The auto-scroll tools automatically scrolls material vertically and/or horizontally. It's great for capturing web pages larger than your screen, scrolling lists and other scrolling areas.
Instructions
1 On the capture bar, click Area ( 
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2 Select the scrolling area (the area does not need to be exact - anything approximate will work.)
3 On the output toolbar, click Scroll ( 
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Tweak the selection area
The exact area you select before scrolling is important - it tells CaptureWiz what area to scroll and what area to capture.
Web pages
Internet Explorer provides several moderately reliable methods for capturing whole web pages. For example, click Page / SaveAs, then select the Web Archive (MHT) format. It saves everything to your hard drive - complete with pictures, clickable links, and selectable text.
Lists on web pages
To capture small scrolling areas within web pages, like lists, click on the area to give it the "focus" before starting the capture.
Animation on web pages
Animation interferes with scroll capture. Often, you can turn them off by clicking the browser's Stop button.
Mouse pointer location
Keep the mouse pointer off the scrolling area while it's scrolling to prevent tool tip popups.
Firefox
The Firefox browser has poor scroll support. Instead, open pages you want to scroll in Internet Explore, there are one-click "extensions" for this. Also, please join us in letting Firefox developers know how much we would like it to support standard Windows scroll messages. You may reference our bug report # 315727 at bugzilla.mozilla.org
Special folders in Windows XP
Folders like My Music, where MP3s are typically stored, have an annoying non-scrolling background graphic that interferes with scroll capture. To turn off the graphic:
1 In Windows Explorer, click Tools / Folder Options.
2 Click the General tab.
3 Click Use Windows classic folders.
Go slower
If the capture isn't exactly what you expect, give the target program more drawing time.
1 On the capture bar menu, click Settings / Options.
2 Click the Scroll tab.
3 Increase Wait for target repaint.
Capturing setup software or other programs running with full-administrator rights
On the capture bar, click Capture / Full Power to run CaptureWiz with full-rights. Starting with Windows Vista, full-rights are needed to capture high-level applications such as startup and system configuration programs.
Scroll bar or frame appears in capture
If a scroll bar or frame is interfering with the capture, crop it out. Or, if the target image has been zoomed in (magnified), set the cropping all around equal to the magnification (because magnified images jump around a bit as they’re scrolled) .
1 On the capture bar menu, click Settings / Options.
2 Click the Scroll tab.
3 Specify Auto scroll cropping.
Don't use Aero Glass
The Aero Glass interface is slow. For better scroll capture, we recommend using any other interface.
Windows7
1 On the Windows taskbar, click Start / Control Panel.
2 Under Appearance and Personalization, click Change the theme.
3 Scroll down to Basic and High Contrast Themes.
4 Select Windows 7 Basic, or Windows Classic.
Vista
1 On the Windows taskbar, click Start / Control Panel.
2 On the control panel, click Appearance and Personalization.
3 Under Personalization, click Customize colors.
4 Under Window Color and Appearance, click Open classic appearance properties for more color options
5 For Color scheme, select Basic, Standard or Classic.
Reasonable expectations
While this tool is quite robust, there are still some things it can't capture: infinitely large pages like spreadsheets, text that scrolls over a non-scrolling background, pages that are almost totally blank, pages that are heavily animated and applications that recalculate a new image for each step like AutoCAD.
Error messages
Every computer has limits and long scroll captures can exceed them. If, while scrolling, you experience an error or the program hangs, consider adding memory, a larger hard drive, or a newer operating system.