Using alt + print screen in remote desktop session produces strange wrapped image

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I've got a remote desktop session from my XP machine to a Windows Server 2008 machine.

With focus on a small window within the remote desktop session, I press Alt + Print Screen and this is the result when I paste into Word, Outlook or Paint.NET:

Print screen showing weird wrapped image

Can anyone shed any light on how this might be fixed? Doing the same on a local window works fine. I know I can take the entire screen and crop it down but I'd prefer it just worked as it should.

Sir Crispalot

Posted 2011-07-07T09:51:04.067

Reputation: 273

I can't see a sample image in you text, maybe something went wrong here. – Michael K – 2011-07-07T09:59:31.117

you are talking about the left border ? – None – 2011-07-07T10:01:57.133

@Revolter - yes, exactly that. You can see the photo then :) – Sir Crispalot – 2011-07-07T10:08:07.157

I too cant see the image, maybe a link to a image host? – admintech – 2011-07-07T10:13:08.010

Hopefully you can all see it now. I have moved it to flickr. – Sir Crispalot – 2011-07-07T10:18:03.263

I have the same problem when I paste to Photoshop, but not when I paste to mspaint, so pasting the image in paint, then copying from it, and then pasting in Photoshop is a workaround, but not the best solution. Did you get any solutions on this? – None – 2013-02-13T05:39:14.643

@David - I never found a solution to this. In fact, I had the exact same issue again just today! I usually just grab the entire screen (without the Alt modifier) rather than the specific window, and then crop it myself. – Sir Crispalot – 2013-02-13T16:38:23.247

Answers

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If you're doing a lot of screen capturing you might benefit from using a dedicated screen capture software and maybe at the same time solve your problem. Screenshot Captor is free and very good but there are plenty of free ones to choose from. Could be worth a try.

CGA

Posted 2011-07-07T09:51:04.067

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Thanks for the tip; I'll give it a go. Still quite keen to understand why a basic piece of Windows functionality doesn't work though ... surely it's not just me?! – Sir Crispalot – 2011-07-08T18:18:50.690

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