Windows 10: Windows 10 PowerToys gets built-in image resizer

Last year, Microsoft announced PowerToys for Windows 10, which comes with utilities that grants you features beyond what you could do within the operating system. Microsoft is working on a new set of utilities for Windows 10 PowerToys and some of the improvements are now rolling out.

Today, Microsoft released an updated version of PowerToys for Windows 10 and it comes with a bunch of new utilities. In PowerToys version 0.16, there is a new tool called ‘Image Resizer’, which allows users to resize pictures quickly in bulk.

PowerToys’ Image Resizer uses Windows Shell extension, so you can select the images in Explorer or desktop and then right-click to open the context menu where you will find the option to use the app.



As you can see in the above screenshot, the app comes with the following size configurations:

• Small (854×480 pixels)
• Medium (1366×768 pixels)
• Large (1920×1080)
• Phone (320×568)
• Custom

In addition to quality configurations, PowerToys also allow you to make pictures smaller, resize original pictures, and you can also choose to ignore the orientation of pictures. You can click on ‘settings’ to change the default values for each size and compression levels for JPG, PNG and other formats.

Microsoft’s Image Resizer tool is a relatively simple and effective app for image resizing. You can simply select one or multiple images, enter your input size or select default config, select compression level, and it’ll reduce your image size.

For example, the size of our sample image was about 224KB, but we were able to reduce it to just 64KB without any major quality difference.

Window Walker for PowerToys


The latest update also introduces another tool called ‘Window Walker’, which is an alternative to existing Alt + Tab experience.

The Window Walker allows you to switch between apps already open on the device by typing its name in a search. If you keep a lot of apps open at the same time, it might be worth trying Window Walker.



Windows 10’s PowerToys is not available in the Microsoft Store, but installing PowerToys on your system is easy.

If you don’t have it installed already, simply download the installer from Github, and run it. Once you’ve installed PowerToys on your system, you can open the app from a new icon in the system tray.

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New Microsoft PowerToys version 0.16.0 released for Windows 10

Source:

• Releases . microsoft/PowerToys . GitHub
• GitHub - microsoft/PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity

How to Download and Install Microsoft PowerToys in Windows 10

 

New Microsoft PowerToys version 0.14.0 released for Windows 10

UPDATE 12/5: New Microsoft PowerToys version 0.14.1 released for Windows 10


How to install

For new and existing users, head to Releases . microsoft/PowerToys . GitHub and download the PowerToysSetup.msi installer.

How to Download and Install Microsoft PowerToys in Windows 10




What’s new inside 0.14.0

FancyZones

Changes:

• Removed legacy editor (along with the settings option to choose between the legacy editor and the new editor).
• Added a settings to disable FanzyZones for user defined list of applications.
• The editor now opens highlighting the current active layout.
• Show the correct keyboard key for the editor shortcut (with some limitations due to the WebView control).

Bug fixes:

• Fixed the FancyZones bug that was stealing the number keys (mostly happening when dragging Chrome tabs).
• Fixed a DPI scaling bug in the FancyZones editor that was causing the zones to be placed in the wrong position on the screen.
• Fixed bug preventing several apps from working with FancyZones (there are still some cases, like remote apps, that may not work).

PowerRename

Changes:

• The dialog can be resized (still need to finished the work to handle DPI changes when moving the dialog between screen with different scaling %).
• Added settings to restore search and replace flags value from previous run.
• Added settings to enable autocomplete and auto-suggest.

Bug fixes:

• Improved RegEx replace result.
• Fix bug preventing sub-folder items to be renamed if parent folder is also renamed.

Other bug fixes

• fixed a bug in the runner that was causing the tray icon to not appear.
• minor UI tweaks to the Settings appearance (icons position and margins, module's description text and documentation links position and margins).
• fixed a crash in the SortcutGuide.

NOTE: When upgrading from a previous version, the installer will close all the Windows Explorer windows in order to update the PowerRename shell extension.

 

Photo Resizer--Windows 10

Prior to upgrading to Windows 10, I used a PowerToy Image Resizer when I wanted to change the file size: right-clicking on the photo gave me the opportunity to use a VSO Resizer, then selections for different sizes of photo file size. This is NOT a crop/resize
issue, but rather swapping the photo out to a different type of quality, by percent or HD type, etc. I used that VSO Resizer tool from Windows Vista thru Windows 7. How/where can I get this type of resizing tool now that I'm on Windows 10?