There are some really handy free utilities to capture live screens from your PC. If you’re running Windows XP, a very powerful tool is Windows Media Encoder. The link to this utility is shown below, and I’ll be adding some ‘how to’ notes and examples soon..
The user notes – very comprehensive – as supplied by Microsoft are in the attached 100page pdf (the file’s not too large though!). As you can see this package is fairly powerful. I’ll provide a simper guide focussing on the capturing side of it only