Another cool feature of Windows Vista is that it has a built in screenshot tool that you can easily make use of to capture screenshots. Follow these steps to enable and make use of Windows Vista’s Snipping Tool,

Step-1:

Click on the “Start” button and then click on the “Control Panel”.

Step-2:

Click on the “Turn Windows features on or off” option under “Programs and Features” section.

Step-3:

Click thru the UAC prompt and on the “Windows Features” dialog scroll down to locate the “Tablet PC Optional Components” option and make sure to have a check mark in front. Click the “OK” button to dismiss the dialog.

Step-4:

Click on the “Start” button and type-in “Snipping” on the Search box. Windows Vista will display “Snipping Tool” at the top of the Programs list. Click on the “Snipping Tool”.

Step-5:

Vista might ask you if you’d like to add Snipping Tool to the Quick Launch Bar for easy access. Choose the option you prefer.

Step-6:

Vista will gray out the screen and will ask you to select the area of screen that you want to capture as a screenshot. Just choose the area of the screen that you’d like to capture and Vista will make a screenshot of that area and will have it copied to the Snipping Tool application.

Once the screenshot is in the Snipping Tool you can use the toolbar buttons to handwrite text on the screenshot, highlight a portion of the screenshot etc.

I hope you make use of this built-in Windows Vista feature to take screenshots easily. If you have any questions regarding this please make sure to ask in comments.