Taking screenshots of an application, an error message, or a settings section is very important for any user, because depending on the case, that extra information can help solve a problem or understand what is happening in a system. However, there are also users who work with personal data and other delicate elements that could leak with just one screenshot. That is the mission of ScreenWings: to prevent screenshot programs from working correctly.
Print Screen must be one of the most useful, and at the same time most ignored, functions of modern computers. Long gone is its original role of dumping to paper what was seen on the monitor, and now all it does is create a copy in bitmap format on the clipboard, so we can edit it with our favorite tool.
Taking screenshots is something we do several times a day here at NeoTeo, even when the application or service in question doesn't have much to show (after all, there's nothing attractive about a command line, for example). That also implies leaking email addresses or any other element that shouldn't be shared with the Web lightly, but some users need to go further, and block screenshots completely.
How to Block Screenshots?
That's when ScreenWings steps in. The program is portable and quite lightweight, a little over four megabytes on the hard drive. When its small interface displays the Windows logo, screenshot works just like always, but once we click on it and the logo disappears, everything we get at the moment of capture is a black image with the dimensions of the desktop.
The Windows snipping tool, the Print Screen key, SnagIt, and even FastStone Capture surrendered at the feet of ScreenWings. Another thing to note is that it supports a maximum of six monitors connected.
The license of ScreenWings is freeware, but nothing prevents making multiple copies, and keeping one on a USB drive to carry anywhere. The utility of ScreenWings is also very great in public terminals. The possibility of a keylogger with screenshot support in the background cannot be taken lightly, and in case of emergencies, ScreenWings could emerge as an extra layer of protection.
