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

Here is my solution for multi-monitor, which is a bit simpler than the current answer. It also will render screens properly if the user has a strange monitor config (stacked vertical, etc) without black bars.

Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms,System.Drawing

$screens = [Windows.Forms.Screen]::AllScreens

$top    = ($screens.Bounds.Top    | Measure-Object -Minimum).Minimum
$left   = ($screens.Bounds.Left   | Measure-Object -Minimum).Minimum
$width  = ($screens.Bounds.Right  | Measure-Object -Maximum).Maximum
$height = ($screens.Bounds.Bottom | Measure-Object -Maximum).Maximum

$bounds   = [Drawing.Rectangle]::FromLTRB($left, $top, $width, $height)
$bmp      = New-Object System.Drawing.Bitmap ([int]$bounds.width), ([int]$bounds.height)
$graphics = [Drawing.Graphics]::FromImage($bmp)

$graphics.CopyFromScreen($bounds.Location, [Drawing.Point]::Empty, $bounds.size)

$bmp.Save("$env:USERPROFILE\test.png")

$graphics.Dispose()
$bmp.Dispose()