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Subject:Re: FWD: Screen Shots BEFORE OS Loads From:Dave Swenson <Dave_Swenson -at- TRENDMICRO -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 11 Jun 1998 10:45:44 -0700
PC-Anywhere is another (but resolution is not too hot and installation is
not too convenient).
But in another vein, I would think that any program (or script) that runs
before Windows starts can also be run after it starts, perhaps in a dos
shell.
Or, if it is your program, and written in c++, for example, you can just get
the individual screens from the developers.
Finally, if they are fairly simple screens, I would just create them myself
using PaintShop Pro -- cut and paste the various screen elements (borders,
fields, radio buttons, whatever) from existing screens in the same family
and label the fields as you like the PaintShop Pro text editor.
David Swenson
Technical Writer
Trend Micro, Inc.
Tel: (408) 863-6342
Email: david_swenson -at- trendmicro -dot- com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Warren [SMTP:David -dot- Warren -at- NEXTEL -dot- COM]
> Sent: Thursday, June 11, 1998 8:46 AM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Re: FWD: Screen Shots BEFORE OS Loads
>
> There are remote administration tools for the Mac and PC that present
> the display from one machine within a window of another (Timbuktu is
> one of them--sorry, long time since I fooled with 'em.) Have the
> screenshot tool capture the contents of the Timbuktu window, and
> voila! (Not perhaps the cheapest solution...circa $100, but
> hey--gets
> the job done.)
>
> (This is a trivial matter under UNIX, but *that* wasn't your
> question....)
>
> Cheers!
>
> David T. Warren
> Pubs. Mgr., Nextel
>
>
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> Subject: FWD: Screen Shots BEFORE OS Loads
> Author: "Eric J. Ray" <ejray -at- RAYCOMM -dot- COM> at INTERNET
> Date: 6/11/98 6:18 AM
>
>
> Name withheld upon request. Please reply on list.
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>
> Gang,
>
> I'm documenting a process that includes starting the PC and logging into
> the network. I'd like to include screen shots of the network login
> process, but have not found a way to get the screen shots. We run Windows
> NT 4, and the network login occurs before NT loads: By the time most
> screen
> shot software can run, the screens I need have long since vanished.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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>
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