Desktop Hunter1.0

Desktop Hunter is a simple application which can be used in order to take various types of pictures of your desktop and save them to a file.

Quick setup and clean interface

The installation process does not last too long and it does not bring any kind of surprises, yet if you are interested in bypassing it, you should know that there is also a portable version you can take advantage of, called Portable Desktop Hunter.The GUI you come face to face with presents a pretty simple design, as it only contains a few buttons and a pane in which to preview the resulted image. Moreover, you can place it in the system tray with just a click of the button and thus rendering it non-obtrusive.

Configure a few options and save images to the HDD

This program enables you to capture a selected window, the entire desktop and a custom region of it. The resulted picture can be saved to a user-defined location, with a BMP, PNG, GIF or JPG file extension.In addition to that, you should know that each type of snapshot has a keyboard shortcut assigned, yet you can change it from the settings panel. The JPG quality, PNG and GIF compression level and BMP format (1-bit, 8-bit, 24-bit, 32-bit etc.) can all be modified, while you can also select an output folder and set up this utility to always launch at Windows startup.

Bottom line

In conclusion, Desktop Hunter proves to be a pretty efficient piece of software when it comes to capturing items on the screen. All jobs are completed in due time, the CPU and memory usage is minimal and the interface is user-friendly. Nonetheless, it lacks multiple options that other similar products enclose.