Best 10 Free Screen Recording Softwares For Creating Screencasts

Mostly tutorials which are some hard to understand or complicated in writing skip by the peoples, because of text tutorials only. But if we create a proper video by capturing our computer/laptop screen and upload the video with the tutorial, then it will become more comfortable to your visitors. We can describe anything which we perform on our computer to anyone by just making a proper video of our actions. 

We use screencasting (screen recording) for making the video of our various tasks performed by us on our computer. By screen recording we can better describe/demonstrate our tutorial which is some how related to computer products or services. And by our screencasted video we can spread our tutorial in easy and fast way.

Today, I am going to share some great collection of screencasting (screen recording) software which are free to use and easy to handle. Here are the 10 best screen recording software.

CamStudio

CamStudio is an open source screen recorder software which can record every screen and audio activity on a computer & create industry-standard AVI video files or bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWF).

Operating system support: Windows

Jing

Jing can both take screenshots & capture a screen as videos. It is possible to add textboxes, arrows or rectangles to highlight spots.

It can send the generated outputs to Screencast.com, Flickr, a FTP account, Twitter & more.

With a microphone, you can record audio with the video as well.

Operating system support: Windows, Mac OS X

Webineria

This is a very easy-to-use open source software to create screencasts.

It records the screen as an .AVI file & offers an option to create .FLV file from it. With the help of hotkeys, it is possible to start-pause & stop recording.

A great feature is, it can combine another video input (like webcam) with thescreen recording process.

Operating system support: Windows

Wink

Wink is a tutorial and presentation creation software which can capture screenshots & enables you to add explanation boxes, buttons, titles & more.

It supports various output formats like .EXE, .FLV, .HTML, etc.

Operating system support: Windows, Linux

UltraVNC Screen Recorder

UltraVNC Screen Recorder is based-on CamStudio source with updates to improve the performance.

It supports both audio & screen capturing.

Operating system support: Windows

Windows Media Encoder

Windows Media Encoder is a powerful application for capturing audio and video content with high-quality multichannel sound, high-definition video quality, and support for mixed-mode voice and music content.

You may find this helpful: Getting Started with Screen Capture Using Windows Media Encoder.

Operating system support: Windows

BB FlashBack Express

BB FlashBack Express is the free version of some other advanced series. It can record from a video source, screen & audio.

It can export to AVI or FLV & has integrated support for direct uploading to the popular video sharing websites.

Operating system support: Windows

CaptureFox (Firefox add-on)

CaptureFox is a Firefox add-on which can record screens frame-by-frame to create tutorials. It also supports audio recording.

Operating system support: All major operating systems

uTIPu TipCam

TipCam, besides the standard screen recording with audio & video, has various features like:

• has AVI & FLV support
• audio can be re-recorderd
• beginning & end parts can be trimmed
• video can zoom to the mouse cursor with smart zooming
• ability to draw free-style during recording

Operating system support: Windows

Krut

This is a tiny Java application (works on many platforms) for creating screencasts.

Krut records movie files of selected parts of your screen in the quicktime mov format, including sound. The program has an intuitive and compact user interface.

Operating system support: All major operating systems

How to install Windows 7, Windows 8 and Vista using pen drive

Requirements: 

*USB Flash Drive (Minimum 4GB)

*Windows 7 or Vista installation files.
Follow the below steps to create bootable Windows 7/Vista USB drive using which you can
install Windows 7/Vista easily.

1. Plug-in your USB flash drive to USB port and move all the contents from USB drive to a safe location on your system.

2. Open Command Prompt with admin rights. Use any of the below methods to open Command Prompt with admin rights.

*Type cmd in Start menu search box and hit Ctrl+ Shift+ Enter.

Or 

*Go to Start menu > All programs > Accessories, right click on Command Prompt and select Run as administrator.

3. You need to know about the USB drive a little bit. Type in the following commands in the command prompt:

First type DISKPART and hit enter to see the below message.




Next type LIST DISK command and note down the Disk number (ex: Disk 1) of your USB flash drive. In the below screenshot my Flash Drive Disk no is Disk 3.

4. Next type all the below commands one by one. Here I assume that your disk drive no is “Disk 3”.If you have Disk 2 as your USB flash drive then use Disk 2. Refer the above step to confirm it. So below are the commands you need to type and execute one by one:


SELECT DISK 3  
CLEAN 
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY 
SELECT PARTITION 1 
ACTIVE 
FORMAT FS=NTFS 
(Format process may take few seconds)
ASSIGN 
EXIT 

Don’t close the command prompt as we need to execute one more command at the next step. Just minimize it.




5. Next insert your Windows7/Vista DVD into the optical drive and check the drive letter of the DVD drive. In this guide I will assume that your DVD drive letter is “D” and USB drive letter is “O” (open my computer to know about it).

6. Maximize the minimized Command Prompt in the 4th step. Type the following command now:

D: hit enter.
CD BOOT and hit enter.

Where “D” is your DVD drive letter.

7. Type another command given below to update the USB drive with BOOTMGR compatible code.

BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 O: 





Where “O” is your USB drive letter. Once you enter the above command you will see the below message.

8. Copy your Windows 7/Vista DVD contents to the USB flash drive.

9. Your USB drive is ready to boot and install Windows 7/Vista. Only thing you need to change the boot priority at the BIOS to USB from the HDD or CD ROM drive. I won’t explain it as it’s just the matter the changing the boot priority or enabling the USB boot option in the BIOS.

Note: If you are not able to boot after following this guide means you haven’t set the BIOS priority to USB. If you got any problem in following this guide feel free to ask questions by leaving comment.

You can install windows 8 similarly using pendrive

How to convert Windows 7 into Windows 8

New Tile-based Windows 8 is getting around the corner. But for those who like Tiles, Here are the few tools that can make their Windows 7 to the tiles. Special thanks toIntoWindows and One of my Online freind for finding and sharing some of these tools on their website.

Omnimo 4

Omnimo 4 is a Windows Phone 7 inspired multifunctional interactive desktopinformation center based on Rainmeter, a popular desktop customization platform. It turns your desktop into a productive and attractive workarea where delivers the information you need. Every interactive tile on the desktop gives you information at glance, and can be easily customized to your needs.
Omnimo 4 requires Rainmeter 2.0 or higher installed on your Windows 7 system first  before can be installed and configured.

AeroTile

AeroTile is a free portable utility tools that adds an selective glassy aeroful tiles on your computer’s desktop. By using it, you have the choices choosing many of the options like My Computer, Control Panel, Fonts, My Documents, etc.
It’s a fairly easy to use tool. Simply download and extract the files from the zipped file, and launch it. Then, pick up the items you want them to show on your desktop in tile shape. The only downside is that you will have to manually organize those tiles to make them layout neatly.

Mosaic (formally known as Metro Home 2)

Mosaic is an application that brings Metro UI to your desktop. It’s a set of widgets that displays in tile on your desktop showing the content from your local computer or from the Internet.


When the application is running, it shows a list of selective choices from the panel that stick to the right side of your desktop. Simply click to select them and it will immediately show on the desktop. Once on the desktop, you will be able to move them around just dragging and dropping to the grid predefined by the application.

Windows8Menu

Windows8Menu is a simple portable application that put the Windows 8 UI on top of Windows 7 desktop. It works just like any other application that you can simply launch and see what it offers. You can also customize the settings to show the stuff you would like to see.

Zetro

Zetro is a Windows 8 metro UI style theme made for Windows 7. It brings the snazzy tiles to Windows 7. The Zetro theme takes a few steps to get Windows 7 ready to the tile, but it’s fairly easy to follow the instructions in the Readme file from the package. And because it’s a Theme pack, you can switch between Tiles and Aeros back and forth fairly easy.