CamStudio
Free Streaming Video Desktop Recording Software
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)
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"Quality videos" by jorgeletralia on July 12, 2008 - CNET
The videos have excellent quality. I've testing some free software, and this is the best.
"Works perfectly and records great No
problems found so far" by adkiller2k7 on April 22, 2008 - CNET
Records high quality videos, has AutoPanning to make it record a box following the mouse, The site that offers this program also offers CamStudio Codec to decrease file size and gives quality videos, CamStudio is very customizable, its all free!!!
"Just what I needed and absolutely free" by ComputerJy on September 28, 2007 - CNET
It records AVIs and allows the conversion to swf.
It's so customizable that you can even pick an image to display instead of your cursor. Very easy to use