Take Screengrabs from Windows Media Player for FREE

January 3, 2007 by Dan in Howto with 6 Comments

There are so many little utilities on the internet they CHARGE to take screen grabs from Windows Media Player (WMP).

So, let us save you some money! Here is the free and simple way to take as many screen grabs as your heart desires!

Now you can use the standard Print Screen method (CTRL + Print Screen), and paste the resulting image into your photo editing application.

Don Wilson

Wow, very nice tip.
Jerry

Didn’t work for me. At least not w/ WMP 11.

It picked up my full screen, and the video image was stationary where WMP had it. If I moved the captured image around, it was like a layer on top of the image… Tried in both PSP and PhotoShop…
Kingox

Could have sent this in AGES ago.. Iv known about it for quite awhile
http://www.myspace.com/AlexTheMartian Alex B

nice to know you can do this, but i rather just open the video in VLC media player and then use its “snapshot” feature, the screengrab is conveniently in a png file in your documents
http://blog.rbenson.info/ RyanB

In the last version of WMP you just hit ctrl + i for a capture
yaC

tnx
useful ;)