General Mac hardware discussions forum: 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).

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.

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 (1998) "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

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!

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.

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

SHIFT+CTRL+ALT AND THAN PRESS F14
paste anywhere you want, photoshop or word document... it works!

... at least for me, with an IBM Thinkcentre or a Dell Dimension 4600, both running 32 bit Win XP Pro with all the latest updates installed and using any one of the following Mac USB keyboards:

Model A1048 (ca 2003), all white "G4" with Eject, no Power key
Model M7803 (ca 2000), black keys on silver "monochrome G3", w/ Eject
M2452 (1998) "Grape G3" keyboard with Power/no Eject, and no F13 or F14 (or any function key greater than F12 for that matter)

What does work:

AppleKeys2 -
Go to http://www.dieselstation.com/software/ and download Applekeys 2 and use F13 to print screen. (from "remotepress" above)

On-Screen Keyboard -
Of course you have to have it as the foreground program, with the "psc" key in a visible area of the screen to get the mouse cursor to it, but, hey, it works and you don't have to download it.

What would [almost certainly] work with the right settings:
editing the keymap in remap.reg (from Claudiu Nemes)

What doesn't work... at least with any of my configurations:
No combination of F12-F15, 3 nor 4 with any combination of "meta" keys such as
"Shift"
"Control"
"Option" - the "Alt" key
"Command" - the "Apple" or "4-leaf clover" key that maps to the "Windows" (?) key of a PC keyboard.
(SHIFT-CNTRL-ALT before or concurrent with either F13 or F14 does not work for me)

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Would people posting in the future please include which model [number] Apple USB keyboard and which version of Windows they are using?
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And in the meanwhile, I'll continue using AppleKeys2!

This is a bit of a pain but it worked....

Go to start, in the search bar type "On-Screen Keyboard". Run the program and it has a PrtScn key. Click on it with your mouse and it works.