Good info, I’ll check out the autosave.
I was not aware of it and never found the folder by accident either. But that should mean that it does not work on my machine, since I’ve often used PrtScrn to make screenshots - usually for making my ship icons.
But - not alt+PrtScrn, just PrtScrn works to the clipboard from inside Freelancer (I’m using XP too). Then Alt-Tab to get out of FL (sometimes it takes some time, or two-three goes, or the FL Screen just refuses to go down!) then start IrfanView and Ctrl-V to paste it into IrfanView. Very easy - usually!