Best software for recording desktop?

[BadMouth]

Finally biting the bullet and switching my driving cab over to Win7.
While I'm reinstalling all the emulators on a fresh windows install,
I thought I'd record the process and hopefully find time to organize it into a series of video tutorials someday.

Anyone have a recommended software for doing this, free or otherwise?

[JDFan]

Camtasia Studios does a pretty good job -- the offer a 30 day trial for free that might be long enough for you to make these with ! ( http://www.techsmith.com/download/camtasia/ )

[Howard_Casto]

I've been recently playing with bandicam to record videos of MKKE.  I didn't play with desktop recording extensively, but if it can record video of a game that takes up 100% resources it should work fine. 

[nullPointer]

I figured I'd add Fraps to this list as well.  You can capture short (watermarked) video clips with the free version, or you can spring for the paid version for a chunk of change ($37 USD).  All things considered, it's a pretty good piece of software and probably worth the purchase if you plan on making fairly frequent recordings.

[Louis Tully]

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[Howard_Casto]

I'm going to have to say that bandicam is better than fraps.  I tried them both and with bandicam I got a smooth framerate while capturing the vids at full resolution.  Fraps slowed the game to a crawl. 

Now for recording the desktop I doubt this would make much difference, but I thought I would mention it. 

You'll also note my problem over in the everything else forum...it turns out that was on youtube's end, so disregard it. 

[bmanbdaman]

Using MSI Afterburner Predator to record video on WIN7 with HIS7790 card. Free. Makes compressed videos. Can scale to many sizes. Did I mention it was free?