Many programs are designed for taking screenshot of computer screen. Actually, there are two kinds of capture tool: Freeware and Shareware. It is easy to see that freeware is free but has its limitations, and shareware is free download and if you think it is what you need and then you can buy it. So you can choose one as your needs. This document is specifically for How to take screenshot with PCHand Screen Capture.

Step 1: Open the program you want to take screenshot.
Step 2: Run PCHand Screen Capture, choose the appropriate input and output type. For example, if you want to take screenshot for an active window, you’d better make “Active Window” as the capture mode.
 

Step 3: Make sure the image is displaying in the front of screen, hit “Capture” button.

 Step 4: Take screenshot what you want, the screenshot will be sent to the pre-set output, then done.

 Tip 1: If you choose “Editor” as the output mode, the captured screenshot will be sent to the build-in editor automatically. More detail, see ‘How to Edit Captured Images‘.

 Tip 2: If the default capture mode can’t meet your needs, and you want to create one, just see ‘How to Create Capture Profile‘

This tutorial, which contains two parts, will show you some details on how to record audio in Windows Vista & Windows 7 system.

Part one: How to record audio from PC.
Part two: How to record audio from Microphone.

Part one: How to record audio from PC

Step 1: Open PCHand Screen Recorder, Click ‘Audio’. This is the most basic step of record setting.

Step 2: Click ‘Volume Control’ to start the setting and this window will pop-up. Then right-click to select these two options at the same time: ‘Show Disabled Devices’ and ‘Show Disconnected Devices’.

Step 3: If Stereo Mix is not available, you should enable it. Just right-click ‘Stereo Mix’ to select ‘Enable’ option. (Notice: If ‘Enable’ option is not available, you need to install the Audio Driver)

Step 4: Press ‘Set Default’ to specify ‘Stereo Mix’ as default device. Now, you can record audio from PC.

Part two: How to record audio from Microphone.

Step 1: Do steps 1-2 of part one.

Step 2: Just select ‘Microphone’ as default device to record audio from Microphone.

This tutorial, which contains four parts, will show you how to check it out Step-by-step.

Part one: How to set the basic record parameters.

Part two: How to record the audio from PC.

Part three: How to record the audio from Microphone.

Part four: How to record the audio from both PC and Microphone.

Part one: How to set the basic record parameters

This part is the most basic step of record setting.

Step 1: Open PCHand Screen Recorder, Click ‘Audio’.

 Step 2: Click ‘Volume Control’ to start the setting and this window will pop-up.

Step 4: Select the ‘Stereo Mix’ option, and then click ‘OK’; you will find that it will display in the Recording Control.

Part two: How to record the audio from PC.

Step 1: Do the steps 1-4 of part one.

Step 2: Select ‘CD Volume’, ‘Mic Volume’ and ‘Line Volume’ options at the same time as following, then you can record any audio from your PC.

Part three: How to record the audio from Microphone.

Step 1: Do the steps 1-4 of part one.

Step 2: Select ‘CD Volume’, ‘Line Volume’ and ‘Stereo Mix’ options at the same time as following, then you can record the sound of the speakers from your microphone.

Part four: How to record both.

Step 1: Do the steps 1-4 of part one.

Step 2: Select ‘CD Volume’ and ‘Mic Volume’ options at the same time as following, then you can record the audio both from PC and Microphone.