Windows has always had the native screen capture functionality via the Print Screen button, but this is extremely limited to just capturing the full screen or the active window. Of course, then you had to paste this capture into another program to actually save the image making this a rather cumbersome process. Windows Vista now has a much improved utility for...

Periodically there will be times you’ll want to capture a screenshot of something on your computer screen. Your options of doing this the Windows way is a bit limited. The Windows way is by using ALT+PrintScreen (capture focused window) or CTRL+PrintScreen (capture entire screen including taskbar). Both are inadequate because you can’t be specific...

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