User Reviews

  Now it is excellent  

• Interface: 4
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

In v1.1 there was a serious bug and the program almost always crashed on my PC. Now, with the latest version, this application works like a charm. Easy of use and incredible small files are produced. Absolutely great tool if you must explain to someone how to done some computer task. Many thanks to the author of this great free program.

  I can capture screen, it's so easy  

• Interface: 4
• Features: 3
• Ease of use: 4
• Value: 5
• Overall:

Very Good, so easy to capture and record screens. You need to be local admin to run under Win Vista.

  Very good freeware  

• Interface: 4
• Features: 4
• Ease of use: 4
• Value: 5
• Overall:

It is very simple and easy to use recording software.

  Very good, but other outputs would help.  

• Interface: 4
• Features: 4
• Ease of use: 4
• Value: 4
• Overall:

This works ok, and is a surprisingly small download (416KB). It is easy to use, but the standalone .exe format is rather limiting. It would be better to have .avi or Flash output if possible. Another point to note is that most e-mail providers nowadays ban the sending and receiving of .exe files, so the file would need to be zipped before sending it. Anyone receiving a zipped .exe file in their e-mail inbox might be too suspicious to open it, so other formats for the videos would be useful.

  Response by software author  

Why Not AVI? If you are looking for a free screen recorder which supports AVI, SCREEN2EXE is not your choice. But if you are looking for a free screen recorder which can compress screen video more, SCREEN2EXE is the only choice of you. An AVI file need right codec to play, to achieve compatibility, most AVI outputting screen recorders must use codec which system installed in default. But, those system codec are designed for general videos not for screens. When use it to compress screen video, the output file is very huge! For example, a 1024 by 768, 1 minutes screen video could cost over 10M bytes. Compare to that SSCV2, used in SCREEN2EXE, output only 0.1M-2M bytes.The same thing happens to SWF and other general formats. So, in sum, you can only choose one between small file, EXE format and big file, AVI format.