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Did you ever wonder how to take screen shots of videos with out using any 3rd party software? Then this is for you

1. Open your Window Media Player and click Options on the Tools menu.
2. On the Performance tab, click on the Advanced… button.
3. Uncheck Use overlays , click OK and restart the player.

Now you can capture images from any movies played in Windows Media Player using Print Screen (PrintScrn) key (or ALT + PrintScrn key). Once copied, the image can be pasted into Microsoft Paint (Start > All Programs > Accessories > Paint) or other image editor. If you have problems taking screenshots from a playing movie try to pause it first, then “print” the image.

Note: Disabling overlays will result in poor playback performance on some machines. Not a good long term solution so better enable overlays after taking screen shots