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Take Screengrabs from Windows Media Player for FREE

Posted in Howto by Dan at 3:15 pm
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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!

  • Open Window Media Player
  • Then go to Tools | Options
  • In Options, select the Performance Tab
  • On the bottom click on the Advanced Button
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  • Uncheck “Use Overlays’

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  • Click Ok

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

6 Responses to “Take Screengrabs from Windows Media Player for FREE”

  1. Don Wilson says:
    1/3/2007 at 4:49 pm

    Wow, very nice tip.

  2. Jerry says:
    1/3/2007 at 10:00 pm

    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…

  3. Kingox says:
    1/4/2007 at 1:57 am

    Could have sent this in AGES ago.. Iv known about it for quite awhile

  4. Alex B says:
    1/4/2007 at 5:58 am

    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

  5. RyanB says:
    1/6/2007 at 6:16 am

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

  6. yaC says:
    2/14/2007 at 5:59 am

    tnx
    useful ;)

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