XP Power Toys & Vista

C

CaptainToy

I am getting ready to run Vista Business upgrade on existing XP SP2 Prof
machine that has the following 6 XP Power toys installed on it.

MS Vista Upgrade advisor says about all 6, "This program might have minor
compatibility issues after upgrading to Windows Vista." Upgrade advisor
does not tell me I need to uninstall them before running the upgrade?

Power Toys 1 through 3 are the only ones I use frequently and will miss if I
must uninstall all 6 before running Vista Upgrade. It is possible that
Vista includes the capabilites these 3 tools provide? Expecially the auto
logon to windows in TweakUI.

Does anyone know if XP Power Toys 1, 2, & 3 below function in Vista?
1 TweakUI
2 Image resizer
3 Command Here
4 Slide Show Generator
5 HTML slide show wizard
6 Alt Tab task switcher

DJB
 
R

Rock

CaptainToy said:
I am getting ready to run Vista Business upgrade on existing XP SP2 Prof
machine that has the following 6 XP Power toys installed on it.

MS Vista Upgrade advisor says about all 6, "This program might have minor
compatibility issues after upgrading to Windows Vista." Upgrade advisor
does not tell me I need to uninstall them before running the upgrade?

Power Toys 1 through 3 are the only ones I use frequently and will miss if
I
must uninstall all 6 before running Vista Upgrade. It is possible that
Vista includes the capabilites these 3 tools provide? Expecially the
auto
logon to windows in TweakUI.

Does anyone know if XP Power Toys 1, 2, & 3 below function in Vista?
1 TweakUI
2 Image resizer
3 Command Here
4 Slide Show Generator
5 HTML slide show wizard
6 Alt Tab task switcher

TweakUI will not work and you'll have a hard time uninstalling it in Vista.
Remove anything the upgrade advisor says could be a problem in Vista. Also
remove any AV programs, 3rd party firewalls, system level utilities, CD/DVVD
burning programs such as Roxio and Nero, and any other software that uses
drivers.

Setting up an autologin is simple to do in XP even without TweakUI, and the
process is the same in Vista.
From a command prompt type control userpasswords2, uncheck the box that
Users must enter a username and password, then click apply or ok, and it
prompts for the account name and it's password that you want to auto login
to.

Before doing the upgrade I recommend you image the system using something
Acronis True Image Home v. 10 (which works in Vista too), saving the image
to external media such as a USB drive. That way if something goes wrong
during the upgrade you can restore the XP image.

Don't just rely on the Upgrade Advisor - it's only that, advice, not a
guarantee. Research all the hardware to make sure Vista compatible drivers
are available. Same with the software, check on the vendor websites for
compatibility.

Disconnect all peripheral devices, leaving only the keyboard, monitor, mouse
and DVD drive. After the upgrade add hardware devices one at a time.
 
M

MICHAEL

An excellent little image resizer. It's free, too.
http://www.vso-software.fr/products/image_resizer/image_resizer.php

The VSO free image resize software organizes your photos by shrinking their resolution or
moving them within your hard drive. VSO Image resizer is the perfect tool for those who store
their digital pictures and images on their PC and who want to resize, compress, convert, create
copies, create thumbnails, import or organize photos.
With this free resize image software, you can create e-mail friendly versions of your images,
load them faster, move them easily from folder to folder, change their format, edit large
numbers of image files/batch image resize and thus save space on your hard drive. Using high
resolution 1600x1200 for creating wallpaper or file-sharing you can save your memory. VSO Image
Resizer can also change file names using a template and you can add your own watermark with
transparency support.
VSO Image resizer is integrated into the Windows explorer shell, right click on your pictures
and start working on your pictures !

-Michael
 
L

Lloyd Sheen

Does that work for anyone else. I have Ultimate and it does not seem to
work. I used that all the time in XP.

LS
 
B

Beck

Dustin Harper said:
Command Here works.
Can't get image resizer to work.

Shame about the image resizer, I used to find it really handy. I am really
surprised they did not add that to right click menu on Vista. Especially as
photo gallery does not even have a proper resizer either.
 
D

DJB

To: Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]
Thanks for the helpful reply. You mention uninstalling Roxio software
before trying to run a Vista Upgrade. I have latest version of Roxio, Easy
Media creator Ver. 9. Does your suggestion apply to this also?
DJB



TweakUI will not work and you'll have a hard time uninstalling it in Vista.
Remove anything the upgrade advisor says could be a problem in Vista. Also
remove any AV programs, 3rd party firewalls, system level utilities, CD/DVVD
burning programs such as Roxio and Nero, and any other software that uses
drivers.

Setting up an autologin is simple to do in XP even without TweakUI, and the
process is the same in Vista.
From a command prompt type control userpasswords2, uncheck the box that
Users must enter a username and password, then click apply or ok, and it
prompts for the account name and it's password that you want to auto login
to.

Before doing the upgrade I recommend you image the system using something
Acronis True Image Home v. 10 (which works in Vista too), saving the image
to external media such as a USB drive. That way if something goes wrong
during the upgrade you can restore the XP image.

Don't just rely on the Upgrade Advisor - it's only that, advice, not a
guarantee. Research all the hardware to make sure Vista compatible drivers
are available. Same with the software, check on the vendor websites for
compatibility.

Disconnect all peripheral devices, leaving only the keyboard, monitor, mouse
and DVD drive. After the upgrade add hardware devices one at a time.
 
R

Rock

DJB said:
To: Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]
Thanks for the helpful reply. You mention uninstalling Roxio software
before trying to run a Vista Upgrade. I have latest version of Roxio,
Easy
Media creator Ver. 9. Does your suggestion apply to this also?

EMC9 is supposed to be compatible with Vista, but it has components that use
drivers. I don't have personal experience doing an upgrade with EMC9
installed. If it were me, I would uninstall it for the upgrade and
reinstall afterwards. If you image the system before doing the upgrade, you
could try it with EMC 9 installed. If it doesn't work out restore the
image, remove EMC and try again.

That said my real preference is to do a custom (clean) install, then
reinstalling all the apps from original media. You can use WET (Windows
Easy Transfer) on the XP installation to save data and settings, then use
WET in Vista to bring them back in.
 
D

DJB

Thanks, I'll Ghost an image to another partition before running the upgrade.

DJB said:
To: Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]
Thanks for the helpful reply. You mention uninstalling Roxio software
before trying to run a Vista Upgrade. I have latest version of Roxio,
Easy
Media creator Ver. 9. Does your suggestion apply to this also?

EMC9 is supposed to be compatible with Vista, but it has components that use
drivers. I don't have personal experience doing an upgrade with EMC9
installed. If it were me, I would uninstall it for the upgrade and
reinstall afterwards. If you image the system before doing the upgrade, you
could try it with EMC 9 installed. If it doesn't work out restore the
image, remove EMC and try again.

That said my real preference is to do a custom (clean) install, then
reinstalling all the apps from original media. You can use WET (Windows
Easy Transfer) on the XP installation to save data and settings, then use
WET in Vista to bring them back in.
 
R

Rock

Ok, good luck. Post back the outcome if you can think of it.

DJB said:
Thanks, I'll Ghost an image to another partition before running the
upgrade.

"Rock" <[email protected]> wrote
DJB said:
To: Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]
Thanks for the helpful reply. You mention uninstalling Roxio software
before trying to run a Vista Upgrade. I have latest version of Roxio,
Easy
Media creator Ver. 9. Does your suggestion apply to this also?

EMC9 is supposed to be compatible with Vista, but it has components that
use
drivers. I don't have personal experience doing an upgrade with EMC9
installed. If it were me, I would uninstall it for the upgrade and
reinstall afterwards. If you image the system before doing the upgrade,
you
could try it with EMC 9 installed. If it doesn't work out restore the
image, remove EMC and try again.

That said my real preference is to do a custom (clean) install, then
reinstalling all the apps from original media. You can use WET (Windows
Easy Transfer) on the XP installation to save data and settings, then use
WET in Vista to bring them back in.
TweakUI will not work and you'll have a hard time uninstalling it in
Vista.
Remove anything the upgrade advisor says could be a problem in Vista.
Also
remove any AV programs, 3rd party firewalls, system level utilities,
CD/DVVD
burning programs such as Roxio and Nero, and any other software that uses
drivers.

Setting up an autologin is simple to do in XP even without TweakUI, and
the
process is the same in Vista.
From a command prompt type control userpasswords2, uncheck the box that
Users must enter a username and password, then click apply or ok, and it
prompts for the account name and it's password that you want to auto
login
to.

Before doing the upgrade I recommend you image the system using something
Acronis True Image Home v. 10 (which works in Vista too), saving the
image
to external media such as a USB drive. That way if something goes wrong
during the upgrade you can restore the XP image.

Don't just rely on the Upgrade Advisor - it's only that, advice, not a
guarantee. Research all the hardware to make sure Vista compatible
drivers
are available. Same with the software, check on the vendor websites for
compatibility.

Disconnect all peripheral devices, leaving only the keyboard, monitor,
mouse
and DVD drive. After the upgrade add hardware devices one at a time.
 
G

Guest

Yes, I am running a new install of Vista Business, and right-clicking on a
folder while holding shift, produces new options, one being, Open Command
Window Here.

JS
 
G

Guest

There's also an issue with the current version of Roxio that affects how the
driver is loaded in Vista.. ie, it won't load successfully most of the time.
Luckily there's a patch on the Roxio website that you can download. Its an
identified problem with a working patch.
 

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