YM conversation

[yhen31 0]

anyone knows how do u print screen YM conversation wen if your talking via web cam?

[Carlos and Jocel 2]

First thing you need is to make sure that you have your message archives on in your yahoo messenger for that person. Then you go to the dates and conversation, i.e. today... u look for that person you have chatted with, hit the dates of the message archives, then you can print it out or cut and paste. Goodluck! If your ym messages archive is off and everytime you logged off, ur message is not save. GOODLUCK...

[SWA2 1]

anyone knows how do u print screen YM conversation wen if your talking via web cam?

Click Messenger on the menu. From here click on Preferences. When the Preferences window opens up click on Archive from the list on the left. When this window opens up you have to make sure that the radio button "Yes, save all my messages" is selected or nothing will have been saved. Click on the box that says View Archive. All your saved messages will be displayed. You can select the messages you want to print by holding down the shift key and using the down arrow if you want to print an entire sequence or hold the Ctrl key down and click on individual messages to select more than one. Click on the print icon.

[Hannah+Vito 0]

just like to point out both yahoo messenger and skype are sneeky in that even with the message archive on they only keep the last 6 months and clear the rest, i found thst one out the hard way. don't know if this is news to anyone but i wish i had print screened as i went on.

[luckytxn 2,264]

My archives have been saved from over a year ago on YM. I did need to save to a folder on my puter first then print as I was unable to print the chats unless I did so.

[JeremyR 8]

If you want to prove that you're talking on webcam by actually getting a snapshot of the video in progress, there is a key on your keyboard marked 'Print Screen' (sometimes abbreviated). It's normally in a small row of three at the top-right, near the caps lock light.

Make sure that anything you don't want the consular office to see (!!! :P ) is off your screen completely and everything you do want them to see is visible (your other half's webcam, your own webcam, chat windows, etc) and then press the Print Screen button. Now go into your Start menu, find "Paint" and open it. When Paint opens, click the 'Edit' menu and then 'Paste', et voila! a perfect snapshot of your screen at the moment you hit the button. Save the picture, print it out (you might need to alter the printer setup to 'Fit to page'), whatever you like I did a few of these over time to go with my printed IM logfiles.

Anyone with half an ounce of computing knowledge can throw together an authentic looking faked chat history in a few minutes. I didn't want to hear "Wwll I could make one of these too, how do I know it's real?" from the consular officer on interview day. I figured that some actual screenshots would add weight to my other printouts

[pushbrk 12,892]

If you want to prove that you're talking on webcam by actually getting a snapshot of the video in progress, there is a key on your keyboard marked 'Print Screen' (sometimes abbreviated). It's normally in a small row of three at the top-right, near the caps lock light.

Make sure that anything you don't want the consular office to see (!!! :P ) is off your screen completely and everything you do want them to see is visible (your other half's webcam, your own webcam, chat windows, etc) and then press the Print Screen button. Now go into your Start menu, find "Paint" and open it. When Paint opens, click the 'Edit' menu and then 'Paste', et voila! a perfect snapshot of your screen at the moment you hit the button. Save the picture, print it out (you might need to alter the printer setup to 'Fit to page'), whatever you like I did a few of these over time to go with my printed IM logfiles.

Anyone with half an ounce of computing knowledge can throw together an authentic looking faked chat history in a few minutes. I didn't want to hear "Wwll I could make one of these too, how do I know it's real?" from the consular officer on interview day. I figured that some actual screenshots would add weight to my other printouts

For those who don't have or are unfamiliar with "Paint" the same procedure works in "Word". After pasting, you can click on the picture and drag it bigger, then type a caption underneath. Make sure date and time are visible. You can do this live to show the cams or from archive to show all but the cams. (for logs or text) I tried to do the print screen's when other family members were in one or more of the cam shots and otherwise just use the text in most case. Only a few examples are needed beyond the logs.

[Jasman0717 9]

I just did a copy and paste

[luckytxn 2,264]

I never thought about doing the screen cap and save it and even knew how. I did have a ####### load of YM chats that I printed and sent. I did tell her to black out any embarassing talk that she wanted as I found it all good. Not sure if she did it and if not then I may see some of the chat online soon.

[pushbrk 12,892]

I just did a copy and paste

I think the issue is that to copy and paste doesn't actually show evidence of date time and communication method. It's not always going to matter but when it does, it does.