Print Screen Error With Dual Monitors

I had same problem. Reduce harware accel & reduce to 16 bit color. I have an ATI Fire GL V5200 with dual outputs.

I know you don't want to bother with 3rd party tools, but you really should look into Purrint. It can copy the screenshots to the clipboard, save them to a file (any format) or do both, automatically, every time you press Print Screen. Also has multi-monitor support, which might help your case here. Plus it's a tiny application (136k installer, uses 344k RAM).

"It certainly sounds like that you haven't got enough memory available to hold the full image on the clipboard. The fact that it fails for a maximised window as well as the full screen supports this.

A couple of questions:

What screen resolution are you running at?
How much memory have you got installed? Though this shouldn't be an issue with virtual memory.
What's the size of your paging file? Both it's current size and maximum size (if not set to ""System managed size"").

If you lower your screen resolution can you get it to work?

I'm running with 2GB of RAM and two monitors at 1600 x 1200 x 32bpp and I can print the whole desktop."

Easy....Just change the image attributes in paint to match your total screen size. If one monitor is 1680x1050 and you have a background on there that stretches along both screens, the background would have to be 3360x1050....so if you print screen, you need to go to paint, change the attributes to 3360x1050 and then hit paste. ....next question. ;)

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Reboot fixed it. Sad, but just relaying the truth."