How to capture a screenshot for your blog

    It took me a little practice to get good at capturing a screenshot and adding it to my blog, so I thought some of you might appreciate a couple of tips!

    I am using the PrtSc (Print Screen) button on my laptop to capture the screenshot.  This automatically Copies the visible part of the screen to your Clipboard.
    Next I open Paint and grab the select tool (the square dotted line on the left top of the sidebar), rightclick anywhere in the large white field and click paste.

    You will notice that the screenshot is surrounded by a dotted line (selected) while the image is selected go up to Image and click Crop.  This will keep the saved screenshot from having a large white border.
    Now is the time to make any extra comments or changes to the image like write comments.  I removed my email address using Paint's Eyedropper to pick the color, zoom in and use the Brush tool to paint out my email address.
    Your image is still too large to display  properly in a blogger window so I suggest you go back up to Image, Resize/Skew and type a percentage into both fields;

    This works to take an exact copy of what is currently visible on your screen. If you want to take capture the entire web page to save in an image format such as .jpg you can use the new Chrome Extension "Explain And Send Screenshots.

    There are options to " Grab visible part of this page"  "Grab a selected area" or "Grab the entire page"

    Notice the capture is a little different than the images captured using PrtSc.  Only the web page is visible, not all my tabs and Taskbar etc.  This my be better in some applications.  The ability to quickly comment on the page and to capture the entire page rather than just the visible part is also handy!

Process Explorer, Microsoft's Task Manager-zilla!

   Sysinternals Process Explorer is an advanced Task Manager with better descriptions and the ability to replace Task Manager when you click Ctrl. Alt. Del. or right click on the lower Taskbar!

   Where Task Manager tells me I have the process "avp.exe" running, I have to select and click Properties to see that it is my anti virus program, Kaspersky.  With Process Explorer all I have to do is scroll over and a descriptive paragraph pops up!

It's also got a nice graphical System Information window with ability to graph each processor separately.

You can learn a lot about your system and how Windows works by studying your system using Process Explorer.

Process Explorer at Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_Explorer

Process Explorers user forum;
http://forum.sysinternals.com/topic10998.html

Authors site;
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

Download Process Explorer