Display the icons for all the features you might use.Minimize, DO NOT exit when you close the icon ribbon.Auto hide if you put the icon ribbon at the top of the screen.Enlarge the buttons so they're easier to see.Capture has got to be the smallest Windows program I've seen, it takes no resources to have it running all the time and if it is it's available to use with a keystroke. You can get to settings with the F12 shortcut key, or by clicking on the right-most icon and choosing Settings: Quick StartĪfter installing FS Capture I almost always make these setting changes, to make Capture behave the way I like. It can also optionally highlight the mouse location and even capture the click of the mouse. With the video it can also capture what you hear on the speakers and/or what you say into a microphone.

I also use this feature to capture something I'm doing on the screen that I want to share with others.

This means you can capture streaming video you can't save any other way. This draw board is the same tool found in FastStone MaxView and Image Viewer.įor over 10 years FS Capture has also been able to capture video appearing on the screen. However, a great feature is you can also save to the draw board where you can do a quick annotation before sending to a friend, or whatever. I normally just automatically save it to a file (whose name I specify with a template) in a folder I specify. It gives you a dozen options of what to do with it after capture. If captures windows, objects, rectangular or freehand areas, and will even scroll a webpage and capture it as it scrolls. Like dozens of other screen capture programs, it originally just captured the pixels on the screen but what made it so useful is it did it totally automatically at the touch of a key.

It only costs #20 for a lifetime license and I highly recommend it. FastStone Capture is screen capture program that I've been using for 15 years.

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