How to make Photoshop square?

I'm working on a project in which I've been asked to make a series of square (yes, square) screenshots of the whole of the Photoshop workspace (showing an image in different stages of development). I have a wide screen display with a screen resolution of 1920x1200 and the publisher has suggested I may need to find a new screen resolution to achieve square, full-workspace covering screenshots. But surely I do not need to change my screen resolution - all I have to do is manually drag the Photoshop window around until its square and then manually screen grab that square window. But - how can I tell when the hand moved Photoshop workspace window is truely square? I can do it by eye but that's too hit and miss.
Thanks for any help on this.
...I'm using FastStone Image Capture.

Thank you very much. I think you have got me to the finishing line. These are what I now have:
Thanks again.

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[IMG]http://i1297.photobucket.com/albums/ag25/dusty951512/IconImage_zpsd788c709.png~original[/IMG]
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[IMG]http://i1297.photobucket.com/albums/ag25/dusty951512/SampleicoPic_zpsd252bfba.png~original[/IMG]
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[IMG]http://i1297.photobucket.com/albums/ag25/dusty951512/NewLibrary_zps8ca703b2.png~original[/IMG]
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