Can't Figure Out How to Record Windows

scottalanmiller

@dustinb3403 said in Can't Figure Out How to Record Windows:

Three prove to me, from a local machine you can record a UAC prompt from the same machine it is generated on. I've attempted this numerous times with different software and haven't ever had it work.

Okay, but you are confusing "you didn't get it to work" with "it can't be done." Those aren't at all the same thing.

And WHY would you try to record it locally when it is SO trivially easy to grab it some other way and record it. The goal here was not a challenge on how to record a video in one really specific way, the purpose was to make a video that showed something. If the way you were doing it you felt coudln't do the job, why did you avoid doing it a way that was trivially easy and worked?

JaredBusch

If the recording tool is running with elevated rights, it most certainly can see the UAC, unless it was horribly written.

scottalanmiller

@jaredbusch said in Can't Figure Out How to Record Windows:

If the recording tool is running with elevated rights, it most certainly can see the UAC, unless it was horribly written.

And some can record without elevated rights, too. I just did that on the first try as well. Default tools might not do it, but ones in Chocolatey did. And as I wanted a GIF as putput, it "just worked".

There is a Windows setting to not make UAC unrecordable. You can just disable it.

scottalanmiller

As much as this is an annoying topic in some ways, I've never done screen recording before so looking for cool and simple ways to do it, and tools to make it easy is interesting. Peek is an awesome tool. And screentogif isn't bad. I have tools ready to make easy screen vids now. I should have taken a moment to look into this before, it just rarely comes up.

scottalanmiller

Here is a screentogif sample run locally on the Windows 10 box. Not as nice or fast as Peek, but very similar. harder to grab the outside edge of the desktop, but does the trick.

scottalanmiller

See how it can't quite grab the Start bar? There is likely a way around that, but I'd have to keep messing with it. But it gets most of the screen pretty well and compresses the GIF down really well.

stacksofplates

@dustinb3403 said in Can't Figure Out How to Record Windows:

@scottalanmiller said in Can't Figure Out How to Record Windows:

@dustinb3403 said in Can't Figure Out How to Record Windows:

Two don't create or fork topics when you aren't asked too.

It’s to not too.

Obsolesce

@scottalanmiller No, we need a live video feed from behind you at the computer so we can see the physical screen and what you're doing!

scottalanmiller

@tim_g said in Can't Figure Out How to Record Windows:

@scottalanmiller No, we need a live video feed from behind you at the computer so we can see the physical screen and what you're doing!

SAMTV, all SAM, all the time.

JaredBusch

@scottalanmiller said in Can't Figure Out How to Record Windows:

@tim_g said in Can't Figure Out How to Record Windows:

@scottalanmiller No, we need a live video feed from behind you at the computer so we can see the physical screen and what you're doing!

SAMTV, all SAM, all the time.

Just no.