How can I best do a screen print in Windows 7 without loading any additional software?

Just hit print screen on the keyboard then open paint and paste the image. Save in whatever format you want.

Also Alt and Print Screen copies just the foremost window.

The “Print Screen” button is the second from the right at the very top of most keyboards. Windows 7 comes with the MicroSoft “Paint” photo editing program. Press Print Screen, then click open the Paint program, then at from the task bar at the top of the Paint page, click “Paste” then “Save” and save the image into your work folder.

You find the Paint program by clicking the “Start” button in the lower left-hand corner of the Desktop. Then move your mouse cursor over “All Programs”, then “Accessories”, then click Paint.

If you must use Paint a lot, right click it, then click “Add to Desktop” and/or “Add to Taskbar”. This way you can click open Paint directly from your Desktop, or your Taskbar without having to go through Start.

You can also use the “Snipping Tool” to take screenshots of specific sections of the screen.

Thank you all for your replies. The Print Screen method seems faster to use than the Snipping Tool, though the latter tool is useful if I only want part of a page. I discovered than I print directly from the Paint program without saving the file, which is a big convenience.

Now if only there were a way to print the entire web page when there’s a scroll bar and not just what’s showing on the screen! One can only wish. (Yes, I know there are utilities out there that let you do this, but as I said, we’re not allowed to install anything extraneous.)

If your browser lets you save or print to PDF, you might get a good print of a web site, aimed at 8.5×11 even though it’s too wide on screen.

If you choose Print, see if PDF is one of the printer options. It’s included by default with Windows 10, maybe there is such an option installed on your Windows 7 machines.

Paint also has a cropping tool. It’s the second square from the left in the task bar above “Select”. You simply click that, then go down to that portion of your image that you want to save, drag your cursor to frame it, then click “crop”.

Also—and I may have been doing this the hard way—when I want the whole scroll of a page, I take a series of Screenshots, then crop them and paste them together. Or you can take a series of Screenshots and number them in series in your work folder to make a consecutive slideshow or page printouts.

I found that both IE and Chrome have print functions, but judging by the Print Preview, they rearrange the page contents funny—not like they appeared on screen.