take a screenshot of an application window

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Can one take a partial screen shot in Windows 7?

I Googled around, but I couldn't find a good short cut application that would allow me to take the screenshot of an application window( and not the whole desktop). Ideally, I want to focus on the application and then use Ctrl + P or PrintScreen to take the picture, or some other shortcut.
Does such an application exist?

user217631

Posted 2012-04-03T04:55:05.767

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Question was closed 2012-04-03T05:18:45.893

How to do this depends on your OS. – Lèse majesté – 2012-04-03T05:02:52.977

2@ekaj Control-P is normally print, not paste. Control-V is paste. – Paul – 2012-04-03T05:18:41.053

@Paul Thanks for correcting me, I am sorry I got those mixed up. – cutrightjm – 2012-04-03T05:19:28.607

@Sathya Yes, it is a duplicate, but wouldn't it be easier for newer users to find questions with a title such as this, so asking the question again is less likely to occur? When I saw 'partial screenshot', I automatically assumed it was always of a certain portion of the screen.. but that's just me – cutrightjm – 2012-04-03T05:25:32.357

2@ekaj close as duplicate doesn't (always) imply deletion, if another user searches for the same, they'll run into this this & then move to the dupe question which handles application window screenshot as well as partial screenshot. – Sathyajith Bhat – 2012-04-03T06:10:41.037

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To take a picture of the active window only, hold down the Alt key while before pressing the PrtScr key. This doesn't require additional software, and you can Ctrl + V (paste) it to all you want.

cutrightjm

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