Parabens Screen Capture connects periodically to the Internet…What info does it send?
Paraben’s Screen Capture does not send any information from the user’s machine to the Internet. It only reads a text file from Paraben’s web site, by default once every 7 days, to tell you if there is a new version of this program. You can change the frequency or disable this check under “Help/Check for a New Version” menu. I get a “Failed to create empty document” error when starting Paraben’s Screen Capture This error may happen if you have an old version of Windows and never installed Internet Explorer 4 or later. Your system may have an old version of Microsoft “Common Controls” DLL (comctl32.dll). You can update this DLL, without installing the latest IE – please download the following Microsoft updater: http://www.paraben.com/programs/50comupd.exe then run it to install updated DLL, reboot your machine if/when prompted. My screen capture graphics files are of bad quality (extra dots, “gray cast” etc.) Most probably you are saving your images in JPEG format (.jpg). JPEG is a “loss
