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How to take a screenshot of Window's secure desktop?

Fresh3 days ago
Mar 15, 202612880 views
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By default, Windows Vista/7/8's UAC prompt is shown on a secure desktop. Unfortunately the Print Screen key doesn't seem to have any effect when viewing the secure desktop. I can see the reasoning behind this - no user-mode application should be able to capture the contents of the secure desktop. H…

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I have found a rather "black hat" way of doing it... When in a secure desktop, the accessibility tools still work just fine... so, I used my copy of FastStone Capture Portable, I went to and renamed to and copied/renamed from the Faststone directory…

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