I frequently get asked about how you can take a picture of your desktop that can be used in documents and emails. Windows has the functionality to do this built right in but it’s not exactly easy to use. If you want to do it with Windows built in screen capture, you have to hit your “Print Screen” key then paste the image into a graphics program like Paint and save it to your hard drive.

There’s a better way.

Good ole Faststone Imageviewer has a built in screen capture utility. Full details in this post.