It's the 23rd April 2002 and look what Warp2Search have found over at Microsoft.... The Powertoys for Windows XP!
They're back! PowerToys are additional programs that developers work on after a product has been released to manufacturing. They add fun and functionality to the Windows experience.
Important Notes...
- You must uninstall your old PowerToys before installing the new ones.
- PowerToys are available in English only.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- With this PowerToy you can graph and evaluate functions as well as perform many different types of conversions.
- This PowerToy enables you to resize one or many image files with a right-click.
- 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.
- Manage up to four desktops from the Windows taskbar with this PowerToy.
- Use this PowerToy to magnify part of the screen from the taskbar.
- This wizard helps you create an HTML slide show of your digital pictures, ready to place on your Web site.
- 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.