How do i print screen on a PC with a Mac Keyboard??

This does not answer the original question. The questioner has a PC. And has a Mac keyboard plugged into it.

The Mac keyboard does not have a Print Screen key. It has an Alt key and an F13 key, which would be the equivalent of how you'd do this with a PC keyboard.

But that doesn't seem to work (for me either).

its placement.

I think I would shell out for a cheap USB keyboard for the PC.

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>This does not answer the original question. The questioner has a PC >And has a Mac keyboard plugged into it.

>The Mac keyboard does not have a Print Screen key. It has an Alt key >and an F13 key, which would be the equivalent of how you'd do this >with a PC keyboard.

>But that doesn't seem to work (for me either).


I am using a MAC keyboard plugged into a PC with Vista installed. This should also work with XP. Press the following key combination;

MAC Key(funny looking key that looks a jack)
Control Key
Shift Key
F13 Key

This should capture the entire screen

Hope This Helps

I have fund a solution to this issue:
1/ I have downloaded Key Tweak(remapping soft)from this link: http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/
2/ I did remap the F13 Key (100)from my Mac keyboard into Print Screen
and saved it such as.

I have a PC who's running windows vista 64 bit with the mac keyboard and the print screen function (F13) is actually working.

Hoping that help somebody...

Cheers.

I have a Mac Pro and I run Windows and Mac with Parallels. I am new to the "Mac World" and still not very happy about it.
My keyboard gets to F12 (no F13, no F14...).
I use Windows XP, and I really need to be able to use prntscrn on the windows side.
I tried Command(apple) + shift + 3: it takes the snapshot, but it does not place it anywhere.
I tried to find other ways... but I am completely lost.

Please Help!

I appreciate very much any response.

Thanks mrmacfixit. I tried that and it does solve the problem on the Mac desktop... but my issue is on windows.

I work a lot on Excel on windows, and I need to be able to copy images from online and just paste them on the Excel page I have open. It was very easy when I was using PC - now it is complicated to do.

or,
get a cheap Windows keyboard


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[... in case anyone else stumbles across this old Forum thread after my posting...]

OK... I admit that I'm obsessive, but I have a stack of cheap/free Mac USB keyboards around and only one PC USB keyboard, and I work with both PC and Mac on a KVM switch.
Setting the record straight, USB was a Microsoft standard, and the first computers to have it were PCs, but it didn't become universally accepted in the PC world until, ironically, Apple switched over from ADB. (Yes, I have a bigger stack of PS2 keyboards than Mac USB, and no I have never gotten any of them to work with a PS2 to USB adapter)

First off, there are different Mac USB keyboards. I have the following which work and are recognized by a PC... at least by WinXP (sp3):
Model A1048 (ca 2003), all white "G4" with Eject, no Power key
Model M7803 (ca 2000), black keys on silver "monochrome G3", Eject

I also have an M2452 (199 "Grape G3" keyboard with Power/no Eject, but the PC doesn't recognize it any more than it does a PS2 keyboard with a USB adapter.

I've tried all of the key combinations in this weblog with both the A1048 and M7803 and NONE of them work. I even took the M7803 (which is the most PC-like) and tried 3,4, F12, F13, F14 and F15, each alone and then with each and every combination of Control, Alt, Mac-Command (4-Leaf-Clover) and Shift - yes, all 16 combinations - and none of them worked. Then for good measure I tried the Help, Home, Page Up/Down, End, Delete, all three Sound Volume and Eject, both alone and with Control and MacCommand+Control and none of those worked either.

Though Claudiu's remap.reg fix did not work either (I did the above test with the A1048 before and after, and the M7803 after his reg update), it's probably just a matter of some tweaking for different keyboard models and keymaps to get it to work.

In the meanwhile, I'm using "On-Screen Keyboard" until I (or someone else like Claudiu) can go and lookup the code/keymap for specific Mac keyboards and how they map to the PC keyboards.

Thanks and Mahalos!
Johnathan
03-06-2009

Several of these posts talk about using F13-F15 keys on a Mac. I have a fairly new MacBook Pro (< 18 months old) and a MacBook Duo -- NEITHER of which has a keyboard that goes past F12. Am I the only person on the planet that has this version of Mac laptops or what??! This is crazy -- and not at all helpful to me in solving the problem.

When using your intel based MacBook Pro while running either Windows 7 or Vista, you can use the Windows Snipping Tool. It is found in the Accessories folder. If you don't see it there in Vista, you may need to turn on the Tablet PC options. Why this useful screen capture program is tied into Tablet PC options is unclear to me.

The Snipping Tool does screen capture of selected areas, the active window, and the entire desktop.

Hope this helps!

Best Answer. Easy. Clean. Works. Thank you !

there's also something for the MAC side of things in Utilities, called Grabber. Similar to SnipIt/snipping tools on the PC side. Thanks for all your suggestions.

Thanks, "cfagan"! Once AppleKeys is installed and run, F13 acts like the PrintScreen key. Just what I was looking for, with no extra screen clutter or need for the mouse. With On-Screen Keyboard, I have to keep the top row of keys with "PrtScn" visible, then have to click it with the mouse and include it in the screen shot.

PS SHIFT-CNTRL-ALT, before or concurrent with F14 (or F13 or F15) does nothing on my M7803 "Pro" keyboard.

Apple2 Keys worked for me, I have been trying to figure this out for months, thanks SO much!

APPLEKEYS 2 WORKS AWESOME!!!! THANK YOU SOOOOOOOO MUCH!

just a little fyi... applekeys doesn't seem to want to play with Excel. I tried to screen shot an excel sheet and it just doesn't pick up anything. Thought I forgot the key stroke. Drove me crazy for about 5 minutes but then I tried just capturing the desktop and that worked find. Tried capturing half a dozen other things and it worked just fine but it won't capture anything when excel is in the picture.

Now THAT's the answer that I was looking for...paste it into paint was the trick that I was missing!!!!!! It's been so long since I'd used a PC that I'd forgotten to use paint. Fn+shift+F11, as recommended by others and on other forums, was not sufficient, as the printscreen itself wasn't "going" anywhere, you need to paste it into paint of course! THANK YOU! (I didn't feel like downloading yet another piece of software, or trying to scrounge up a different keyboard to use for 2 seconds with my MacBook Pro, and the onscreen keyboard wouldn't work with the software that I'm using which I needed a printscreen of either.)