How to Print Screen a right click?

I don't know of a way, using built-in Windows tools, to capture just the right-click menu.  You can press PrintScreen (PrtSc ) to capture the whole screen, then paste the image into a graphics editor and crop it to show just the menu.

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Steve's method should work. I used it to do this:


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If you use the built-in "Snipping Tool'' (find it in your Start menu), you can take a snip of a menu:

• After you open Snipping Tool, press Esc to cancel the current snip, and then open the menu that you want to capture.
• Press Ctrl+PrtScn.
• Click the arrow next to the New button, select Free-form Snip, Rectangular Snip, Window Snip, or Full-screen Snip from the list, and then select the area of your screen that you want to capture.

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the standard instructions from the help file to take a snip of a menu (that have been repeated in this thread) do not work. The moment you click the little arrow next to "new" in the snipping tool, the expanded menu that you are trying to snip collapses, So how am I supposed totake a snip of it?

lausipausi, you're not following the instructions correctly.  After you open the menu you want to capture, youdo not click anything (not even the "new" button).  Instead, you must press Ctrl-PrintScreen to active the capture of the menu.

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