Old Windows batch script/cron job to save screenshots of your working state.
It works, but it's not pretty! I made this a long time ago, around 2008.
- Edit the directory specified in
START.batto save images where you prefer - Run
START.bat
It'll start an invisible command prompt running screenshot.bat which, by default, saves a 20% quality JPEG image of your main monitor every 3 minutes (using a shady JAR file I created a long time ago and have since lost the source to... UGH). Each time screenshot.bat is started from scratch it will save all images in the current directory into a backup directory.
If a new screenshot is nearly identical to the last one (as determined by file size: +/- 5 bytes), the identical screenshot will be thrown out and ignored.
Why would anyone want this?
Well, sometimes it's nice to have backups. Especially if your computer crashes, as Windows has a habit of doing.
- How were my desktop icons arranged last Tuesday?
- What was that site I was just on?
- Where did that giant paragraph of text go in the form I was just filling out?
It's been a life-saver more than once. That's why I don't use Windows anymore.
I wrote screen.bat myself, generated the screenshot-taking JAR myself (probably with a lot of help from Stack Overflow), and got invis.vbs from here.