FWD: Screen Shots BEFORE OS Loads

[Dave Swenson <Dave_Swenson -at- TRENDMICRO -dot- COM>]

> PC-Anywhere is another (but resolution is not too hot and installation is
> not too convenient).
>
> But in another vein, I would think that any program (or script) that runs
> before Windows starts can also be run after it starts, perhaps in a dos
> shell.
>
> Or, if it is your program, and written in c++, for example, you can just
> get the individual screens from the developers.
>
> Finally, if they are fairly simple screens, I would just create them
> myself using PaintShop Pro -- cut and paste the various screen elements
> (borders, fields, radio buttons, whatever) from existing screens in the
> same family and label the fields as you like the PaintShop Pro text
> editor.
>
>
> David Swenson
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Warren [SMTP:David -dot- Warren -at- NEXTEL -dot- COM]
> Sent: Thursday, June 11, 1998 8:46 AM
> To:   TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject:      Re: FWD: Screen Shots BEFORE OS Loads
>
>      There are remote administration tools for the Mac and PC that present
>      the display from one machine within a window of another (Timbuktu is
>      one of them--sorry, long time since I fooled with 'em.)  Have the
>      screenshot tool capture the contents of the Timbuktu window, and
>      voila!  (Not perhaps the cheapest solution...circa $100, but
> hey--gets
>      the job done.)
>
>      (This is a trivial matter under UNIX, but *that* wasn't your
>      question....)
>
>      Cheers!
>
>      David T. Warren
>      Pubs. Mgr., Nextel
>
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> Subject: FWD: Screen Shots BEFORE OS Loads
> Author:  "Eric J. Ray" <ejray -at- RAYCOMM -dot- COM> at INTERNET
> Date:    6/11/98 6:18 AM
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> Gang,
>
> I'm documenting a process that includes starting the PC and logging into
> the network.  I'd like to include screen shots of the network login
> process, but have not found a way to get the screen shots.  We run Windows
> NT 4, and the network login occurs before NT loads: By the time most
> screen
> shot software can run, the screens  I need have long since vanished.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks.
>
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