If you go to the DonationCoder website, they have a nice screenshot utility called Screenshot Captor. Technically its free, but you do get a small number of nag screens (one every six months, I think, and it only appears twice) prompting you to register by joining the site. You might want to consider it - you pay whatever you want to join, and then you get all the software they offer for free, plus a lot of other nice features. (They even have a forum where one of the programmers will code small utilities on request!) I joined a while back and it was well worth it!

Obligatory feature list:

• Optimized for taking lots of screenshots with minimal intervention.
• Smart autonaming of files, and ability to embed textual comments in files.
• Good multi-monitor support.
• Highly configurable to make it work the way you want it to; stays out of your way in the system tray.
• Lots of capture modes: Mutlimon, Desktop, Active Window, Region, Windows Object. Each mode has a hotkey for quick access.
• Unique Cool Effects, including automatic active window enhancement (see picture on website).
• Optional automatic image file versioning.
• Autoscroll capture for windows too big for screen.
• Deluxe thumbnail maker.
• Text scraper - grab text from dialog boxes and error messages.

All that said, even though I have this program, I still tend to stick with ALT+PrintScreen to capture the window to the clipboard, then paste it into my graphics program (or IrfanView) for tweaking and saving. Old habits die hard, I guess.

• Jimdoria  ~@>@