River Past Screen Recorder 

River Past Screen Recorder is a useful and easy to use application that lets you record your windows Screen to AVI video Files you can later use as tutorials or demonstrations of different activities on your computer.

Features of this application include the ability to record the whole screen, a rectangle region, a defined area around the cursor, or a window. You can choose to show the cursor image or not and you are able to include audio from your microphone, line in, or speakers.

Additionally, you will get to configure advanced settings like video compressor (with options like keyframe, smoothness, data rate, etc.), quality, and audio settings such as compressor, sample rate, channels, and bitrate.

This program has a nice and easy to use graphic interface with the ability to drag and drop to define the window or rectangle to be captured, and hot keys to control recording. If you want to test this software, a free trial is available for download.

System Requirements:

Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows ME, Windows 2000, and Windows XP.

DirectX Version 9.0 and above.

Windows Media Format 9 Runtime