Screen Capture Programs and Your Clipboard

Ever wanted to capture or snap screen images with something a little easier to use than the built in program of Windows clipboard. Look no further than these programs that offer basic to advanced features at no cost or trial versions that you can use to see if your interested in purchasing the full versions.

Screen capture programs all work the same, basically. The program takes the image that is currently on the screen of the computer and stores that image in a location of your computers hard drive. In Windows there is a built in capture or copy program for you to use but it is very basic, and I mean very basic. It is a part of Windows that incorporates the copy feature of many right click parts of programs.

The clipboard program is usually found in your Windows directory, like this, C:Windows/System32/clipbrd.exe. This program can capture the image or text of what is on the current window or open program and hold it in a spot on your hard drive. Where this saves the copy can sometime be a mystery but you can find it, or even specify where it saves this captured image or text. When you hit the prt scr or print screen key it will save the image on your hard drive. You can then access this image or text by opening the clipboard by finding the executable program or .exe like this. Go to explorer or double click My Computer then go to windows then system 32 and find clipbrd or clipbrd.exe. Double click this and the program will open with the image you captured. You can then save or edit this image with some basic tools on the clipboard program.

The clipboard program has some very basic features and is not a very good program other than a very basic screen capture or copy tool. This is also the part of your computer that copies text or documents, files and programs when you use the copy, paste or cut feature of your computer. You can save images or text and specify where you save it, my documents or you can create a folder for ease of finding them later.