I run Linux and I have a hotkey to take a screenie, with various options for delay, area of screen, etc. I have seen a screenshot utility for Windows XP in Paint or something, and I imagine other versions of Windows have a way to do it. My investment in this thread was responding to OP, who certainly seems to know how to upload an attachment but is trying to avoid that. I thought I explained my first post, here, pretty thoroughly, as I wrote it, in reply to OP. I remember the live embed problem from my tag usage, long ago.
said by rolfp:There was a (brief) time when I would use html img tags in posts to have more flexibility in composing with images. I was told that was not good, so I stopped.
However, I thought I also remember reading
said by rolfp:such html would automatically cause the image to be uploaded and converted to an attachment.
but, when I tried it in this thread, it didn't come out that way, ergo
said by rolfp:Looks like not so much.
I know how to upload an attachment. OP was trying to avoid downloading the image and uploading the attachment. That's pretty clear on Linux.