Steps Recorder

The Steps Recorder records a movie of your entire computer screen (or screens, if you have more than one monitor) while you perform some task. It saves the recording of what happened on the screen so that you or anyone else can later play it back. The finished product isn’t very elegant, but it can be useful if you want to create a tutorial of how to perform a computer task or to document a software bug. What it creates is a slideshow of the steps you take while you’re recording: every mouse click, keyboard entry, and window movement is recorded.

To create a recoding, start the Steps Recorder and then click Start Record. Perform the task you want to document. You can use the following tools:

• Click Pause Record if you have to ...

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