Boxcutter is a simple command line-driven screenshot program for Microsoft Windows. Below you find a short script I wrote that will take a screenshot of the full screen every 20 seconds until 100 screenshots are saved.
One usage scenario (I plan to use) is where you are running an OS installation within a Virtual Machine and want to take screenshots of the various stages of the installation without having to manually take a screenshot. You would just let the script run, it will probably produce more screenshots as needed, but these then can be deleted manually afterwards.
@echo off :: ———————————————- :: seconds to wait until taking next screenshot set waitsecs=20 :: maximum # of screenshots that will be taken set maxcapture=100 :: ———————————————
set start=0 :CAPTURE
:: first prepare the filename using date and time string, cut off fractional seconds and replace :: colons with dashes set t=%time:~0,8% set t=%t::=-% set FileName=capture-%date%-%t%
:: Capture fullscreen boxcutter.exe -f %FileName%.png timeout %waitsecs% set /A count=start+1 set start=%count% if %count% gtr %maxcapture% GOTO :END GOTO :CAPTURE
:END Echo Screen Capture batch process completed. pause
Boxcutter is FREE and can be downloaded from Matthew D. Rasmussen’s website here