Snag a screenshot of a remote console with LSGrab

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Snag a screenshot of a remote console with LSGrab

by Simon Kerbel Dec 31st 2007

It's not often that the help desk people get any love, either in the form of praise, or in the form of software designed to make their jobs easier.

Well, here's a little love.

LSGrab, a freeware application designed by Moernaut.com software, allows you to take a screenshot of a remote Windows computer. The footprint is small, and the execution is flawless; another example of DWIS software (Does What It Says, for the layman).

Think of the time-saving possibilities: rather than having to walk a remote client through the method of taking a screenshot, simply open LSGrab, type, click, and it's done.

LSGrab is available as a console or a GUI version. With the console version, there's two command-line switches:

/c: specifies the computer name
/p: specifies the path to store the screenshot

The GUI version does the same; its only advantage is, you guessed it, the interface.

[Via Confessions of a freeware junkie]

Tags: freeware, remote, remote computer, RemoteComputer, screenshot, windows

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