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Lets say I want to pause my explorer to freeze what I am seeing on my screen, is this possible?

I want to pause a flash amination on a website I am viewing, it goes too fast, and pausing the explorer seems like the only way to slow it, thankyou to anyone who can think of some suggestions...

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Useful, practical ways to freeze a fast Flash animation (short, reliable options). ’s Print Screen suggestion is valid but there are faster and less fiddly approaches worth trying.

For an immediate single-frame capture: press Alt+PrintScreen to copy the active browser window, then paste into an image editor (Paint, GIMP) and save. For several frames in quick succession, run a lightweight screen recorder and export frames; this is faster than repeatedly opening Paint.

To actually freeze the running browser/plug-in: use Process Explorer (Sysinternals). Start Process Explorer, locate the browser process (for IE look for iexplore.exe), right-click and choose Suspend, take the screenshot or inspect the frozen view, then right-click and Resume when finished. Caveat: suspending will freeze the whole process (tabs, downloads, form data) — save anything important first.

To get controllable playback or repeatable access to the animation, try to download the SWF itself. View the page source and search for “.swf”, paste that URL into the address bar and Save As. Open the saved file locally or with a standalone Flash projector; if the movie has no built-in pause controls, running it locally makes it easier to capture. If the SWF is hard to find, browser extensions that block Flash (so it only plays on click) let the movie be started and stopped manually — switching to a browser with such an add-on is often the simplest long-term fix.

Given the time pressure mentioned by : fastest = Alt+PrintScreen; most reliable for interactive pausing = suspend the process with Process Explorer; best for repeated viewing = download the SWF or use a Flash-blocker extension. Avoid kernel debuggers like the one mentioned — they’re overkill for this need.

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hmn, if you are quick enough, you could hit the print screen key on the keyboard (next to the f12 key). Then you click start, run... type in: mspaint, then click edit paste...... but that's kinda tedius. I'll keep looking around for a better solution (I know that you could install and use a kernel or driver debugger, like SoftIce, but I don't remember if you can still paruse the screen or not with it, and plus it's a lot of hassle) If I find a better solution, I'll post.

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hmn, if you are quick enough, you could hit the print screen key on the keyboard (next to the f12 key). Then you click start, run... type in: mspaint, then click edit paste...... but that's kinda tedius. I'll keep looking around for a better solution (I know that you could install and use a kernel or driver debugger, like SoftIce, but I don't remember if you can still paruse the screen or not with it, and plus it's a lot of hassle) If I find a better solution, I'll post.

thankyou for the help :), I've tried looking everywhere but still nothing:/

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bump... today is the last day the flash amination will be availible, so, again if anyone has any ideas at all, please let me know tonight :'(

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what's the URL?

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pm'd 2hours remain :'(

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