She never told Dave about any of this.
She needed exactly Monitor 1. The whole monitor. As if Monitor 2 didn't exist. how to screen print only one monitor
She tried . That captured only the active window. Perfect in theory. But her active window was the browser on the left monitor. The screenshot came out as the browser alone—no taskbar, no timestamp, no context. The bug looked adrift, like a floating head. She never told Dave about any of this
Defeated, she Googled. Stack Overflow had a thread from 2017 with one answer: "Disable the second monitor in Display Settings, take screenshot, re-enable second monitor." "Disable," she muttered. "They want me to disable it." As if Monitor 2 didn't exist
She tried it. Settings → Display → Multiple displays → Disconnect this display. The right monitor went black. Slack died. Spotify stopped. She hit . Pasted. Perfect. One monitor. Clean. Beautiful.
Marla opened Snipping Tool. Mode: full-screen snip. It still grabbed both monitors, stitching them into one wide, ugly panorama. She tried Snip & Sketch (Windows 11). Same problem. She tried third-party tools: Greenshot, ShareX, Lightshot. They all defaulted to "All Screens" with a hidden checkbox labeled "Just the one you want, silly" that didn't actually exist.