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Taksi v0.7.7.2

webfork on 25 Jun 2017
  • 320KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 3 Jun 2013
  • Suggested by Fluffy

Taksi is a video/screen capture tool for 3D applications. It can capture from almost any DirectX, OpenGL or GDI window and capture video of the contents. Although videos can be compressed, this is not recommended as it further slows down an already taxing process

Note: This program does not appear to be in development any longer so some features are not implemented (such as recording audio).

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: Application folder
License: BSD
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and extract to a folder of your choice using the "MSI Administrative Installation" method
  2. Delete the .MSI file (name varies depending on version eg. taksi-0.7.6.msi) and TaksiLogo.jpg
  3. Launch Taksi.exe
Recommendations: Turn video compression off for the best performance. Click "Config" and then, in the "Format" tab, select the "Video Codecs" button. Choose "Full Frames (Uncompressed)" from the drop-down dialog, and then "OK". The program will warn you that this uses up a very large amount of disk space: click "OK" and then "Save").
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Emka on 2011-12-26 19:41

v7.7.9-dev from 2010 is the latest, development seems stalled

Midas on 2014-04-28 14:02

Latest stable version at the site (http://taksi.sourceforge.net/) is v0.7.6 ...

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AviScreen Portable v1.3 Revision 2

lwc on 20 Jul 2019
  • 654KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 4 Dec 2012
  • Suggested by MISIIM

An application for capturing screen activity in the form of AVI video or JPG/GIF/BMP images. Besides the usual options defining the capture area, AviScreen has a unique feature called "follow the cursor". Using this mode you can produce a video or image of relatively small dimensions while covering all mouse activity over the whole screen area. Does not record audio. AviScreen Portable is a portable wrapper for AviScreen.

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Runs on:Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. Makes minor changes to registry; requires manual entry of save path.
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch AviScreenPortable.exe.

Disable checking for new version (as the site is offline) by unchecking "Help" - "Automatic update checK"
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behappy on 2010-05-23 11:06

Correction of my entry at 2010-05-23 11:01
The version at Softpedia IS portable BUT it sets reg keys.

vbb on 2010-09-19 19:49

The download link is misleading, but many mirrors are on the web. I downloaded it from softpedia:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/Multimedia/Video/Windows-Portable-Applications-AviScreen-Portable.shtml

webfork on 2010-09-20 03:50

vbb: link updated, thanks.

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FastStone Capture v5.3

billon on 22 Aug 2020
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 12 Feb 2007
  • Suggested by Fluffy

FastStone Capture is a powerful, flexible and intuitive screen-capture utility. It allows you to capture anything on the screen including windows, objects, full screen, rectangle regions, freehand-selected regions and scrolling windows/web pages. It has innovative features such as a floating Capture Panel, hotkeys, resizing, cropping, text annotation, printing, e-mailing, screen magnifier and many more.

Reported to function in Windows 7 and in Linux under WINE.

Note: FastStone Capture went payware starting from v5.4 so I have made the last freeware version available (v5.3) for direct download as the license agreement does not prohibit redistribution.

Category:
Runs on:Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Wine
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Requires manual entry of drive-less absolute path (eg. \docs\personal\work.doc without the drive letter)
License: Free for personal use
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch FSCapture.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Greenshot, PicPick, ShareX
What's new?
  • Compatible with Windows Vista.
  • Improved quality of 256 color PNG/GIF output.
  • Added:
    • To Email to the Output list;
    • Reset to Primary Screen (only available in Multi-monitor system) to the tray icon's popup menu.
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webfork on 2016-06-02 02:58

@jimdorey: I'm a little confused why we had a listing that this works with Win10 -- it really doesn't. When this version of the program stopped being developed, Win7 wasn't even out yet. Anyway, I recommend trying another software package for that OS. I've updated the entry.

joby_toss on 2016-06-02 11:49

@jimdorey: v5.3 works fine on my win 10 x64 using a 1080p screen resolution. Maybe you're using a high DPI screen/4k monitor, and only the last version (8.4, payware, but worth every penny) works fine in that case.

__philippe on 2016-10-14 15:57

Don't care for FSC freeware near inaudible screenshot audio cue ?

Never fear: Everything you always wanted to know about...
Grafting a neater camera-like snapshot sound to FastStone Capture v5.3...;-)

http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=83541#p83541

Cheers,

__philippe

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WinSnap v1.1.10

freakazoid on 26 Feb 2021

WinSnap is a small utility for taking and editing screenshots. It can easily capture screenshots of non-rectangular windows with the background of your choice, automatically perform simple canvas transformations and coloring effects, add professional Photoshop-style shadows etc. Note that if you are running this on versions of Windows before XP, you will need to place GDIPLUS.DLL in the application folder.

Note: Starting from V2.x, WinSnap is no longer free for personal use. We are linking to the last freeware version available on an alternative site. If you have a more recent freeware version, please post in forums.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
License: Free for personal use
How to extract: Download the "Portable Edition" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch WinSnap.exe.
What's new?
  • New interface languages: Norwegian, Serbian, Portuguese (24+ now)
  • Palette optimization for 8-bit GIF images
  • Issues with auto-save image format were fixed
Latest comments
JMM on 2010-08-22 11:44

I agree with CD. This is simply the best capture tool for Windows.

DzejPy on 2017-02-07 13:10

Download is broken - Error 404.

Can be downloaded from: http://codecpack.co/download/WinSnap.html (link is bottom of the page)

freakazoid on 2021-02-25 16:15

@DzejPy - Just updated the download link. Thanks!

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FGWndGrab v0.4.0

webfork on 4 Feb 2017
  • 173KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Fluffy Bot

FGWndGrab is a screen capture utility supporting 6 different kinds of grabbing (control, client area, window, desktop, virtual screen, and rectangular area). It also features save to clipboard, save to file (multiple image file types supported), multi-monitor awareness, thumbnailing, watermarking, image tagging, image uploading, and automatic background filling.

Note: The site has gone offline so we are linking to the archive.org mirror.

Category:
Runs on:Win98 / WinME / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Non-XP systems require GDI+ DLL to run.
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch FGWndGrab.exe.
Latest comments
dany on 2012-01-04 07:55

I wish this was open source, so that I could get it up to date with win7 and 64bit. I only got 0.1 alpha to work with, but that's a huge step away from 0.4...
Oh well, still one of my favorite screen capture apps.

smaragdus on 2014-04-19 02:06

"Update 0.4.0: Added support for Windows 98..."
This is even more archaic than MWSnap, which was released in 2002 and at least officially supports Windows XP.

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HoverSnap v0.8 Beta

webfork on 29 Apr 2014
  • 407KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Barrette

HoverSnap is a a screen capture tool with JPG, PNG, BMP and GIF support. You can configure it to take snapshots of the full screen, active window or a selected area. It can capture layered windows (alpha-blended ones under 2K/XP).

Note: main site offline, linking to softpedia (thanks Emka and Midas).

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: Application folder
License: Free for personal use
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch HoverSnap.exe.
Latest comments
Rapidtester on 2010-07-02 19:16

Okay, okay. That problem I just described... that has nothing to do with the program's ability to capture. It has EVERYTHING to do with your video cards "acceleration mode". if you disable it under your "Display settings/advanced" simple press of PRNT SCRN will do. But this program is...well, kinda pointless now that I can use PRNT SCRN?

Emka on 2013-12-19 14:29

links broken

Midas on 2014-04-28 14:06

Website unavailable. Softpedia link:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Graphic-Capture/HoverSnap.shtml

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