How to download the screen shot?
Monday, January 26, 2004 by dingdim | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
i should click where?
Sugaree
Reply #2 Monday, January 26, 2004 11:06 AM
Reply #2 Monday, January 26, 2004 11:06 AM
Why would you want to download a screen shot?
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anyways, just right click on the image and "save as"
.... anyways, just right click on the image and "save as"
Plop2
Reply #5 Monday, January 26, 2004 6:27 PM
Reply #5 Monday, January 26, 2004 6:27 PM
I download screenshots. Reason: I have a lot of skins that I have downloaded, thx to the great artists here. The problem is I don't want to install every skin that I have downloaded and keep it installed. But this creates another problem, when I get in the mood to change my desktop I can't remember what they look like. To alleviate this problem I download the screens and put them in a skins folder so I can view them as thumbnails, etc. If you use a program such as ACDSee you can add all kinds of info, though this is a bit drastic. It really helps me to quickly look at the skins that I have and quickly choose from those.
Jafo
Reply #6 Monday, January 26, 2004 6:59 PM
Reply #6 Monday, January 26, 2004 6:59 PM
DLing screenshots is useful for keeping track of themes, such as those in DX or Litestep, etc....
Plop2
Reply #7 Monday, January 26, 2004 7:40 PM
Reply #7 Monday, January 26, 2004 7:40 PM
With all of that said...
Click on the screen shot to enlarge/expand it, then right click on the screen and select "Save Picture As" (WinXP). Browse to where you want to save the screen then click "Save". I think all of the screens on this site are in jpeg format so the should be small.
WinXP has two cool ways to view these once you have d'lded them. You can view them as a Filmstrip or as Thumbnails.
Click on the screen shot to enlarge/expand it, then right click on the screen and select "Save Picture As" (WinXP). Browse to where you want to save the screen then click "Save". I think all of the screens on this site are in jpeg format so the should be small.
WinXP has two cool ways to view these once you have d'lded them. You can view them as a Filmstrip or as Thumbnails.
Peff
Reply #9 Monday, January 26, 2004 7:58 PM
Keep in mind that XP uses 'stream' files on your HD to store additional information (the actual thumbnails) when thumbnails and such are used. This can cause some confusion as the streams are not deleted when a file is, and you never really get the HD space back. There are utilites to view and delete, these stream files, but the 'normal' user never sees them and doesn't realize that a chunk of his/her HD is gone. This can have a huge effect on free drive space if you view many images as thumbnails. I've seen 20Gig drives with 0 visible files on them report that only 100MB is available.
Reply #9 Monday, January 26, 2004 7:58 PM
| WinXP has two cool ways to view these once you have d'lded them. You can view them as a Filmstrip or as Thumbnails |
Keep in mind that XP uses 'stream' files on your HD to store additional information (the actual thumbnails) when thumbnails and such are used. This can cause some confusion as the streams are not deleted when a file is, and you never really get the HD space back. There are utilites to view and delete, these stream files, but the 'normal' user never sees them and doesn't realize that a chunk of his/her HD is gone. This can have a huge effect on free drive space if you view many images as thumbnails. I've seen 20Gig drives with 0 visible files on them report that only 100MB is available.
Essencay
Reply #10 Monday, January 26, 2004 8:05 PM
I assume your talking about thumbs.db files, just changing the hidden file settings allows you to see and delete them
Reply #10 Monday, January 26, 2004 8:05 PM
| There are utilites to view and delete, these stream files |
I assume your talking about thumbs.db files, just changing the hidden file settings allows you to see and delete them
Peff
Reply #11 Monday, January 26, 2004 8:16 PM
Reply #11 Monday, January 26, 2004 8:16 PM
Nope...not thumbs.db. Streams are not actually files (they are called alternate data streams). This will explain it better that I can.
http://patriot.net/~carvdawg/docs/dark_side.html
http://patriot.net/~carvdawg/docs/dark_side.html
Plop2
Reply #13 Monday, January 26, 2004 8:31 PM
Reply #13 Monday, January 26, 2004 8:31 PM
I have never seen this happen, are you sure it isn't something you are doing? I have used thumbs extensively for a long time at the office and at home and have never had those results. Especially when you are talking about roughly 20 Gigs of wasted space.
Peff
Reply #14 Monday, January 26, 2004 8:38 PM
Reply #14 Monday, January 26, 2004 8:38 PM
Plop2,
No, it's not something I'm doing. Read the article in the link.
In the case of the 20Gig, I'm talking about hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of thumbnails.
No, it's not something I'm doing.
Read the article in the link.In the case of the 20Gig, I'm talking about hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of thumbnails.
Plop2
Reply #15 Monday, January 26, 2004 9:21 PM
Reply #15 Monday, January 26, 2004 9:21 PM
If you have millions of pics on your hard drive you're gonna need more than a 20 Gig 
Anyway the thumbs feature has never caused me any probs and I have never had nowhere near this much wasted space. Just my experience though. Are you sure you are not visiting one of "those" picture sites to get that many.
Anyway the thumbs feature has never caused me any probs and I have never had nowhere near this much wasted space. Just my experience though. Are you sure you are not visiting one of "those" picture sites to get that many.
Plop2
Reply #16 Monday, January 26, 2004 9:34 PM
Reply #16 Monday, January 26, 2004 9:34 PM
Hey China Cat I believe that you said the same thing as the person in post one, why did you post the same thing again. I thought it was the right thing to do... 
Sugaree
Reply #18 Monday, January 26, 2004 11:17 PM
Reply #18 Monday, January 26, 2004 11:17 PM
Hey Plop2... When I was typing my answer so was Chef Garry, He was just quicker. 
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Reply #1 Monday, January 26, 2004 11:05 AM
That said, if you really want to do this, right-click the shot and save to file or set as background.