
Click on Assets, and then click on the PowerToys setup file to download the PowerToys installer. Head to PowerToys release page on GithubĢ. Microsoft and PowerToys team together redesigned PowerToys and PowerToys PowerRename to match the look and feel of Windows 11. The PowerToys collection includes awesome Windows utilities such as Awake, color picker, FancyZones, PowerToys run PowerReanme, Fancyzones, Shortcut Guide, VideoConference Mute. Have you ever heard about PowerToys? They used to be available for Windows 95, Microsoft recently refreshed them for Windows 10 for power users to customize, improve the experience, and productivity on OS.

It’s your turn to use utilities and improve productivity in Windows 11. So, you no longer need to visit Github to download and install it. I’m excited to see where Image Resizer goes from here, and I look forward to another twelve years of blessing the lives of resizers everywhere.With Windows 11 release nearing, after Microsoft Edge, Microsoft released useful PowerToys to Microsoft Store. The Microsoft PowerToys team and I got in contact, and we decided to move Image Resizer for Windows into the PowerToys project, thus restoring it to its rightful place.Īll future bug fixes, enhancements, and releases of Image Resizer will be done as part of the Microsoft PowerToys project. Last September, Microsoft resurrected the PowerToys project, and shortly thereafter users began demanding that an image resizer be included. I’ve worked hard over the last twelve years to be a good steward of the utility, and to maintain the spirit of the original. Little did I know that my efforts would restore resizing hope to the galaxy. Quickly, however, she noticed there was no option toīeing a good son with a BSCS degree fresh under my belt, I set out to help my mom with her resizing problems. Gigantic, pink laptop with about an hour of batter life. They will not function on a version of Windows eariler or later then Windows XP.Ī service pack later, my dad finally convinced my mom that it was time to upgrade to Windows Vista. The powertoys require Windows XP or a service pack.

When they tried to install their favorite PowerToy, they were greeted by this disappointing, but beautifully glass-framed error message: Despite everyone telling them not to, a few brave souls decided to install the OS. It was a wildly popular PowerToy that allowed you to bulk resize image files so they could all fit on your 1.44 MB floppy disk or be uploaded using you 56 kbps dial-up modem. In the beginning, some anonymous Microsoft engineer created the Image Resizer Powertoy for Windows XP. Future versions of Image Resizer for Windows will be available as part of the Microsoft PowerToys.
