCinvoked from the Mac's F13 thru RDP

I downloaded Greenshot a couple days ago, so I've used it exactly 3 times so far and those 3 screen caps are uploaded here. After I installed Greenshot and went to do a screen cap I thought 'oh &%#@ ! Because I don't have a 'print-screen' key and that's what lead me here. It appears that Greenshot hot-key combo's are configurable but all those key combo's work for me because my F13 invokes the PC's 'Prt-scrn' key

This full screen cap invoked from the Mac thru RDP via the Mac Option/Alt key + F13 key

And finally a couple of Mac full screen caps (emailed to PC again) showing the Mac's whole screen with the Greenshot cross hairs waiting for me to select a screen section on the PC as I finished writing this. This would have been way cooler if I could have easily recorded it in video... :-P

Thanks to the peeps that were discussing the function keys!

Maybe this only works for me because my customer's laptop has a double 'insert/prt sc' right next to it's F12 directly above the it's delete key and that just happens to map to my F13... If Greenshot really is as configurable as that menu suggests then I would expect anyone to be able to map a hot-key combo that would suite them.

I hope Greenshot isn't keysrtoke logging spyware ;-)

Print screen on mac keyboard for windows in parallels

I hope this is helpful to someone...-Richard

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