Capturing a portion of the the screen when using XP, IE8 is it possible?

1) Viewing the screen in IE8, hit the “Print Scrn” key
2) Open Paint
3) Paste (Ctrl-V)
4) Choose the Select tool
5) Outline the portion of the picture you want to keep
6) Right-click and choose Crop
7) Save as a file
8) or Select All (Ctrl-A) and Copy and Paste into your email

The Snipping Tool may be quicker but I learned this before the Snipping Tool existed, so I never used it.

Thanks @jaytkay

You should get FastStone capture. I use that all the time. You’ll love it. Just box out the portion you want and you’ve got it. I think there’s a free version but I paid the $20 for a lifetime license.

@jazzticity thank you.

@jaytkay
-For step 5 I used the dotted square to outline the portion I want to keep. Step 6 says to crop, but didn’t I do cropping in step 5?

-When I right click I always get the menu that includes cut, copy, paste… (I tried right clicking on an empty space inside and outside the image I outlined) I have never seen “crop”. What do you right click on?

-Re. step 8, it says “or”. So you mean instead of taking a screenshot, period? I need to do screenshots because sometimes the result of copy and paste does not tell the truth. Some things are not there sometimes things are in different places than in the original etc.

Alt+Print Screen captures only the foreground window to the clipboard. An application called IrfanView can be used to directly capture a rectangular area dragged out with the mouse, although it’s usually easier to copy the whole window, then crop it. http://www.irfanview.com. It’s more versatile than Windows Paint.

For step 5 I used the dotted square to outline the portion I want to keep. Step 6 says to crop, but didn’t I do cropping in step 5?
Step 5 outline the area, step 6 crop down to that area

When I right click I always get the menu that includes cut, copy, paste… (I tried right clicking on an empty space inside and outside the image I outlined) I have never seen “crop”.
Crop is also under the Image menu

Re. step 8, it says “or”. So you mean instead of taking a screenshot, period?
Either 7) save your cropped screen shot image as a file or 8) copy from Paint and paste into another program

@IchtheosaurusRex thank you.
@jaytkay thank you. I just saw the “image” menu.

Is crop Ctrl R, or W or I or E, or other?

I get this under the ‘Image’ menu in Paint

Flip/Rotate
Strech/Skew
Invert Colors
Attibutes
Clear Image
Draw Opaque