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Call me old school, but I'm quite happy with alt-printscrn for capturing the active window, and if I need to, I'll paste it into Paint (no, not Paint.NET, just plain ol' Paint) and crop it as I see fit. It's a very paintless process, harhar.
Marc
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For clipping I use greenshot[^], can't recommend it highly enough.
For capturing video of keystrokes there's CamStudio[^], I havent really used this much but reviews are great.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Definitely Greenshot for still capture--very configurable, nice UI to get only the image you want, and configurable with regards to saving, edit tools, etc.
Especially good with capturing screenshots of dynamic menus (web pages and such); just hit the "Print Screen" button and you have everything you need.
vuolsi così colà dove si puote
ciò che si vuole, e più non dimandare
--The answer to Minos and any question of "Why are we doing this way?"
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It is an awesome utility, I use it a lot!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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For screenshots I give my vote to Greenshot, been using it for a while now. I recall some problems with capturing the Chrome window but couldn't put my finger on the cause being due to a dual screen setup or capturing the browser itself.
CamStudio looks great will have to give it a shot  (shamelessly returning to topic)
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Think I had some problems a couple years ago when I first started using it but when I reloaded my system a while back I must have gotten an updated app or my there was something wrong in my setup either way haven't had any problems since and I reloaded back in the spring some time.
I love greenshot it just works.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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I use Instant Demo for all/any screen recording work of applications in use.
You can get both a free and a free version - I've used the free one for the best part of a decade.
It allows the painless insertion of captions and (more importantly) it allows you to wait for (or force!) the user to acknowledge a prompt before continuing. The cursor position is recorded as are mouse-clicks and keystrokes.
Output is either an AVI or a HTML file and an accompanying SWF. File-sizes are tiny.
I use it in preference to both Camtasia and Camstudio. Can't remember the other players in the field.
Demos of the product can be found here: Instant Demo Demonstrations[^]
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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Surprised nobody mentioned Snipping Tool yet. Been part of windows since Vista. Lives on my quick launch. Click, drag, think of a name.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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If you have a fairly powerful machine you can use Open Broadcaster Studio software. It is optimized for Live-Streaming but can also record locally. If you have NVENC-compatible Nvidia-GPU (7xx or newer) or an Intel i5/i7 3xxx or newer you can use their hardware encoding to record with virtually no performance hit. OBS if free as in free beer, open-source and can record the whole screen or only single windows (Vista SP2 or newer required.)
If you need help, drop into our IRC help channel, #obsproject @ quakenet (or use webchat from the OBS homepage).
Download: https://www.obsproject.com/[^]
How-To for local recording with best quality: https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-make-high-quality-local-recordings.16/[^]
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About 8 years ago Snagit offered Snagit 7 for free, with the hopes that you would install the software then upgrade to their newest version when they hounded you enough. Luckily you can turn the "check for updates" function off and continue using 7 in it's fully functional form. Message me if you want more info. Edit - Found the link[^]
modified 23-Feb-15 13:40pm.
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I'm quite a fan of Screenpresso [^], it's free for personal use. It also is quite a lot of goodies for documenting screenshots.
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. T.Jefferson
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I like ScreenRecorder. Does Windows or full screen with audio.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.03.utilityspotlight2.aspx?pr=blog
(Now if I could only figure out how to use that ^ thingy)
73
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Jing from TechSmith, same people who make Snag-It.
We use it a LOT. It has 2 capture buttons, one for video and one for just the screen.
You can save the file locally or upload it to their server and share the link.
The capture Video works great!
As an example: [^]
We have been using it for years. Love it!
Kirk Out!
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That's Wink.
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Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 SP2 (using the Screen Capture component).
All free.
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Quote: ACCESS LIMITS: Clients may maintain connections to the server for no more than 86,400 seconds per day. If you need additional time, you may contact IERS[^] to file a request for up to one additional second.
xkcd[^]
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I especially like the "up to" part 
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Hmm. That's an interesting tip.
Not sure what the point of contacting IERS could possibly be though. Last time I checked, 24 * 3600 = 86,400. 
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Wikipedia: Among its other functions, the IERS is responsible for announcing leap seconds.
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That'd do it, thanks.
Though with only 25 of them inserted since 1972 (and some seconds subtracted too) it sure is an interesting tool-tip.
Edit: seconds are not subtracted, even in the event that a solar day is 86399 seconds long.
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As an aside, the fact that there are 86400 seconds in a day is seared deep into my brain. At one point, I was working on a system with timestamps in seconds and so I was for ever doing mod 86400 to find out what time something happens. I could get a time, say 23452 and without calculating any further know what time it was; I just checked 6:30:52.
veni bibi saltavi
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Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Actually, that is correct. It would be compartment if you could get from one to the other internally but apartments are just discrete compartments. Sounded right when I thought it. 
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