Record computer screen in Windows 10 for Free

Are you looking for a scree recorder to record your computer screen, record games, record presentations on Windows computer? Do you want to create video tutorials, product demos? There are many different screen recorder tools you can use in video tutorial creating, such as Camtasia, ScreenFlow, VLC media player, etc.

Many of these tools however are not free or difficult to use. Today, we will introduce a powerful yet free screen recorder for Windows which can help us easily record desktop on PC.

About the free screen recorder

Record anything on your PC screen, apps, windows, areas or whole screen. It can not only record sound from microphone, but also internal sound from your computer, such as online music, internet radio. You can even set frame rate and bit rate to create high quality videos or degrade video quality to reduce output video file size. 

Record computer screen in Windows for Free

Run Format Factory on your computer. Click to open the Video tab. Scroll to find and then click to open Screen Record in a new window.

format factory screen recorder for windows
format factory screen recorder for windows

Then follow these steps to record desktop screen.

Step 1. Select region or window to record

Click the Selection icon to expand the drop-down menu, then choose Region screen, Window, or Full screen. Bring anything you want to record to front on your computer screen. Select the window, app or any area on your desktop to record.

Step 2. Record webcam

If you want your viewers to see your face as well, click the Camera icon to open the webcam on your computer screen.

Step 3. Select audio to record

To record your voice, click to check ‘Use microphone’, to record internal audio from the Windows system, check ‘Use capture sound’. If you enable both internal and external sound recording by selecting both of them.

Step 4. Start, Pause and Stop recording

Click the big red Record button from the control bar to start recording. When finished, click the Stop button, the recorded video will be saved to the output folder of the screen recorder program. If need, you can hit the Pause button to pause the recording, then hit the Record button again to resume recording.

Click Output folder button to open the recorded screen video in file explorer. You can play the video using your favorite media player. If like, you can import it to Format Factory to edit it before you send or share it with others.

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