How can I do a screen capture in Windows PowerShell?

Question

How can I capture the screen in Windows PowerShell? I need to be able to save the screen to disk.

Answer 1

Microsoft have a Powershell script available here:

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/eeff544a-f690-4f6b-a586-11eea6fc5eb8

I have just tried it on a Windows 7 machine and it to work, using the commandline example provided:

Take-ScreenShot -screen -file "C:\image.png" -imagetype png