Picture Resizer Power Tool

[QSmith]

I have been using the Picture Resizer powertool for over a year and it has
worked great. All of a sudden it has quit working. I have uninstalled and
reinstalled it several times with a new copy of the program downloaded from
Microsoft. The program menu shows up when I right click a picture and it
appears to work when you click OK but nothing happens. I have searched the
hard drive to see if it is putting the new picture in another directory but
it is not. It is simply not creating the new, resized picture. I would
appreciate any advice/help that anyone can offer.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

QSmith,

See if this command fixes the problem. From Start, Run:

regsvr32 shimgvw.dll

 

[Peter]

Sorry to butt in...this got me to check mine...it doesn't work either, even
with that cmd fix.

 

[Peter]

I discovered by accident..if you right-click an image and select "Preview"
you can then resize that image.

 

[QSmith]

Thanks! It fixed the problem. What does the cmd do?

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

You're welcome. That command-line sets the "image" type flag for image
files. Plus, fixes many other related issues.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Peter,

Tried registering the phototoys.dll? And, do you see the dialog box when you
click the "Resize..." context menu/

 

[Peter]

It's exactly like the above post, nothing appears. It does work, however if
I click "Preview" first and THEN try resize (on the preview image).
How do you register a dll?

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

How do you register a dll?

regsvr32 phototoys.dll
regsvr32 shimgvw.dll

 

[Peter]

Thanks.. I should have realised that... I did it, but I still have to go
to the preview to get the menu. I wonder if recent Microsoft Updates has
caused this? I'm up to date so have no idea which one, if it is that.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Peter,

Apart from file association settings, I don't know what's causing this. BTW,
which filetype is causing this, and is WPFV the default handler for that
type?

 

[Peter]

I only have jpeg and gif stored and Microsoft Photo Editor is the default
here.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

See if resetting the default handler to WPFV helps.

- Open Control Panel, Folder Options applet
- Click the File Types tab
- Scroll down and select the file type from the list.
- Click the Restore button at the bottom

 

[Peter]

Did that for jpe, jpg jpeg and gif.... still the same situation.

Weird!

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Yes, it's weird! Will see if there are any other causes for this problem.

 

[Peter]

I appreciate your help Ramesh. It's not too inconvenient I suppose to go
the preview route, but I was just lucky discovering that. It worked
directly from any image in my pics folder when I first downloaded it.

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi Peter,

FWIW, I have WinXP Pro SP2 with all update and Resize Pictures appears
in the right click context menu.

 

[Peter]

Well, I'm not sure why it isn't working here. Maybe Ramesh will have a
brainwave. Thanks.

 

[Bert Kinney]

A long shot but, are there and 3ed party utilities installed to make
context menu changes?

 

[Peter]

Well I doubt it, because I don't know what you mean by that. Give me an
example.