Working on my next project I thought I would do the simplest trick in the book, prtscrn of the Virtual PC. No Luck, apparently if the Virtual PC is active it passes the prtscrn button directly to the virtual machine. So now to figure out ways around it. My first instinct would be to use Paint Shop Pro (currently owned by Corel, formally of Jasc), which had some great screen capture functions. I have converted over to Photoshop, and PSP is long gone on my laptop. I check around inside of photoshop, nothing even close. I even tried the On Screen Keyboard tool, nope same results.

I will point out that there is in fact a unique feature of Virtual PC, which is you can select the “screen” and copy it to the host clipboard. So for most people that is effective, but when I’m trying to illustrate features that are part of Virtual PC that doesn’t work so well.

So you can copy the full screen of the virtual machine, But now, what if you want a shot of the menus? or Option Panel? All you need to do is pause the Virtual Machine. So, if you really want to “Photoshop” the shot you can copy the screen capture and paste it into a paused full screen capture from the host to get your desired shot with no additional software.

Sources:
http://www.mcse.ms/archive/index.php/t-1453440.html
http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/virtualpc2004.asp
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=368