PowerToys for XP

[Alan Keatinge]

Can anyone help please?
I have loaded PowerToys for XP, and it has installed it's self in
System 32 folder. The program I am interested to get going is "Image
Resizer", which according to the PowerToy Readme file , says "right
click any image and select Resize Picture in context menu"

Unfortunately I cannot see this anywhere. I am using Windows Picture
and Fax Viewer to view my pictures.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Alan Keatinge

 

[Tom Porterfield]

Can anyone help please?
I have loaded PowerToys for XP, and it has installed it's self in
System 32 folder. The program I am interested to get going is "Image
Resizer", which according to the PowerToy Readme file , says "right
click any image and select Resize Picture in context menu"

Unfortunately I cannot see this anywhere. I am using Windows Picture
and Fax Viewer to view my pictures.

Close the picture and fax viewer. Right click on the icon for the image
in Explorer. You should see a new entry on the right click menu to resize
pictures.
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[Alan Keatinge]

Close the picture and fax viewer. Right click on the icon for the image
in Explorer. You should see a new entry on the right click menu to resize
pictures.

I have done that and there is no entry to resize picture. What I get
is a window with the following:
Open
Test With
Add to Archive
Add to "Name of Photo.rar"
Compress& Email
Compress to "Name of Photo.rar" and Email
Win Zip
Send To
Cut
Copy
Create Shortcut
Delete
Rename
Properties

Alan Keatinge

 

[Jim Macklin]

Open Windows Explorer
Right click to select an image file (start with a jpeg) and
you should see resize image as one of the options.

Try installing the image resizer again and reboot afterward.
Be sure you are using an account with admin rights.


| Can anyone help please?
| I have loaded PowerToys for XP, and it has installed it's
self in
| System 32 folder. The program I am interested to get going
is "Image
| Resizer", which according to the PowerToy Readme file ,
says "right
| click any image and select Resize Picture in context menu"
|
| Unfortunately I cannot see this anywhere. I am using
Windows Picture
| and Fax Viewer to view my pictures.
|
| Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
|
| Alan Keatinge

 

[*Vanguard*]

"Alan Keatinge" said in news:[email protected]:

Can anyone help please?
I have loaded PowerToys for XP, and it has installed it's self in
System 32 folder. The program I am interested to get going is "Image
Resizer", which according to the PowerToy Readme file , says "right
click any image and select Resize Picture in context menu"

Unfortunately I cannot see this anywhere. I am using Windows Picture
and Fax Viewer to view my pictures.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Alan Keatinge

Is it actually installed?

In Explorer, lookup under "C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Installations", is
there a file named "C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Installations\Image Resizer
Powertoy for Windows XP.msi"?

In Add/Remove Programs, is there an entry for "Image Resizer Powertoy
for Windows XP"? When you highlight it, click on the Change button,
Next, and Modify. Is it configured to actually install and run (i.e.,
you don't want the "X" icon and "This feature will not be available").

I doubt it can handle every graphic filetype. One what type of graphics
file are you right-clicking? It works on JPEG, GIF, BMP, WMF, and
probably a lot more of the common graphic formats but it can't handle
everything.

When I search the registry, I found it under:

HKCR\{1530F7EE-5128-43BD-9977-84A4B0FAD7DF}

where the inprocserver was "C:\WINDOWS\System32\phototoys.dll". I then
found this ClassID listed under:


HKCR\SystemFileAssociations\image\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers\PhotoResiz
e

and that's what is probably supposed to appear when you right click on
an image filetype in Explorer. That's as much time as I could spend on
this problem so I didn't bother digging further through the registry.
If you don't have these registry entries, use Add/Remove Programs to
uninstall this powertoy and try reinstalling it.

 

[Alan Keatinge]

Can anyone help please?
I have loaded PowerToys for XP, and it has installed it's self in
System 32 folder. The program I am interested to get going is "Image
Resizer", which according to the PowerToy Readme file , says "right
click any image and select Resize Picture in context menu"

Unfortunately I cannot see this anywhere. I am using Windows Picture
and Fax Viewer to view my pictures.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Alan Keatinge

Thanks to all for your suggestions, but unfortunately it still refuses
to work no matter what I do.

Alan Keatinge

 

[Jim Macklin]

Are you sure you actually downloaded the image resizer?

Download and install it again>
http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe

| On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 08:57:09 +1200, Alan Keatinge
|
| >Can anyone help please?
| >I have loaded PowerToys for XP, and it has installed it's
self in
| >System 32 folder. The program I am interested to get
going is "Image
| >Resizer", which according to the PowerToy Readme file ,
says "right
| >click any image and select Resize Picture in context
menu"
| >
| >Unfortunately I cannot see this anywhere. I am using
Windows Picture
| >and Fax Viewer to view my pictures.
| >
| >Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
| >
| >Alan Keatinge
|
| Thanks to all for your suggestions, but unfortunately it
still refuses
| to work no matter what I do.
|
| Alan Keatinge

 

[*Vanguard*]

"Alan Keatinge" said in news:[email protected]:

Thanks to all for your suggestions, but unfortunately it still refuses
to work no matter what I do.

Alan Keatinge

Similar suggestion here as Alan. Uninstall the tool and reinstall it.
Maybe that will step atop whatever stepped on it.

 

[Alan Keatinge]

Are you sure you actually downloaded the image resizer?

Download and install it again>
http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe

Sorry Jim, but I had already done that, actually more than once. I
have really tried everything and for some unknown reason it just won't
work on my outfit. Every other program seems to be going perfectly.

There is just no entry to resize picture. What I get
is a window with the following:
Open
Test With
Add to Archive
Add to "Name of Photo.rar"
Compress& Email
Compress to "Name of Photo.rar" and Email
Win Zip
Send To
Cut
Copy
Create Shortcut
Delete
Rename
Properties

Alan Keatinge

 

[Jim Macklin]

I'm going to guess that those other photo options have also
taken a default control of image file extensions. You might
be able to look at how they are configured and get the image
resizer to work. Mine works just fine, use it all the
time, it is handy.

I do also have PhotoShop Elements 2 and it has a "save for
web" option that does much the same thing, but the MS
resizer is very much quicker to access when all you want is
to change a 2 MB jpeg at 2000x1700 to 640x480 and 50 kb.


| On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 19:14:50 -0500, "Jim Macklin"
|
| >Are you sure you actually downloaded the image resizer?
| >
| >Download and install it again>
|

http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/W

XP/EN-US/ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe
| >
| Sorry Jim, but I had already done that, actually more than
once. I
| have really tried everything and for some unknown reason
it just won't
| work on my outfit. Every other program seems to be going
perfectly.
|
| There is just no entry to resize picture. What I get
| is a window with the following:
| Open
| Test With
| Add to Archive
| Add to "Name of Photo.rar"
| Compress& Email
| Compress to "Name of Photo.rar" and Email
| Win Zip
| Send To
| Cut
| Copy
| Create Shortcut
| Delete
| Rename
| Properties
|
| Alan Keatinge
|

 

[Alan Keatinge]

I'm going to guess that those other photo options have also
taken a default control of image file extensions. You might
be able to look at how they are configured and get the image
resizer to work. Mine works just fine, use it all the
time, it is handy.

I do also have PhotoShop Elements 2 and it has a "save for
web" option that does much the same thing, but the MS
resizer is very much quicker to access when all you want is
to change a 2 MB jpeg at 2000x1700 to 640x480 and 50 kb.

I have now deleted my graphic editors, and my camera software and
still nothing. I am wondering, even though XP is working perfectly, I
may have inadvertently deleted some file which is preventing PowerToys
working. So is it possible to reload XP over the top of the existing
one?. I really don't know what else to try.

Alan Keatinge

 

[Jim Macklin]

Yes, you can do a repair install of XP. You will need to
download the SP1 (That just made me wonder, do you have SP1
installed, I think that could be your problem).


http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q315341&ID=KB;EN-US;Q315341


| On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 06:35:29 -0500, "Jim Macklin"
|
| >I'm going to guess that those other photo options have
also
| >taken a default control of image file extensions. You
might
| >be able to look at how they are configured and get the
image
| >resizer to work. Mine works just fine, use it all the
| >time, it is handy.
| >
| >I do also have PhotoShop Elements 2 and it has a "save
for
| >web" option that does much the same thing, but the MS
| >resizer is very much quicker to access when all you want
is
| >to change a 2 MB jpeg at 2000x1700 to 640x480 and 50 kb.
| >
| >
| I have now deleted my graphic editors, and my camera
software and
| still nothing. I am wondering, even though XP is working
perfectly, I
| may have inadvertently deleted some file which is
preventing PowerToys
| working. So is it possible to reload XP over the top of
the existing
| one?. I really don't know what else to try.
|
| Alan Keatinge

 

[wojo]

I have now deleted my graphic editors, and my camera software and
still nothing. I am wondering, even though XP is working perfectly, I
may have inadvertently deleted some file which is preventing PowerToys
working. So is it possible to reload XP over the top of the existing
one?. I really don't know what else to try.

Alan Keatinge

I don't know if it's really going to do the trick for you but you could try
a repair install from the XP CD that essentially installs XP over itself
without losing settings, documents, and programs.
You will need to download and install Windows Updates again however.

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[Alan Keatinge]

Yes, you can do a repair install of XP. You will need to
download the SP1 (That just made me wonder, do you have SP1
installed, I think that could be your problem).

I reinstalled XP and now it works perfectly. Thanks very much Jim and
all the other for help and suggestions.

Alan Keatinge

 

[Jim Macklin]

You're welcome. I seem to remember that there are
differences with some of the Power Toys in that they need
SP1 to run...I think there are two versions of TweakUI for
instance.


| On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 19:11:24 -0500, "Jim Macklin"
|
| >Yes, you can do a repair install of XP. You will need to
| >download the SP1 (That just made me wonder, do you have
SP1
| >installed, I think that could be your problem).
|
| I reinstalled XP and now it works perfectly. Thanks very
much Jim and
| all the other for help and suggestions.
|
| Alan Keatinge