Umair Hakeem Zuberi wrote: its UR problem that u cant understand simple english Mmm... What you are writing is simple english? Damm, I must have been away when the english teacher explained the words "coz", "u", "ur" and other from previous posts. By the way... Umair Hakeem Zuberi wrote: i push the print screen key and the screen captures. then i run the executable file of the program i made. the program will be in such a fashion that it will get the captured screen from the memory and saves it on the hard drive. like u do from mspaint. plz help me Where is it said that you are using plain C? Greetings. -------- M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you “The First Rule of Program Optimization: Don't do it. The Second Rule of Program Optimization (for experts only!): Don't do it yet.” - Michael A. Jackson