On some Windows systems, it's easier to fight the Huns than to capture a screenshot from your DVD.

On some Windows systems, it can almost be easier to fight the Huns than it is to capture a screenshot from your DVD.

Today I had a customer who wanted to capture screenshots from a DVD he owns. The reason: Slides are presented on this DVD, and he wanted to be able to print a copy.

Should be simple, right?

Not necessarily. On some Windows computers it IS easy, but on some other systems it’s not easy at all.

In fact, I had tried this particular task on my own computer a couple of years ago, reached the limits of my personal patience at the time, and left it for some other day.

Today, as it turns out.   continue reading…