You remember the Powertoy “Image Resizer?” Well it was a very handy tool to have because it could resize a large batch of images. I used it so much when I had Windows XP and that Powertoy was only for Windows XP and when Vista rolled out, Microsoft didn’t update the code on that application so it wouldn’t run on Vista. I thought that was just awful and I couldn’t find a decent Powertoy like that at the time Vista came out. There were other tools sort of like that but you had to buy them and they had ton of ads on them. A few weeks ago I came across the Image Resizer Powertoy Clone for Windows Vista. It’s a life saver!
You can grab the Powertoy here
To use it, all you have to do is highlight the images you want to resize, right-click, and select Resize Pictures. You will then receive a dialogue window prompting you to choose a size from the most common, or you can click Advanced for more control.
It will not overwrite the images. Instead, it will rename the copy to have the image size after the original file name, how ever you can overwrite the file you want to do. If you do something wrong there is no way in recovering the image. So make sure you backed it up and or know what you are doing first.
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Thank You, Thank You, Thank You! I have missed this so much since moving to Vista but doing a search and taking the time to READ what people had to say about the download (not all downloads on all browsers are the same, lol) I found yours! Just what I needed!
The powertoy installs in Win7 but it does not show up on the right click menu. Do you know how to make this work in win7.
thanks,
Gary
@Gary
That is really strange because it should work on Windows 7 because Windows 7 and Vista is the architecture, Just 7 has a face lift and lost some weight.
I’m not sure why it wont work correctly, but you can check out this http://www.codeplex.com/PhotoToysClone because it appears that it works on Windows 7.
I hope I helped.
I needed to d/l the 64 bit version… Everything is now ok. Thanks, Gary
@Gary I should of knowing that! My Bad! But i’m glad you got the right one. If you coulden’t get it to work I was going to suggest a different one called VSO Image Re sizer. It is free but it will keep asking saying it’s free and this message will go away when you get the commercial one, I hate that but I’m use to it and it works wonderful. It doesn’t mess up the quality as the image shrinks.
It says my Windows Installer won’t let it install. What to do??
OOps….I mean it says System Administrator has set policies that won’t let me install.
I don’t know what to do…thanks.
Do you have your account set as Administrator or Limit User?
It’s set as Administrator password protected. All Greek to me.
Since it’s a .MSI, you should be able to right click and “run as administrator”
Try that. Also do you have UAC on?