TW-AutoScreenshot : Automatically captures desktop activity to image files at a user-defined frequency while remaining hidden from sight, with support for a hotkey to manually take screenshots
TW-AutoScreenshot is an intuitive and approachable software utility for Windows users, which can be set to automatically capture the screen while working in the background. For example, you can use it to monitor the activity of a program performing a time-consuming task when planning to leave the workstation unattended.
Quick setup and user-friendly GUI
The installation procedure is a fast and easy job which does not need special attention. As for the interface, TW-AutoScreenshot adopts a normal window with a plain and simple structure, which provides direct access to all available options.
Easily configure settings to capture the screen
It is possible to establish the output path for saved screenshots, pick the preferred image extension (default is JPG), indicate the frame grabbing frequency (in seconds), as well as configure a simple shortcut for manually capturing the screen.TW-AutoScreenshot supports multiple languages and can be set to run at every Windows startup until further notice. In other to run the tool, you have to click a button to start its service. While it's taking snaphots, TW-AutoScreenshot hides from the taskbar or notifications area. Evidently, all images are taken in full screen mode.
Evaluation and conclusion
We have not come across any issues in our tests, since TW-AutoScreenshot did not hang, crash or pop up error messages. It has a good response time to commands and worked well in our tests, without hanging, crashing or popping up error messages. CPU and RAM consumption is low, so it does not affect the overall performance of the computer.To sum it up, TW-AutoScreenshot is not particularly resourceful in its feature set, but the tool provides users of any experience level with a simple and effective means of silently monitoring the desktop activity to capture the screen.
Windows 10 64 bit / Windows 10 / Windows 2008 64 bit / Windows 2008 / Windows 2003 / Windows 8 64 bit / Windows 8 / Windows 7 64 bit / Windows 7 / Windows Vista 64 bit / Windows Vista / Windows XP
TW-AutoScreenshot runs on
Windows 10/11
and is available under the
Time-limited Trial
license
— the installer is 492 KB.
We’ve catalogued it under
Graphics Editing and Painting.
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