recording desktop screen - free alternative to Camtasia

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I have been using Camtasia Studio (ca. $400) for years to show other staff I work with - how I do stuff, it records your screen and voice, so u can use it to make teaching videos.

Recently I had a need to do a short quick demo, so the person I needed to help could "see" what I was saying as my words were not getting accross.

I found a free open source windows live screen capture software, and on first attempt it was very easy and produced exactly what I wanted, and it is a very small dowload (>2mb) for those of you in places with less than hi speed internet..

Link and info

CamStudio - Free Screen Recording Software
Records screen activity from the Windows desktop into standard AVI movie files. It is an ideal tool for creating software demonstrations and active ...
camstudio.org/ - 23k

CamStudio: CamStudio20.exe
http://www.camstudio.org/CamStudio20.exe
Lossless codec (install this after you install Camstudio)
http://camstudio.org/CamStudioCodec14.exe

I hope you find this as useful as I do...

cheers!