remote screenshots

[skippy_nz]

hey guys - i was thinking about one of threads from a while ago where someone wanted to know how to do screenshots of the machine without a keyboard / mouse attached - and just thought about a way of doing this remotely - the steps that would be followed are:

on a random computer that have networked you run a exe which prompts for the HTPC Machine Name, Username , and Password that can connect to create a scheduled task

this scheduled task will run in 15 seconds time which will then countdown 10 seconds and take a screen shot then save that info to a file in a temp folder

not sure how much use this would get but thought it might help people out for creating screenshots... if any interest is shown i will take a crack at it....

[McBainUK]

Why not use VNC, or am I missing the point?

[skippy_nz]

Why not use VNC, or am I missing the point?

i guess if you have VNC and it works then sure - but i try to keep my HTPC as clean as possible - ie i dont install anything unless its going to be used frequently...so this was something that anyone could use without the need for installing extra software.

[Spartan]

What would you use to capture the screen?

[skippy_nz]

What would you use to capture the screen?

ive been scripting using autoit - and it looks like someone has a include that does screenshots...? i have to look further into it but im fairly sure its doable if people think its a good idea.

[Spartan]

ive been scripting using autoit - and it looks like someone has a include that does screenshots...? i have to look further into it but im fairly sure its doable if people think its a good idea.

So autoit has screenshot capabilities? I'll have to take a look.....

[skippy_nz]

So autoit has screenshot capabilities? I'll have to take a look.....

i think that there is a download au3lib that includes this - that was what i was going to look at using.