PowerToys for Windows Xp

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PowerToys are additional programs that developers work on after a product has been released to manufacturing.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/...s/powertoys.asp

Super-Fast User Switcher
With this PowerToy you can switch between users without having to go through the Logon screen.

Open Command Window Here
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.

Alt-Tab Replacement
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.

Tweak UI
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.

Power Calculator
With this PowerToy you can graph and evaluate functions as well as perform many different types of conversions.

Image Resizer
This PowerToy enables you to resize one or many image files with a right-click.

CD Slide Show Generator
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.

Virtual Desktop Manager
Manage up to four desktops from the Windows taskbar with this PowerToy.

Taskbar Magnifier
Use this PowerToy to magnify part of the screen from the taskbar.

HTML Slide Show Wizard
This wizard helps you create an HTML slide show of your digital pictures, ready to place on your Web site.

Webcam Timershot
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.

strat

looks like another heap od MS junk but anyway - fix that link

sceptre

Some of them are quite useful though. Especially the bit on TweakUI for Xp that lets you stop any prog you don't use too often from appearing in the new start menu.

MiCr0

for some reason they have been removed uptil the 18/19 Jan
strange!

daveirl

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