GabScreenshot : Capture the full screen, active window or custom region with keyboard shortcuts, using this simple tool that runs in the systray
GabScreenshot is a feather-light application that gives you the possibility to capture the screen in different modes and automatically save images to file with various extensions. It features an intuitive set of options that can be approached even by inexperienced users.
Systray integration and hotkey support
Once launched, it gets integrated into the taskbar notifications area and shows a balloon message with the keyboard shortcuts assigned for grabbing the screen: Ctrl + PrintScreen for full screen, Alt + PrintScreen for active window, and Shift + PrintScreen for custom region.
Configure snapshot settings
By opening the tray icon's right-click menu, you can access the preferences panel to choose the preferred image format (PNG, JPEG, GIF, BMP, ICO, TIFF, WMF, EMF), destination folder, filename prefix, and numeric padding length.Moreover, you can preview the filenames, adjust the opacity level during the region capture, hide the tooltip with the keyboard shortcuts on startup, as well as ask GabScreenshot to automatically run every time you turn on your computer, until further notice. While drawing a custom region with the mouse cursor, you can view the current width and height.
No setup required, besides .NET Framework
Since there is no installation involved, you can save the downloaded files to a custom directory on the hard disk or copy them to a USB flash drive to directly run the program on any PC by just double-clicking its .exe.However, you must have .NET Framework installed, since it was developed with the aid of this platform. On the other hand, it doesn't add new entries to the Windows registry or create files on the disk without your permission.
Evaluation and conclusion
It worked smoothly in our tests, without hanging, crashing or indicating errors. CPU and RAM usage was low. Thanks to its approachable options, GabScreenshot can be easily handled by anyone who wants to quickly take screenshots.
Windows 2008 / Windows 2003 / Windows 8 64 bit / Windows 8 / Windows 7 / Windows Vista / Windows XP / Windows 2000
GabScreenshot runs on
Windows 10/11
and is available under the
Freeware
license
— the installer is 134 KB.
We’ve catalogued it under
Graphics Editing and Painting.
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