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Screen recording without third-party software on Windows 7?

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 2026400495 views
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Is there a way to do screen recording on Windows 7 without installing third-party software? (Doing it with Microsoft software would be okay.) Specifically, I'd like to be able to run a program and generate a video file (for example, .avi) of the session. These would be short 30 second or so clips.

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The closest thing I can think of is Problem Steps Recorder. You can access it by clicking the Start button and typing "psr.exe" and hitting enter. This tool will record each mouse-click and save it as an image, then compile everything into HTML (more specifically, a Microsoft MHT file). However this is not a video capture tool. As far as I know, there isn't one built-in to Windows. You may look into downloading the free VLC player. With VLC, you can use your desktop as a capture device: Click M…

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