TS2 + Win7 = No PrintScreen

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simsrocks:
I had the same problem with not being able to get printscreens of Sims, I'll try that.

EDIT: Doesn't work :/ I tried both, still getting desktop.

Liz:
novelty, thanks for the suggestions; unfortunately, I'd already tried them, having worn out whatever google-fu I possess before posting this. Alt+PrntScrn didn't do it, nor did Ctrl+Alt+PrntScrn, and the shortcut is always my own on the desktop. Win7 just insists I'm 'shrooming when I try to add the -w for "windowed mode" at the end of it. Since I don't use a laptop, I don't know if the Fn key solutions work or not.

The reason I've been trying to run it in windowed mode is precisely because of that phrase "active window" in the Alt+PrntScrn recommendation. I figured that since it wasn't capturing full-screen game shots (I tried in another game, just to rule out the possibility that it was something about my TS2 configuration that it didn't like), it might cooperate if the game were in an actual window. Unfortunately, that's also proving to be a challenge to accomplish. If it were capping other games, I'd be willing to entertain the wacky notion that it's something about my shortcut leading to the noCD instead of the "proper" .exe, but running from that infectious .exe wouldn't be an option anyway.

FRAPs is proving, so far, to be an acceptable work-around for the specific shots I'm taking right now, so thanks for the link, Moonshires. I'm still hunting, though, for that elusive way to cap and drop directly into Photoshop without having to use windowed mode (not that I can get that to work anyway), but I'm wondering if it's just not doable yet in Win7.

Solowren:
Using -w works fine for me in Windows 7. I also use FRAPS--I like that it just plonks the screenie into a folder without me needing to paste it into Paint and then save it to the same place, anyway.

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