Screen capture recomendations please

[jolancer]

Hi i know theres probably tones of programs out there for the task, but im not familiar with any so i could use any user recomendations or experience for my task.

I dont need one for video games.. what im looking for is just a way to capture my desktop and everything that apears from programs being used on it automatically perhaps every 5secs or adjustable.

OS win7. core i3. 4GB.

i will google on my own, but any recomendations are appreciated as it will help me narrow down reliable apps. Thx

 

[Bubbaleone]

See this from Gizmo's freeware reviews: Best Free Screen Capture Utility

From that same review is Photoscape. It's a very good freeware image editor and screen capture utility.

If money isn't a concern then (IMHO) the best screen capture software available is TechSmith Snagit. A single user license will cost you fifty bucks.

 

[slicksilver]

If money isn't a concern then (IMHO) the best screen capture software available is TechSmith Snagit. A single user license will cost you fifty bucks.

This

 

[Phynaz]

If money isn't a concern then (IMHO) the best screen capture software available is TechSmith Snagit. A single user license will cost you fifty bucks.

Thirded.

 

[boochi]

HyperSnap
http://www.hyperionics.com/

 

[mirandu04]

I just use Photoshop or the good old pain; on the other hand i don't really need important screens from games

 

[NetGuySC]

I frequently need a screen capture to display to IT a computer issue.
I just press the "Print Scrn" button, open the windows paint program, paste in paint and the save as a jpeg. Screen captured

oops.. didn't see the capture every 5 sec automatically, my recommendation is of no help for you but I'll leave it so that it may help someone else.

 

[corkyg]

I have used MWSnap for years - free and very powerful. Not sure, however, about your time scheduled auto snaps. That is a bit specialized.

 

[mike2fix]

How about the "Snipping Tool" that is included in Windows 7.

 

[lxskllr]

Seems like you could do that with a script. Set the time increment, and let it go. Store the shots in a specified folder.

 

[Herkulese]

If money isn't a concern then (IMHO) the best screen capture software available is TechSmith Snagit. A single user license will cost you fifty bucks.

This is the simplest, and you can do easy image editing as well.

 

[ringtail]

To copy an entire web page including the portions not immediately shown on your display(the scroll-down part) I use the free "pixlr grabber" add on to Firefox. WOrks great!

To copy just what's visible on the screen I use Snipping Tool built into Windows 7.

Had Snagit many years ago, and it worked great, but no better than the free ones out now. Back then there weren't other free ones like today.

 

[ringtail]

To copy an entire web page including the portions not immediately shown on your display (the scroll-down part) I use the free "pixlr grabber" add on to Firefox. Works great!

To copy just what's visible on the screen I use Snipping Tool built into Windows 7.

Had Snagit many years ago, and it worked great, but no better than the free ones out now. Back then there weren't other free ones like today.

 

[sm625]

I also use mwsnap. You can set up a hotkey combo, such as CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-S to capture the entire screen. That's in the hotkey's menu. Then you could turn off the sound for mwsnap. Then you could do a very simple autohotkey script which simply presses the CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-S combo every 5 seconds. In theory that should work.

The ahk script would be:

Loop
{
    Sleep, 5000 ; 5 seconds
    Send ^!+S   ; send CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+S
}

I must point out that this sounds an awful lot like somebuddy trying to spy on somebuddy.

Keep in mind that this will consume anywhere from 30MB to 100MB per hour

 

[RedString]

I must point out that this sounds an awful lot like somebuddy trying to spy on somebuddy.

That's what i thought.