Vista & Powertoys
Posted by admin on Jun 16th, 2007
Hi,Have Microsoft produced any PowerToys for Vista specifically Vista 64 bit? I found the Image resizer for XP particularly useful and would like something similar.RegardsAlanC
Posted by admin on Jun 16th, 2007
Hi,Have Microsoft produced any PowerToys for Vista specifically Vista 64 bit? I found the Image resizer for XP particularly useful and would like something similar.RegardsAlanC
Jun 18th, 2007 at 05:26 am
Not yet, and there is no news of any yet. But, for resizing, you can check out VSO's image resizer. vsosoftware.fr/products/image_resizer/ Dustin Harper dharper@vistarip.com vistarip.com "Alan Clegg"
Jun 19th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
No, Microsoft have not created any PowerToys for Windows Vista as of yet however, I recommend you keep an eye out on the shell:revealed blog, shellrevealed.com.Have a great day, Kristan M. Kenney canucky.net/This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "Alan Clegg"
Jun 21st, 2007 at 06:39 am
I posted this in this newsgroup earlier today! tinyurl.com/2efpckMicrosoft has a long tradition of releasing power toys for Windows. These are invariably unsupported (although the batch written for Windows XP were pretty polished) and generally pretty darn useful. Power toys tend to come out when you least expect them, often starting out as a hobby project for a Microsoft programmer (Raymond Chen, author of the original Tweak UI, would be the first member of my Windows Hall of Fame). I suspect it takes some pushing to get Microsoft's semiofficial blessing and be released as unsupported code, so we might not see them until after SP1.So, dear 'Softies, on the off chance that you or someone you know is working on Vista's Tweak UI and other wouldbe power toys, here are some ideas, absolutely free (and worth every penny). If you've seen some Microsoft utilities floating around that deserve wider mention, post them in the Talkback section. And if you've got a favorite tweak you'd like to see in a power toy, add your suggestions to the list here. Here's what I want to see in Vista Power Toys: 1. Search Toy. Give me a strippeddown search tool where I can set some criteria in a small dialog box and get results like the ones that appear on the Start menu when you use the Search box. You could start with Brandon Paddock's Start++ and not go wrong.2. Save My Settings. Let me save the settings for any individual program installed on my Vista PC. If I have program A, B, and C on my system, I'd like to save all the personalization information I've saved in the registry and in various settings files and templates. I would love a snapshot of my settings for SnagIt or BlogJet or Clear Context IMS Professional or ClipMate or RoboForm or OneNote or any of the other programs I can't live without and install on any new system as soon as possible. The Windows Easy Transfer wizard does some of this, but I want a quicker version that will work with one or two programs at a time instead of my entire system.3. Move Public Folders. Currently, you have to hack the registry to change the location of the Public folders to a drive other than the system drive. I'd like to be able to move these files with a couple Tweak UI clicks.4. A pointandclick interface for RoboCopy. What? You haven't heard of the Robust File Copy Utility, Robocopy.exe? It's a commandline power user's copy command, introduced in the Windows 2003 Resource Kit Tools and installed in the WindowsSystem32 folder in all editions of Windows Vista. Microsoft's Derk Benisch has already produced Robocopy GUI. It deserves a wider audience.OK, those are my suggestions. So what would you add to this list?source: blogs.zdnet.com "Alan Clegg"