Taking a Screenshot With Windows XP

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Freevlog has a great video tutorial for doing Windows Screenshots

If you just get a blank color where the video should be, check out this article (quickonlinetips.com)

In fact, you can also extract image frames from a video file using the freeware image browser software xnview, or the popular video player Media Player Classic.

Extract a video frame with xnview http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?t=12784

Extract a video frame with Media Player Classic Press Ctrl+I or select menu "File > Save Image".

ImageGrabber II is a free tool that can grab screenshots from any video file (avi, mpg, dat, asf, wmv, qt, mov, rm, rmvb, vob)and save the screenshot as customized thumbnails to a single file or multiple files.

VideoLAN opensource video playing program has a "snapshot" option in the menu, that will save whatever frame is on-screen.

Video frame capture is well supported in KMPlayer.