Windows 7 & after has a screen-capturing tool called the Snipping Tool. Its icon looks like this:-

You should be able to find it among your Window applications & tools on the start menu. I have mine permanently stuck to my task-bar for convenience. If you open the tool, click on 'New' & it will allow you to position the cross-shaped cursor anywhere on the screen & then draw around any rectangular object.

It's a little like the screen-capture function but much more versatile & with limited drawing & erasing features. The best thing is to play around with it until you get the hang of it - it's quite good fun

When you've drawn around the section of the screen that you want to capture, click on 'File' in the pane & select 'Save As..' Then save on your device for use later. When you want to insert the image in a post, position the text cursor (in the post-editor pane) where you want the image to go & click on the 'insert image' button. Then browse to the folder where the image is located & you should know the rest..

It takes a bit of practice to get it right but it's an easy way of capturing the image of a diagram.

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