How to Find and Remove Duplicate Files on Windows
dupeGuru, dupeGuru Music Edition, and dupeGuru Pictures Edition
The music and pictures editions are specialized for finding similar music files and pictures. For example, the music edition will find the same song, even if they’re in different MP3 files encoded at different bitrates. Or the pictures edition will find copies of the same photo even if they’ve been resized, rotated, or slightly edited. This utility uses a “fuzzy match” algorithm and can find files that are very similar and not just completely identical.
dupeGuru is completely open-source. The installer won’t attempt to
drag any toolbars or other junk onto your system, and it isn’t even
trying to upsell you to anything.
The interface is simple, but easy to use —
open it, add a few folders or drives you want to scan, and click Scan.
You’ll see a list of duplicate files, and you can easily select and
delete the files you want to remove. Double-click a file in the list to
open and examine it.
VisiPics
Use VisiPics to scan for image files that are very similar, even if they aren’t completely identical. For example, VisiPics will find resized, rotated, edited, and otherwise-modified image files and flag them as duplicates. You may not need these multiple similar copies of photos and other images, so VisiPics can help you here.
dupeGuru and other duplicate-file-removing applications can also do this, but VisiPics has an interface designed with photos in mind. If you have a large collection of digital photos, VisiPics is probably the application to use. It will provide a more visual interface for looking at those photos and clearing our your duplicates.
VisiPics is free — donationware, technically — and won’t try to install any junk on your system.
Duplicate File Finder
Duplicate File Finder is another barebones-yet-functional open-source application with a no-frills interface. It actually has a different approach from other applications. It looks for files that have the exact same size and only then compares them to see if they’re duplicates of each other.
This means you won’t get the almost-but-not-quite-exact matching features other applications provide. However, it also means that Duplicate File Finder should be even faster at scanning through a larger set of files. if you only care about files that are completely identical and not just almost identical, you can save time with Duplicate File Finder. It doesn’t have the prettiest interface, but it definitely works.
Remember, don’t delete duplicate files in system folders — for example, under C:\Program Files or C:\Windows. Programs may depend on having duplicate copies of certain files in specific places. Leave system files alone and only clean up your own personal data files — documents, images, music files, videos, and everything else you might have a duplicate copy of.
Friday, October 21, 2016
Accessibility Utilities 6
Tools To Install Windows Faster Using a USB Flash Drive
to create Linux
Universal USB Installer / YUMI
USB install support for: Windows Vista, 7 and 8.
Universal USB Installer and YUMI are similar programs from Pendrivelinux.com, looking and working in a similar way. The main difference is YUMI has support for installing multiple ISO images onto a USB flash drive and Universal USB Installer can install one ISO image at a time. They both have options to install and also download a number of Linux operating system images and repair CD’s along with direct USB installer support for Vista, 7 and 8. These two tools are one of the few that is able to install Kon-Boot onto a USB. All you have to do is select which Windows to install from the Step 1 drop down (near the bottom), locate the ISO and choose the USB drive to install to. Formatting is optional. The YUMI interface is slightly more complicated due to the multiboot options. Both tools are entirely portable.
UNetbootin
USB install support for: None officially, Windows Vista, 7 and 8 worked for us.
UNetbootin is a very popular tool for downloading and installing Linux distro’s onto USB. Although a lot of people try to use it for installing the Windows setup onto USB, the program doesn’t officially support this and it seems a look around the internet reveals there are as many failures as successes. We ran quick tests to install Windows Vista, 7 and 8 ISO’s to USB using UNetbootin and it seemed to work IF you format the flash drive to NTFS beforehand. Just select Diskimage and browse for the ISO file, then choose your USB drive. Because the other tools here are designed to work with Windows by their developers, it’s recommended to try them before UNetbootin.
Boot From a USB Drive Even if your BIOS Won’t Let You
the ingredient:
the result:
WinSetupFromUSB
to create Linux
Universal USB Installer / YUMI
USB install support for: Windows Vista, 7 and 8.
Universal USB Installer and YUMI are similar programs from Pendrivelinux.com, looking and working in a similar way. The main difference is YUMI has support for installing multiple ISO images onto a USB flash drive and Universal USB Installer can install one ISO image at a time. They both have options to install and also download a number of Linux operating system images and repair CD’s along with direct USB installer support for Vista, 7 and 8. These two tools are one of the few that is able to install Kon-Boot onto a USB. All you have to do is select which Windows to install from the Step 1 drop down (near the bottom), locate the ISO and choose the USB drive to install to. Formatting is optional. The YUMI interface is slightly more complicated due to the multiboot options. Both tools are entirely portable.
UNetbootin
USB install support for: None officially, Windows Vista, 7 and 8 worked for us.
UNetbootin is a very popular tool for downloading and installing Linux distro’s onto USB. Although a lot of people try to use it for installing the Windows setup onto USB, the program doesn’t officially support this and it seems a look around the internet reveals there are as many failures as successes. We ran quick tests to install Windows Vista, 7 and 8 ISO’s to USB using UNetbootin and it seemed to work IF you format the flash drive to NTFS beforehand. Just select Diskimage and browse for the ISO file, then choose your USB drive. Because the other tools here are designed to work with Windows by their developers, it’s recommended to try them before UNetbootin.
Boot From a USB Drive Even if your BIOS Won’t Let You
the ingredient:
- PLoP Boot Manager
- RawWrite, to put the contents of the plpbt.img image file found in PLoP’s zip file on a floppy disk.
- USBbootWatcher
- FreeDOS, an open-source implementation of DOS that should run whatever DOS program you need to use.
- RMPrepUSB, USB install support for: Windows XP, Vista, 2008, 7 and 8.
- WaitBT driver takes care for USB boot when there are no any other disks and only USB removable one, without it Windows typically will crash with 0x0000007B stop error.
- free ImDisk mount it as a virtual CD/DVD for example to extract its contents to a folder.
the result:
WinSetupFromUSB
Accessibility Utilities 5
miniMIZE
miniMIZE is a small desktop enhancing application that catches windows that you minimize and puts a thumbnail of the main application window onto your desktop. You can set the direction for which way across the desktop the icons go to suit the best layout for your desktop. For easy identification the icons from each program are displayed on the thumbnails
miniMIZE is no longer developed and the website has all but gone. It does seem to work pretty well on Vista/Windows 7 32-bit, Windows 8 and 64-bit versions do work up to a point although most of the built in Windows components like (Internet) Explorer, Notepad, Paint etc don’t minimize.
ThumbWin
Although it isn’t compatible with 64-bit operating systems, Thumbwin is a more reliable tool than miniMIZE for minimizing and restoring application windows to thumbnails on 32-bit versions of Windows XP, Vista, 7 and also 8. ThumbWin’s feature set is very much like what miniMIZE has to offer.
The thumbnail arrangements can be either top to bottom or left to right with options to auto arrange or display them on a secondary monitor. Also 6 hotkeys can be configured and thumbnail or icon sizes can be reduced or enlarged up to 300px with transparency. The Exclusions window is slightly less useful than that in miniMIZE because it only allows a window or class name to be excluded and not a whole application.
If you right click on the tray icon there are some options to hide, arrange, minimize or restore all open windows. Despite the options and functions on offer, Thumbwin is very low on memory usage and used only around 600K even with several open windows minimized to thumbnails. Unfortunately the program’s official website is in the Japanese language.
Microsoft Scalable Fabric
This tool comes from Microsoft Research and is a prototype software which presumably was a concept they looked at for integrating into Windows at some point. Scalable Fabric works on the idea of a boundary on the desktop, and dragging a window out of this area will minimize it to a thumbnail in an animated way similar to Windows 7’s “Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing” option. You can also click on the window minimize button and restore it again by clicking on the thumbnail.
It’s worth noting that Scalable Fabric dates back to 2005 and was just a development release, the side effects being that it’s still quite buggy in how it deals with the windows and memory usage can fluctuate quite a bit. That being said, the program seemed to work in Windows 7 32-bit without major issues (64-bit was patchy) although the .NET Framework 1.1 is required.
miniMIZE is a small desktop enhancing application that catches windows that you minimize and puts a thumbnail of the main application window onto your desktop. You can set the direction for which way across the desktop the icons go to suit the best layout for your desktop. For easy identification the icons from each program are displayed on the thumbnails
miniMIZE is no longer developed and the website has all but gone. It does seem to work pretty well on Vista/Windows 7 32-bit, Windows 8 and 64-bit versions do work up to a point although most of the built in Windows components like (Internet) Explorer, Notepad, Paint etc don’t minimize.
Although it isn’t compatible with 64-bit operating systems, Thumbwin is a more reliable tool than miniMIZE for minimizing and restoring application windows to thumbnails on 32-bit versions of Windows XP, Vista, 7 and also 8. ThumbWin’s feature set is very much like what miniMIZE has to offer.
The thumbnail arrangements can be either top to bottom or left to right with options to auto arrange or display them on a secondary monitor. Also 6 hotkeys can be configured and thumbnail or icon sizes can be reduced or enlarged up to 300px with transparency. The Exclusions window is slightly less useful than that in miniMIZE because it only allows a window or class name to be excluded and not a whole application.
If you right click on the tray icon there are some options to hide, arrange, minimize or restore all open windows. Despite the options and functions on offer, Thumbwin is very low on memory usage and used only around 600K even with several open windows minimized to thumbnails. Unfortunately the program’s official website is in the Japanese language.
This tool comes from Microsoft Research and is a prototype software which presumably was a concept they looked at for integrating into Windows at some point. Scalable Fabric works on the idea of a boundary on the desktop, and dragging a window out of this area will minimize it to a thumbnail in an animated way similar to Windows 7’s “Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing” option. You can also click on the window minimize button and restore it again by clicking on the thumbnail.
It’s worth noting that Scalable Fabric dates back to 2005 and was just a development release, the side effects being that it’s still quite buggy in how it deals with the windows and memory usage can fluctuate quite a bit. That being said, the program seemed to work in Windows 7 32-bit without major issues (64-bit was patchy) although the .NET Framework 1.1 is required.
Accessibility Utilities 4
Ways To Batch Create Multiple Folders at Once
The good thing about XMD is it can create lots of new folders in different ways. That includes naming by time, day, week, month, year or from text in the clipboard. It also has three different options to create multiple folders at once. XMD is a portable standalone executable.
Creating multiple folders in FreeCommander XE is quite easy. Navigate to the root folder you want to start in then press F7 (or right click > New > Folder). In the new folder dialog enter all the folder names separating each with a vertical line (Shift+\).
Entering subfolder paths is also accepted so you can for example type something like:
MyMusic\Favs|Work|Play|Games\Downloads
FreeCommander XE has both portable and installer versions although the 64-bit version is for donators only. Do note that the XE version has this ability but not the older FreeCommander 2009.
XYplorer
XYplorer is more advanced at creating multiple folders than FreeCommander and is easier to use when you want to create a lot of new folders at once. Go to the root folder where you want to start the folder creation and right click > New > New Folders. This opens up a window where you enter each folder with optional subfolder on each new line.
The advantage with XYplorer over similar free file managers is you can copy and paste whole folder lists into the window from text files or other applications.
Multi Commander
is another free program that can batch create new folders although it requires a semicolon (;) instead of a vertical line to separate names.
Using Third Party Tools / Independent Tools
Text 2 Folders
- Text 2 Folders is a pretty simple and portable multi folder creation tool programmed in the AutoHotkey scripting language. While it’s not loaded with features Text 2 Folders is easy to use and has enough functionality for most users.
- has two modes of operation. One is loading a text file that contains a list of folders and subfolders. The other is a manual option that allows you to type in the folder names yourself or paste them in from another program.
The good thing about XMD is it can create lots of new folders in different ways. That includes naming by time, day, week, month, year or from text in the clipboard. It also has three different options to create multiple folders at once. XMD is a portable standalone executable.
- The first option is selecting the working folder with the browse button and then typing in the folders and subfolders to create separated by a vertical line or pipe (Shift+\).
- The second way is loading a list of names from a text file or typing/pasting the names into the window. Click Options > Load Names From File and browse for the text file or paste the names into the window. Browse for the working folder and press the Start button. If you want to add some of the predefined time and date variables check the box at the bottom.
- The third option creates sequentially numbered folders from the Options > Batch Directories window. After selecting the working folder, configure the start and end numbers and the step. Then enter any prefix text (before the numbers), suffix text (after the numbers) and optional built in time or date variables. It’s also possible to add custom templates for future use.
Create Multiple Folders In a File Manager
FreeCommander XECreating multiple folders in FreeCommander XE is quite easy. Navigate to the root folder you want to start in then press F7 (or right click > New > Folder). In the new folder dialog enter all the folder names separating each with a vertical line (Shift+\).
Entering subfolder paths is also accepted so you can for example type something like:
MyMusic\Favs|Work|Play|Games\Downloads
FreeCommander XE has both portable and installer versions although the 64-bit version is for donators only. Do note that the XE version has this ability but not the older FreeCommander 2009.
XYplorer
XYplorer is more advanced at creating multiple folders than FreeCommander and is easier to use when you want to create a lot of new folders at once. Go to the root folder where you want to start the folder creation and right click > New > New Folders. This opens up a window where you enter each folder with optional subfolder on each new line.
The advantage with XYplorer over similar free file managers is you can copy and paste whole folder lists into the window from text files or other applications.
Multi Commander
is another free program that can batch create new folders although it requires a semicolon (;) instead of a vertical line to separate names.
Accessibility Utilities 3
Storage / Drive / Disk Space Analyzer
WizTree
finds the files and folders using the most disk space on your hard drive
SpaceSniffer (Windows)
SpaceSniffer is a free, portable Windows utility that uses a tree-view to show you which areas on your hard drive take up the most space in a single view.
Space Monger (Windows)
SpaceMonger is another free, Windows-only disk management utility that uses a treemap to show you where the biggest, most space-hogging files are located.
TreeSize is a robust drive analysis tool that comes in multiple flavors.
Is Awesome Eye-Candy Disk Analysis Tool
is a fast disk space analyzer and duplicate file remover software. It helps you to free up disk space by quickly finding and deleting big files. It displays disk space usage with a eye-candy ring chart and dynamic animation. You can navigate the folders easily with the ring chart. It integrates well with Windows file explorer to open, delete and browse files and folders.
DriveSpacio, Disktective
WizTree
finds the files and folders using the most disk space on your hard drive
- VERY Fast! WizTree reads the master file table (MFT) directly from NTFS formatted hard drives (similar to the way Everything Search Engine works)
- Finds the largest files on your hard drive. Every single file on your hard drive can be sorted in order of size.
- File Name Search - quickly locate files by name or wildcard match
- Sort the contents of your entire hard drive by folder size and optionally delete files and folders
- Scan ALL hard drive file system types (NTFS, FAT, FAT32, network, etc) and/or individual folders.
- WARNING: Take care not to remove any files that are required for the correct operation of your PC!
SpaceSniffer (Windows)
SpaceSniffer is a free, portable Windows utility that uses a tree-view to show you which areas on your hard drive take up the most space in a single view.
- arranged in squares that represent which files and folders are using the most space. Click on any large block to see a breakdown of what's inside that folder, also organized by what's taking up the most space.
- You can also filter specific types of files from the scan, tag files and label them for review later, and search specifically for file types, modification dates, and more.
Space Monger (Windows)
SpaceMonger is another free, Windows-only disk management utility that uses a treemap to show you where the biggest, most space-hogging files are located.
- It doesn't support 64-bit systems, but if you're running 32-bit Windows you should be okay.
- SpaceMonger's claim to fame is that it doesn't just allow you to see a treemap of your data, but you can manage, move, copy, and delete that data from inside the app.
TreeSize is a robust drive analysis tool that comes in multiple flavors.
- The free version is also portable, and gives you a quick, directory-oriented view of your hard drive arranged by the folders that take up the most space. Behind the folder names are progress bars that display their relative size to one another, so you can quickly pinpoint the ones that take up the most space.
- You can also expand any folder in the directory list to see its contents.
- In addition to the free version, TreeSize Professional and TreeSize Personal offer the features of the free version, the ability to export reports of your drive layout, the ability to see additional statistics on file types, ages, and modification dates, command line scanning, and more.
- WinDirStat is free, lightweight, comes in a portable version, and upon startup shows you the contents of your drive in three views: a directory-view, which displays your folder contents organized by how much space they're consuming, an extension list that will show you what's inside of the selected directory and how much of what types of files you're using.
- graphic view at the bottom that highlights the contents of your drive in colored blocks that you can highlight or click on for additional information. Hover over a group of blocks to see the folder they're in, or select a specific one to see what it is.
Is Awesome Eye-Candy Disk Analysis Tool
is a fast disk space analyzer and duplicate file remover software. It helps you to free up disk space by quickly finding and deleting big files. It displays disk space usage with a eye-candy ring chart and dynamic animation. You can navigate the folders easily with the ring chart. It integrates well with Windows file explorer to open, delete and browse files and folders.
- Fantastic Visualization, Disk usage visualization with fantastic animation.
- Finding Big and Duplicate Files Easily, Folders and files are sorted by their size. Duplicate files are side-by-side listed. Various types of filters can apply.
- Integrated with Windows File Explorer. Browse, open, and delete, all actions are same as using file explorer. File details are shown in mouse-hover pop ups. Quickly knowing what you have on your disk.
- RidNacs is a one-click disk space analyzer which integrates with Windows right-click context menu, allowing you to analyze space consumed by any selected folder with a single click. It compiles an analysis report to review the used space of specified folders with an option to save report in HTML, CSV, TXT and XML format. It can also be used to verify space usage of remote locations in order to know which folders are taking space on server.
- The main screen shows all the contained files and sub-folder(s) of specified folder with histogram for each file / subfolder, exhibiting the total space acquired. A right-click on file/folder presents Windows native right-click context menu to perform actions over it, including, cut, copy, delete, send to, etc.
- By default, it groups files which are less than 1MB in size. However, from Preferences, you can define the file grouping method and change the Percentage bar style.
DriveSpacio, Disktective
Accessibility Utilities 2
tweaker
WinBubble
installable and portable versions.
graphical
tweaks including setting the OEM branding/logo information and a
customizing the the welcome screen, editing core system icons, customize
the screensaver, and also adjust the Windows appearance settings like
turning on/off Aero and window animations.
More advanced options are customizing the Explorer context menu entries, editing UAC, hiding drives in Explorer, file indexing, user account editing, customizing Internet Explorer and a few general Windows performance tweaks. If you want to go the other way and lock down a computer for less experienced users, there are several options to do that also. If you change too much there’s an option to reset back to Windows defaults.
Vista4Experts
to
quickly configure or turn on and off a number of settings that a more
advanced user is going to want to change. a portable executable and you
simply run it and scroll through a list of the 20 or so options that
will appear. You can edit features such as disable User Account Control,
turn off Windows Indexing, always show file extensions, disable Aero,
check for but don’t download or install updates, always show the Windows
Explorer or Internet Explorer menu, and several more.
Just right click and choose to check, uncheck and disable the feature. Note that some options like the IE default search will do one thing for Check and another for Uncheck. Click Perform Actions when you’re ready to apply the settings, a logoff may be required if the setting requires it. Any options that can be reversed, just use uncheck and then apply.
Just right click and choose to check, uncheck and disable the feature. Note that some options like the IE default search will do one thing for Check and another for Uncheck. Click Perform Actions when you’re ready to apply the settings, a logoff may be required if the setting requires it. Any options that can be reversed, just use uncheck and then apply.
XdN Tweaker
Many
of the options it does have are perhaps a little less for “expert”
users but there are enough to make it similar to the tools above. has
more options available than Vista4Experts but nowhere near as many as
WinBubble. Functions such as controlling hibernation, changing Windows
Update settings, adding some right click menu entries (including take
ownership), and a few interface related tweaks are available. For more
substantial tweaks you will have to look elsewhere, a portable and setup
installer are available.
GIGATweaker
a
startup manager, uninstall manager and a Windows Utilities section that
has many of the built in Windows tools and snap-ins located in one
place. The section even has a Windows rearm option to reset the Windows
evaluation period and the ability to create the Windows God Mode
shortcut for you. selection of options in the Administration, Display
and Customization sections. There are several tweaks to adjust logon and
logoff, User Account Control, Action Center, Windows Update, System and
OEM information, Explorer, Taskbar and Start menu tweaks, and also
Windows visual effects. Open the Console at the bottom to show what the
tweaks are doing to the registry etc. a portable version is available.
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Accessibility Utilities 1
Mouse
Scroll Inside Inactive Windows With Mouse Wheel
KatMouse
Mouse wheel enhancement for Window
WizMouse
makes your mouse wheel work on the window under the mouse.
Always Mouse Wheel
is a small portable Windows program (Multilingual) this gives you the possibility when using the mouse wheel over any window (under the mouse pointer) to scroll via mouse wheel even if the window is not in the foreground e.g focussed.
X-Mouse Button Control
is a free tool for Windows that allows you to re-configure and expand the capabilities of your mouse.
By default, profiles are automatically activated as the mouse moves over the defined window or application.
This has many uses, for example:
Flying Windows includes options to scroll in inactive windows and also holding the Alt key down and clicking your mouse anywhere inside a window to drag it.
MouseImp PRO
Like KatMouse, MouseImp cannot move or resize windows using special methods and concentrates on scrolling inactive windows.
Scroll Inactive Windows
Mouse HunterScroll Inside Inactive Windows With Mouse Wheel
KatMouse
Mouse wheel enhancement for Window
WizMouse
makes your mouse wheel work on the window under the mouse.
Always Mouse Wheel
is a small portable Windows program (Multilingual) this gives you the possibility when using the mouse wheel over any window (under the mouse pointer) to scroll via mouse wheel even if the window is not in the foreground e.g focussed.
X-Mouse Button Control
is a free tool for Windows that allows you to re-configure and expand the capabilities of your mouse.
By default, profiles are automatically activated as the mouse moves over the defined window or application.
This has many uses, for example:
- Changing the behaviour of the mouse over certain windows, such as making the mouse wheel change volume when hovering over the system tray or you-tube video.
- In games which do not natively support the extended, 4th and 5th mouse buttons, you can map keys to each button.
XMBC allows you to change the behaviour of the mouse buttons and
scroll wheel. The extensive list of functions available to map to your
mouse buttons includes options such as:
- Send any keys using the 'simulated keystrokes' editor
- Cording (shifting/combining) buttons perform different actions
- Launch any windows application
- Clipboard control (Copy/Cut/Paste)
- Media control (Play/Pause/Stop/Volume/Mute etc.)
- Capture screen (or active window) image to clipboard
- Click-Drag [Sticky buttons/keys]
- Click-Drag [Sticky buttons/keys]
- Various support for specific Windows operating systems, such as Flip3D in Vista, ModernUI/Metro in Windows 8 and Virtual Desktops in Windows 10!
- And much, much more!
Flying Windows includes options to scroll in inactive windows and also holding the Alt key down and clicking your mouse anywhere inside a window to drag it.
MouseImp PRO
Like KatMouse, MouseImp cannot move or resize windows using special methods and concentrates on scrolling inactive windows.
Screenshot Application
Screenshot / Screen Capture
Built-in Windows Software- Print Screen button / PrtSc / PrtScn / PrntScrn
- (Windows) Snipping tool. Started from windows 7.
- Problem Steps Recorder. Started from windows 7.
- Game DVR. Press Win+G to launch. Hit record (or Win+Alt+R), and it will automatically start capturing video from the program you’ve got open, rather than the entire screen. Started from windows 10.
- Microsoft OneNote started from OneNote 2003
- started from Microsoft Office 2010 application (Word, Outlook, Powerpoint, Excel, Onenote…, etc.)
- "Copy paste a picture" from text, cells, a chart, picture or any other object inside Microsoft Office. Started from Office 97.
- PowerPoint only : Export the slide as a picture / Save a picture as a .jpg, .gif, or .png. Started from PowerPoint 97.
- Getting Pictures Out of Microsoft Office, Choose Save As Web Page / HTML. Started from Office 2000.
- renaming the .docx/.xlsx/ .pptx to .zip. Started from Office 2007.
- Excel only : Camera tool, syncs with the table values on run-time, means on changing any value in the datasheet, reflection can be seen in the image. As you can see on changing value and color of the cell, changes appear in the image. Started from Excel 97.
- edit image: include cropping the captured image, captioning the image, marking a specific area and inserting text.
- can capture the windows running in the background without having to bring them to front.
- take screenshots of the complete screen, active window or an area of the screen.
- Taking over the Print Screen button, it allows you to quickly take area specific screenshots and edit them. The GreenShot Image Editor allows you to move or remove the mouse cursor even after taking the screenshot. Other options include drawing different shapes, adding text to image, obfuscating elements, filling color etc.
- sometimes, either cuts the edges of windows off, or adds a little bit of background around the edges.
- allow you to crop image to selection, resize the image, adjust image, enhance selection, blur the image, adjust its colors, add captions, change its transparency, add special effects, add colors, objects etc.
- support for multi-monitor setup allowing you to take flawless screenshots across all connected monitors.
- share the screenshots.
- 12 screenshot capturing modes. file capturing modes, Live Capture has Window Control Capture, Timing Capture, Repeat Last Capture, Web Capture and Program Menu Capture.
- a Magnifier, Color Picker, Color Palette, Ruler, Editor, Crosshair, Protractor and GIF animator packed within the application.
- “Capture Bar” stays on top of every window – with adjustable transparency – allowing you to quickly grab the screen you want.
- doesn’t have its own image editor.
- The Event Capture feature allows you to set a timer for capture and initiate screenshot capture on specified mouse and keyboard events, such as every mouse click, release or double click or every keyboard key pressed or released. It stores each screenshot in to its own memory and allows you to Export all the selected images in a single PDF file.
- image editor lets you tag additional data to the image, adjust its RGB values, Brightness, Contrast and Color, as well as add lines with adjustable width.
- an option to directly email the images for sharing with someone, from directly within the application.
- there is no Aero-Glass effect or shadow capturing option available.
- Bilderman ─ Automatically Resize Screenshots To User-Specified Size
- ScreenCatch
- Grabilla
- TinyGrab
- Schirmfoto ─ Screenshot Taking, Editing & Sharing App With A Metro UI
- Window Capture ─ Select the desired Window you want to capture. (With Aero on, this will only capture the window itself, and not any windows on top. With aero off, it will capture windows on top, this is a windows design limitation).
- Ticno Screenshooter ─ Lightweight Screenshot Taking App For Windows
- HotShots ─ A Windows Screenshot Utility With Rich Annotation Options
- Screenink ─ A Screenshot App With Powerful Layered Annotation & Freehand Selection
- Postimage ─ Offers Screen Capture With Quick Sharing & Annotation Tools
- Screen Capture + Print ─ Save, Print & Copy Screenshots To Clipboard (hybrid)
- Website Screenshot:
- SiteShoter ─ Take Screenshot Of Any Website At Fixed Time Intervals
- EasyScreenshot: Take Screenshot Of A Website & Upload To Twitter
- Nimbus ─ Offers A Powerful Screenshot Tool For Chrome With Hotkeys Support & An Image Editor.
- TipCase Web Snapshot ─ Easily Capture Complete Webpage Screenshots
- Screenshoter ─ Takes Screenshot Of Everything In One Click
- DuckLink Screen Capture ─ Offers Auto Scroll To Capture Long Documents
- Win 7 Logon Screen Capture ─ Capture Windows Logon Screen Screenshot
- SnapCrab ─ The Best Features From Screenshot Tools Shotty & Greenshot Combined Into One
four basic image capturing modes: Capture Window, Capture Top Level Window, Capture Whole Desktop and Capture Selected Area. - Free Screenshot Capture ─ Includes A Color Picker, Ruler, Protractor & Other Extra Tools
- PicPick ─ All-in-one design tool for everyone.
- ShareX ─ Screen capture, file sharing and productivity tool. combines features in both ZScreen and ZUploader. old version is ShareXmod. requires Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 or higher.
- SnapDraw ─ includes a transparent window with shadow mode that automatically produces a nice looking screenshot with a click without even using the image editor, adds a reflection by default which makes it look really nice.
- Interval / Bulk Capture:
- Auto Screenshot Capture ─ Have Your PC Auto Capture Screenshots At User-Defined Intervals
- AutScreenCap ─ Capture Desktop Screenshots At Regular Intervals
- Screen Sniper ─ Capture & Paste Screenshots In Bulk.
- TimeSnapper Auto ─ Captures Screenshots At Custom Intervals & Plays Them Back Like A Video (hybrid)
- Gadwin PrintScreen ─ Capture Timed Screenshots & Copy Them To The Clipboard
- Free Clipboard Manager ─ Automatically Save Clipboard Items & Screenshots (hybrid)
- PDF24 ─ Create PDF Documents & Take Screenshots In PDF Format (hybrid)
- Snapshoter ─ Screenshot Clipboard Manager And Editor (hybrid)
- Desktop Hunter ─ Take Screenshots With Defined Image Compression Level.
- Free Screen Capturer ─ Powerful Two-In-One Tool For Taking Screenshots & Recording Screencasts. Need free registration.
- Screen Capturer ─ Set Custom Frame Rate For Recording Screencasts
- ScreenParts ─ Lets You Take Screenshot Of Any Screen Region & Copies It To Clipboard. (hybrid)
- Windows Screen Capture Tool ─ requires .NET Framework 4.0 installed.
- HyperCam is by the makers of the excellent screenshot tool, HyperSnap. The latest version of HyperCam 3 is currently being maintained and sold by a different company while the previous version 2 is offered for free. HyperCam 2 can record both screen and sound including layered or transparent windows. One of a very unique and useful feature is the ability to move the captured region. The video recordings are saved as AVI format and there is no video editing tools. Take note during installation because it prompts to install adware
Read More: https://www.raymond.cc/blog/free-online-screen-recording-with-screencast-o-matic/ - Remote System:
- Screen View ─ Remotely View The Screen Of Another PC On Network & Take Screenshots. (hybrid)
- Network Spy ─ Receive Periodic Screenshots Of A Remote System.
- Ybex Clipboard ─ Share Clipboard Data And Screenshots Between Remote Computers.
- Share features:
- Jumpshare ─ Comes To Windows; Lets You Upload & Share Files, Folders & Screenshots In One Click.
- Puush ─ Capture Screenshots & Upload Files For Instant Sharing.
- Dropbox ─ How To Auto-Upload Screenshots With Dropbox & Easily Share Them.
- CloudShot ─ Automatically Upload Screenshots To DropBox.
- ZScreen ─ Take Screenshot And Upload It Online.
- LightShot ─ captured region can be instantly used to search for similar images on Google or Tineye. uses an online image editor that looks like Photoshop with support for layers to edit screenshots. Save to your computer or to online image hosting sites such as Flikr, Picasa or imm.io. Beware during installation because the full installation method which is selected by default installs 3rd party search engine to your web browser. LightShot supports Windows, Mac OS and also browser extensions.
- Step-by-Step:
- SnapInstall ─ Mouse Triggered Screenshot Tool To Create Product Manuals.
- StepShot ─ Create Step-by-Step (How-To) Product Guides And Help Manuals.
Screen Capture & Screen Recording / Screen Recorder (Hybrid)
- oCam Makes Capturing Screenshots & Screencasts A Snap
- TinyTake
- minimum of 4GB of RAM.
- can record video up to 120 minutes, webcam video recording, capture image, Zoom in/out and more. You can also annotate videos.
Screen Recording / Screen Recorder / Screen Cast
Screen2Exe ─ Free Instant Screen Video Capture SoftwareFree Screen To Video ─ Save Screencast To FLV/AVI/WMV/SWF Video File
BB FlashBack Express ─ A Free Windows Screencast Video Software
Screencast Capture Lite ─ A No-Frills, Free Screen Recording Tool For Windows
Rylstim Screen Recorder ─ A Screencast Tool For Windows That Focuses On Simplicity
Cute Screen Recorder ─ Straightforward Screencast Tool
Acala Screen Recorder ─ Record Screencasts To AVI Or Self Running EXE Files.
Any Video Recorder
Atomi ActivePresenter
- Can’t upload the recorded videos directly online
- Its free version lacks various useful features available in its premium versions.
- output video file can be saved as AVI, MP4, WMV or WebM.
- video tutorials, without watermark or time limit. export to other formats will have a watermark.
Bandicam Screen Recorder
- Can’t get rid of its watermark in the free version
- 10-minute recording cap for the free version
Bytescout Screen Capturing
Desktop2Record
Easy Screencast Recorder
Extra Screen Capture Free
Ezvid Video Maker
- Allows recording videos up to 45 minutes
- Supports uploading videos directly on YouTube only
- Offers no customizable settings for recording the screen
Free Screencast
Freez Screen Video Capture
Icecream Screen Recorder
- Free users get a 10-minute cap of screen recording time
- Offers limited functionalities and editing options in its free edition
- Its recordings can’t be used for commercial purposes by free users
- you can create short video and share them.
- can also capture image of by selecting an area on your computer screen.
- It supports video recording up to 5 minutes.
Krut Computer Recorder
LICEcap
- output to GIF
SMRecorder
SRecorder
Screenpresso
- No support for Android with its free edition
- Recordings’ max. duration is just 3 minutes
- Limits image editing features and mandates updates for the free users
- Can’t remove watermarks from images, videos or documents in its free version
Screen Recorder Free
Screen Recorder by Free Recorders
Screen Recorder by Randelshofer
Screen View!
Screen2Avi
ScreenFaceCam
ScreenTwin
ScreenVirtuoso PRO
TakeScreen Lite
VidShot Capturer ─ Record PC Screen The Simple Way For Windows
VSDC Free Screen Recorder
Webcam Screen Video Capture Free
Webinaria
is an open source desktop recorder that can record your computer screen, camera and sound without watermark or limitation. The output file can be either saved as AVI or FLV or publish to Webinaria’s website. It is possible to add text to the recording on the simply video editor.
Weeny Free Video Recorder
eLecta Live Screen Recorder
oCam
xvideocapture
Screenshot Individual UI Elements
- Snipaste
- SnipSnip
Dialog Box or Error Messages
Built in Windows FunctionYou can copy Windows dialog box and error messages. When the box appears, simply make sure it’s the active window and press the standard Windows copy shortcut combination of Ctrl+C. Now the data is in the clipboard, paste the contents into notepad or webpage etc.
- GetWindowText
- ShoWin
- SysExporter from Nirsoft
- WinScraper
- Textractor
- Copy Text from Command Prompt.
- Method 1 (right click)
- While you’re in Command Prompt, right click at anywhere inside the window and select Mark.
- Now use your left mouse button to drag a box over the area of text that you want to copy, scroll can also be used to capture multiple lines. Once you have the text, click the right mouse button or press Enter to copy the selected text to the clipboard. Then you can right click and select Paste to paste into Notepad or a webpage etc.
- Method 2 (enable permanent quickedit mode)
- Right click on Command Prompt’s title bar and select Properties. On the options tab, tick to enable QuickEdit Mode and click OK.
- Now your left mouse button will permanently be used to mark text and the right mouse will copy it to the clipboard. If there is no highlighted text, the right mouse button will paste any clipboard contents to the window, useful for copying commands off a webpage etc.
Extension And Bonus
Snapshoter Is Screenshot Clipboard Manager And Editor [Firefox]GIF Scrubber
- For Google Chrome
- Media Player For Animated GIFs With Frame-By-Frame Scrubbing
- For Firefox
- stop, pause, and play GIFs.
- ‘auto-play on hover’ option.
- AlertBox Tracks Changes In Individual Elements On A Web Page [Firefox]
- ReloadIt Alerts You On Finding Changes In Web Pages Of Your Choice
- NotiPage – Monitor Web Pages For Changes Or Updates Without Using RSS
Drawing House Using Corel Draw
(white space technique)
•Draw A Black Wall
» Rectangle Tool (F6)
» draw a wall, hold Ctrl when draw Rectangle
» Fill = Black
•Draw Four Square Windows
» draw 4 square windows, Fill = White
» move to the top left
» Shaping > Back Minus Front
The Door
•Draw A Big White Door
» draw door, all four Corner Roundness = 20, Fill = White, Outline = None
» move to right bottom corner of wall
•Draw A Small Black Door
» copy and resize, Width Scale Factor 95%, click on the lock icon "Nonproportional Scaling/Sizing Ratio"
» move to the center relative to big black door, Arrange > Align and Distribute > Align Centers Horizontally (E)
» Fill = Black
» left bottom and right bottom Corner Roundness = 0
•Modify Two Door
» select both door (big black door and small black door) from the last draw.
» Shaping > Back Minus Front
» Arrange > Group
•Draw A Big Black Roof
» View > Dynamic Guides
» Polygon tool, set the number of Points/Sides to 3
» draw triangle, paralel align centre than the wall. press and hold Shift + Ctrl + drag from center.
» Fill = Black
•Draw A Small White Roof
» copy and resize, Scale Factor width about 60%, height about 80%, ensure position is closely attached without a gap on both roof (a big black roof and small white roof) of their bottom side.
» Fill = White
» select both roof (a big black roof and small white roof)
» Shaping > Back Minus Front
add grass for decoration.