a quick tip if you view a CR online

[hollandguy]

I'm new here. I've done the optoutpreescreen.com and then I went through TrueCredit.com to view my report. I find myself wanting to login 2 or 3 times a day to get information but I read on one of these posts that True Credit may hassle you if you log in everyday. (Trish on Credit Monitoring Services)

What I did is I took a screenshot of my report by holding the control key (CTRL on the lower left of keyboard) and hit the Print Screen (Print Screen and Sys Req key on upper right of keyboard) key. This will copy it to the clipboard. Then I pasted that into my photo editor. I had to take about 14 screenshots to get the entire report, but I did it! note: CTRL + Print Screen will give you the entire screen and ALT + Print Screen gives you just the active window.

You wont have to but I stitched them all together to make 1 image that is 900X 7700 and shows the entire report.

You can also highlight the text and copy it to clipboard (CTRL + C) and paste it into notepad (CTRL + V). This wont give you all the formatting and icons but at least you will have addresses and acct numbers.

Works great if you go to annualcreditreport.com to get your yearly free report because you can't log back in.

[Trish]

Wow that's a cool trick.
It sounds like a better way of saving it than how I did. There are times during the dispute process you will definitely want to save your daily report.....in case you need it for proof.

As far as TC goes......it wasn't logging in several times a day that "bothered" them.. It was refreshing or pulling my report every day... They will only let you pull it exactly every 24 hours.....and most times I would pull my report exactly every 24 hours. (like down to the minute....lol). I will admit, I was going for bumpage.....and it worked. I got like 20 something inquiries bumped off.

So you can log in as much as you want (and you should).......and really you should be able to pull your report EVERY day. That IS the service they offer......that's why I got so pissy with them.

Another nice thing about TC is you can go through their site and get a report directly from TU and EX (it forwards you to their websites on the dispute page).....with a report number. That way I always had a valid PAID report number to dispute with via mail.
I did not realize this until after having their service a while.......so if you haven't found that gem, be sure and look for it. :D

[scorch]

I once told a couple of my female co workers that I check my credit reports at least once every two months and they started laughing at me!

[Trish]

Well, we (here) are all a bit anal about our CRs....lol
Tell them your scores are so good that you're a high risk for credit card fraud. lol :p