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Appendix D. Power Toys and TweakUI
Since
the release of Windows 95, Microsoft has made available a set of
"Power Toys," which is a suite of
extra little utilities that Microsoft feels power users would
appreciate. A new set of Power Toys has been released especially for
Windows XP and can be downloaded for free.You can download the entire Power Toys package from http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp
and install them selectively. (If this link becomes
unavailable for whatever reason, the Power Toys package will always
be available at http://www.annoyances.org.)
Power Toys for Windows XP comes with the following
tools:TweakUI
This Power Toy 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. By far the
most useful component of the Power Toys package, TweakUI is discussed
further in the subsequent section.Note that TweakUI 1.33, which was designed for Windows 2000, Windows
Me, and Windows 9x, will also work on Windows XP, but it
won't provide the XP-specific settings available in
Version 2.0.
Open Command Window Here
This Power Toy allows you to right-click any folder and select
"Open Command Window Here" to open
a Command Prompt window (as described in Chapter 6), with the current directory set to the
selected folder.You can also implement this feature manually with the Registry Editor
(see Chapter 7). Navigate to
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell, and create a
new key called cmd. Open the new key, double-click
the (default) value, and type
Open Command
Window Here. Then, create a new
key called command. Open this key, double-click the
(default) value, and type
cmd.exe /k "cd
%L".
Alt-Tab Replacement
This Power Toy adds a preview of each window to the Alt-Tab window.
Although it's a little more awkward than the
standard Alt-Tab window, it can be particularly helpful when multiple
sessions of an application are open.
Power Calculator
This enhanced calculator is an alternative to the standard Calculator
(discussed in Chapter 4), and adds expression
solving, graphing, unit conversions, and customizable constants.
Image Resizer
This Power Toy (see Figure 1) allows you to
quickly resize a group of image files to one of several predefined
sizes, or to a custom size you specify.
Figure D-1. The Image Resizer
You can view images stored on a CD as a slide show with this Power
Toy.
Virtual Desktop Manager
The Virtual Desktop Manager doubles or quadruples your Desktop area.
More accurately, it simply allows you position application windows
off screen and easily view or hide them.
Taskbar Magnifier
Use this Power Toy to magnify part of the screen from the Taskbar.
See "Microsoft Magnifier" in Chapter 4 for a similar tool.
HTML Slide Show Wizard
This wizard generates a series of HTML files, allowing you to create
a web-based slide show of your digital pictures.
Webcam Timershot
The Webcam Timershot takes pictures with your webcam at specified
time intervals, and saves them to any location. The images can then
be uploaded to a web server with a WSH script (see Chapter 9), or simply saved on a folder for later
viewing.
