Greenshot is an open-source screen capture program for Windows that supports window, region, and full-screen capture.

You can perform basic image editing to captured images - create rectangles, ellipses, lines, arrows, and text boxes. Objects can be deleted, resized, or moved as needed, plus you can change line and text colors as well as line thicknesses.

After running the software, press PrtScr and then use your mouse pointer to select a region to capture, Alt + PrtScr to capture the current window, or Ctrl + PrtScr to capture the current screen. Or right-click on the icon Greenshot adds to the System Tray area of the Windows Taskbar.

Click the "Edit" - "Preferences" menu option from a captured screen window, or right-click the tray icon and choose "Preferences" to configure the software. The "General" tab offers basic configuration options such as registering the hotkeys and displaying a desktop shortcut. The "Output" tab allows you to configure what happens after a screen capture including whether or not to allow image editing, auto-save images, adjust JPEG quality, print screen captures, and more.

Tip: you may want to uncheck "Play camera sound" underneath "Effects" in the "General" tab.

More information including download links can be found at the following address. Note that a version exists that does not require an installer.

Greenshot: http://greenshot.sourceforge.net/

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