Windows Vista and Windows 7 come with several built-in tools which either people don’t use or stay away from them due to their perceived limited functionality. Two of those quite impressive tools are:
- Snipping Tool
- Sound Recorder
We do agree that these tools do not offer extensive functionality similar to third-party softwares, however they are excellent tools when it comes to basic tasks. And don’t forget, they are free too. Save yourself from spending a few hundred bucks for your elementary tasks.
1. Use Windows Snipping Tool to create high quality screen captures for your presentations, blogs, websites and documents.
Windows Snipping Tool comes in handy over here. You can use it to capture a screen shot of your whole screen, or a particlular region of it, or any object on your screen and then annotate and save it as an image file. You can also share a screenshot right after capturing it.
You can capture the following types of snips with Windows Snipping tool.
To access Windows Snipping tool, click Start > All Programs > Accessories > Snipping Tool
2. Use Windows Sound Recorder to record media on your system
Windows Vista and Windows 7 come with a built-in sound recording tool that helps you record sound eliminating the need of any third-party sound recording softwares.
To access Windows Sound Recorder, click Start > All Programs > Accessories > Sound Recorder
Techlisher.com recommends both these Windows built-in tools for your basic tasks and especially if you are one who would not like to spend hundreds of bucks on commercial screen capture and sound recorder softwares for your daily and elementary tasks.
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