OK so this isn’t so “Hi Tech” for a developers blog, but it is damn useful and probably not enough people know about it.

Perhaps, you have found a bug and you want to add a screenshot of the problem to your defect tracking. Or you are doing a presentation and need some imagery for the PowerPoint slides. Whatever … this tool will help you.

Just go to the start menu and type in Snipping Tool:

Now the snipping tool will appear and you can select a rectangle from your screen.

Now just do what it says, drag the cursor around the area you want to capture.

It will then show you the image and you can decide whether to save it as a PNG or copy it to the clipboard.

There are better tools that you can download, however it is nice to know about this built in feature you can use from any PC without the hassle of googling-downloading-installing a screen capture program.