There is CamStudio, which has been around for a while and probably will not be going anywhere:

CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)

You can capture full screen, specific areas, or specific windows. It also has a rather useful option of visualizing mouse clicks, if you're recording instructional videos. You can add annotations, and record audio along with it if you'd like:

There is also ScreenToGif which records to animated GIFs. I used it to make the above just now.

Both are free (and ad free). I've been using CamStudio for years and ScreenToGif for about 3 months, also on Windows 7. CamStudio works well for very long recordings. ScreenToGif is better for quickies.

There is CamStudio, which has been around for a while and probably will not be going anywhere:

CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)

You can capture full screen, specific areas, or specific windows. It also has a rather useful option of visualizing mouse clicks, if you're recording instructional videos. You can add annotations, and record audio along with it if you'd like:

There is also ScreenToGif which records to animated GIFs. I used it to make the above just now.

Both are free (and ad free). I've been using CamStudio for years and ScreenToGif for about 3 months, also on Windows 7. CamStudio works well for very long recordings. ScreenToGif is better for quickies.

There is CamStudio, which has been around for a while and probably will not be going anywhere:

CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)

You can capture full screen, specific areas, or specific windows. It also has a rather useful option of visualizing mouse clicks, if you're recording instructional videos. You can add annotations, and record audio along with it if you'd like.

There is also ScreenToGif which records to animated GIFs.

Both are free (and ad free). I've been using CamStudio for years and ScreenToGif for about 3 months, also on Windows 7. CamStudio works well for very long recordings. ScreenToGif is better for quickies.

There is CamStudio, which has been around for a while and probably will not be going anywhere:

CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)

You can capture full screen, specific areas, or specific windows. It also has a rather useful option of visualizing mouse clicks, if you're recording instructional videos. You can add annotations, and record audio along with it if you'd like:

There is also ScreenToGif which records to animated GIFs. I used it to make the above just now.

Both are free (and ad free). I've been using CamStudio for years and ScreenToGif for about 3 months, also on Windows 7. CamStudio works well for very long recordings. ScreenToGif is better for quickies.