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.