Classic British Flight Sim

Hi Guy's..

Can any of you Win7 users tell me if the OS comes with something like Paint? One of the chaps at Brooklands wants to take screenshots of the Vanguard website and print them off but can't find how to do it. I've told him the screenshot will go to the clipboard (I presume Win7 still has one) and I've described what to do in WinXP to take the screenshot and save it but I've no idea if Win7 has an equivalent

ATB
DaveB

yeah it has paint... bit better than XP version too!

Just checked my netbook and as Chris says it has an improved version

One thing though, it doesn't show on my programme list but at the bottom is a box to search for programmes and simply typing paint into the box brought it up.

Thanks for that fellas.. much appreciated

ATB
DaveB

Yup - 'Start' - 'All Programs', click on the 'Accessories' folder and there it is!

Myles

That'll do it. Cheers Myles

ATB
DaveB

Just noticed that after opening it, it then appears in the icons of the left side

Out of interest is there any reason he's not just printing out the web page from internet explorer/firefox/chrome/opera?

Hi Skip

I dunno is the honest answer. He's my team leader at Brooklands and isn't the most computer literate bod I've ever come across. On this occassion, I guess I missed the obvious too.. printing webpages is something I never do (I don't have a printer on this pc)

ATB
DaveB

DaveB wrote:Hi Guy's..

Can any of you Win7 users tell me if the OS comes with something like Paint? One of the chaps at Brooklands wants to take screenshots of the Vanguard website and print them off but can't find how to do it. I've told him the screenshot will go to the clipboard (I presume Win7 still has one) and I've described what to do in WinXP to take the screenshot and save it but I've no idea if Win7 has an equivalent

ATB
DaveB

Dave, you might point him to this utility called Picpick which will do a screenshot and instantly display it in an image editor, so you can do all your cropping, resizing and sharpening there and then. If you just close the editor without doing anything, the screenshot remains saved just as it was captured. The great thing is you don't have go searching for the screenie, then open it in a separate editor. It opens in the editor as soon as you save it. You can specify the folder it saves to, and it names the shots in numerical order ( eg image 001, image 002 etc )

http://www.picpick.org/features

For the flight simmer its ideal because being able to edit the image instantly gives you something to do on those autopiloted long-haul trips.