aiuku wrote in icon_tutorial wise

still screencaps in PowerDVD 4.0

First I would like to say I am a beginning icon-maker, and this community and its memories have helped me more than I could say. So I would like to say a huge, love-filled thank you to everyone here--and post a tip of my own.

After having a hellish time trying to make screencaptures in every program out there (Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, BSPlayer, you name it), I finally found the answer.
For PowerDVD 4.0, what you need to do screencaps is this:
Open your computer's Control Panel, then open Display. Click on the Settings tab, and then the button that says Advanced, then go to Troubleshoot. There's a slider there that says Hardware acceleration; turn this all the way to none.
And that, my friends, is how to capture screens. But after you're done using the program, you need to turn the acceleration back up, to make all other programs work at their best.