Screen recording without third-party software on Windows 7?

"The closest thing I can think of is Problem Steps Recorder.

You can access it by clicking the Start button and typing ""psr.exe"" and hitting enter.

This tool will record each mouse-click and save it as an image, then compile everything into HTML (more specifically, a Microsoft MHT file). However this is not a video capture tool. As far as I know, there isn't one built-in to Windows.

You may look into downloading the free VLC player. With VLC, you can use your desktop as a capture device:

Click Media
Click Open Capture Device
Choose Capture Mode: Desktop (at this point, you may want to set a higher FPS)

..and then stream it to a file:

Click the arrow icon to the right of play, and click ""Stream""
Leave the default ""Source: screen://"" and click ""Next""
Select ""File"" in the dropdown and click ""Add""
Choose a filename then click ""Next""
Choose your encoding and then click ""Next""
Click ""Stream""

Hope this helps."

"You can use ""Screenrecorder"" which is a utility from Microsoft, based on Windows Media Encoder.

It's not included by default in Windows, but can be downloaded from this Microsoft Technet page."