So here's how you create a preview picture of a video.
1. If you already have Irfanview with all the plugins, skip to point 6
2. Download the FREE Irfanview here:
http://www.irfanview.com/main_download_engl.htm
3. Download all the plugins for it here:
http://www.irfanview.com/plugins.htm
4. Install Irfanview
5. Close it and install all the plugins (double click on the downloaded file)
6. Open Irfanview
7. From the File -> Open menu, open the video (remember to select "All files (*.*) on the File Type list)

8. When you want to create a picture, stop the video
9. Click with right button of the mouse on the video image and select "Copy"

10. Select Edit - Paste
11. Select File - Save As, choose "JPG - JPEG files" from the file type list and give a name to that file.
That's all!