I’ve been using Snippy for a while now and it is an excellent little screen capture tool. I got it from ‘somewhere else’ but have found it as a free download here.
You can capture free hand or hold down the shift key to select a square/rectangle shape.
Enjoy.
Just tried it : Site Unavailable…
Works for me. 
lifehacker.com/software/down … 122907.php
That is the link; try a ‘cut-copy-paste’ into your address bar.
marcustandy Thanks for that. The download was being blocked by Bill Gates security. It rests in my tray now ,ready to use…
You can just press “PrtSc” (print screen) on your keyboard and then open up paint and paste and that gives a screen grab. Just incase you never knew.
Mike-C:
You can just press “PrtSc” (print screen) on your keyboard and then open up paint and paste and that gives a screen grab. Just incase you never knew.
I admit to not knowing that for quite a while but I find the normal ‘print screen’ option a bit awkward. The beauty of Snippy is that you can just select the bit you want to capture (free-hand as well).
Alt+PRTSC
Shift +PRTSC
copies screen images to the clipboard for pasting into Word etc