I bought my Macbook shortly after Apple made the switch to the Intel processor a couple years back. The reason? Because they had just released Bootcamp, which gave Macs the ability to run Microsoft Windows natively. Bootcamp does a great job of mapping most of the hardware and keyboard so that the wi-fi and touchscreen work right out of the box, but there are a few minor compatibility issues to deal with.

One of the most annoying is definitely the lack of the Print Screen, Scroll Lock, and Pause buttons on the Macbook keyboard. After digging through the documentation, I finally found out how to take a screen capture on my Bootcamp Windows 7 machine. As you know, in Windows you can easily grab a screenshot of your PC simply be pressing the PrintScreen key. It then stores the screen grab of your computer into the clipboard so you can paste it into your favorite art program or word processor. If you don’t want the full screen, you can optionally do an Alt-PrintScreen key combination to take a screenshot of just the active window.

In my Macbook running Bootcamp version 3.1, I can now do the same two screenshot methods that have been available to me on my desktop. To perform a PrintScreen on the Macbook, use the Shift-Fn-F11 key sequence. To perform an Alt-PrintScreen on the Macbook to just take a snapshot of the active window, use the Shift-Fn-Option-F11 key sequence. Then the screenshot will be available in the clipboard for further use.

Again, the key sequence mapping:

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