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Having problems with screen shots

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I have managed to do it a couple of times, so I think I am leaving out a simple step. I hit print screen, then I have to put the file someplace (this thing won't let me take the file right into paint to resize it, for some reason). The places it lets me put the screen shot are in Rich Text Files or Word Pad Documents, which always end up being too big to post (and I can't seem to access them in PAINT)
 
OK - I fixed the opening in paint part (yup - I'm a dummy)...but the file itself is too big to upload here; and when I shrink it, it becomes unreadable. I tried loading it into photobucket, but it was automatically resized & too small
 
Is the file to big in dimension, or in bytes?

Either way, you can try downloading PixResizer which is freeware. It will let you adjust the dimensions of a picture file after you've created it in Paint, and convert to another file format if need be. So if the file is a .bmp, you may want to convert it to a lower quality .jpg which will likely be smaller.

That should solve your problem.
 
it is too big in bytes (by about 3X), and you are correct, it is a bmp file
 
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