Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP
PowerToys add fun and functionality to the Windows experience. What are they? PowerToys are additional programs that developers work on after a product has been released.
Note: We take great care to ensure that PowerToys work as they should, but they are not part of Windows and are not supported by Microsoft. For this reason, Microsoft Technical Support is unable to answer questions about PowerToys. PowerToys are for Windows XP only and will not work with Windows Vista
FEATURES
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Important:
• If you installed PowerToys prior to April 23, 2002, you must
uninstall your old PowerToys
before installing the versions available here.
• PowerToys only work with U.S. English regional settings.
Current PowerToy options:
Color Control Panel Applet
Professional-level photographers and designers know that getting
consistent, accurate color
from file to screen to print and beyond is a requirement for great
results. This new tool
helps you manage Windows color settings in one place.
Download
SyncToy
With new sources of files coming from every direction (such as
digital cameras, e-mail, cell
phones, portable media players, camcorders, PDAs, and laptops),
SyncToy can help you copy,
move, and synchronize different directories.
Download
RAW Image Thumbnail and Viewer
Are you a serious photographer? Now you can organize and work with
digital RAW files in
Windows Explorer (much as you can with JPEG images). This tool
provides thumbnails,
previews, printing, and metadata display for RAW images.
Download
ClearType Tuner
This PowerToy lets you use ClearType technology to make it easier to
read text on your
screen, and installs in the Control Panel for easy access.
Download
HTML Slide Show Wizard
This wizard helps you create an HTML slide show of your digital
pictures, ready to place on
your Web site. Download
Open Command Window Here
This PowerToy adds an "Open Command Window Here" context menu option
on file system folders,
giving you a quick way to open a command window (cmd.exe) pointing
at the selected folder.
Download
Alt-Tab Replacement
With this PowerToy, in addition to seeing the icon of the
application window you are
switching to, you will also see a preview of the page. This helps
particularly when multiple
sessions of an application are open.
Download
Tweak UI
This PowerToy gives you access to system settings that are not
exposed in the Windows XP
default user interface, including mouse settings, Explorer settings,
taskbar settings, and
more. Download
Version 2.10 requires Windows XP Service Pack 1 or Windows Server
2003.
Power Calculator
With this PowerToy you can graph and evaluate functions as well as
perform many different
types of conversions.
Download
Image Resizer
This PowerToy enables you to resize one or many image files with a
right-click.
Download
CD Slide Show Generator
With this PowerToy you can view images burned to a CD as a slide
show. The Generator works
downlevel on Windows 9x machines as well.
Download
Virtual Desktop Manager
Manage up to four desktops from the Windows taskbar with this
PowerToy. Download
Taskbar Magnifier
Use this PowerToy to magnify part of the screen from the taskbar.
Download
Webcam Timershot
This PowerToy lets you take pictures at specified time intervals
from a Webcam connected to
your computer and save them to a location that you designate.
Download