The shell team is responsible for Powertoys once Vista has RTM'd, yes?

Please make sure and upgrade the image resizer! That is an invaluable tool! :)

Hope to see some cool ones this year!

Amen! I use the ImageResizer all the time on pictures from my digital camera.

I think the shortcut arrows in Vista are just plain ugly, ugly, ugly! And they don't scale either (at least on the desktop). So please give a powertoy (like you always have in the past) to change their apearance or remove them altogether.

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Herbert N Swearengen III

And please update the Powertoy Calculator which I just find awesome. I am also wondering why this thing is not just bundled with the OS. :)

When you are at it upgrade "virtual desktop manager tool" and "open command window here"..
Both these features come with OpenSource OS automaticly featured... LMAO...

And oh, Apple OSX 10.5 is also going to feature Virtual Desktop Manager... Maybe it will put some move into you guys... :D 

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"I don't need your civil war,
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers, In a human grocery store, Ain't that fresh,
I don't need your civil war, I don't need one more war"
- Guns N' Roses - Civil war

The "Open command window here" functionality is included by default - you just have to hold SHIFT when you Rt. Click for it to appear in the context menu.  You'll also get the "Copy as path" command on items if you do a SHIFT+Rt. Click.

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Ben Betz
Search and Organize
Software Design Engineer

For the benefit of the sweaty masses who wouldn't know how to do it otherwise. Could Vista Powertoys please include an easy way to change a user's Documents, Pictures, Music, Videos etc folders?  It's always a good idea to keep your data seperate from your main OS just for data security.

tweakUI generally does this. i have no doubt it will be included in the vista power toys :)

mikehalsey_uk:

For the benefit of the sweaty masses who wouldn't know how to do it otherwise. Could Vista Powertoys please include an easy way to change a user's Documents, Pictures, Music, Videos etc folders?  It's always a good idea to keep your data seperate from your main OS just for data security.

This is also built in to Vista now (though not in one singular interface, which i believe we have a powertoy in the works on, no promises).

• Start Menu | <username>
• right click a green folder (yes it only works on green folders)
• select properties
• select location tab
• point that location to the place you want
• hit move

you are now redirected! note that in the <username> folder, there will be no change, but when you hit music from that folder, it will auto-magically go to that new location. note that you have to use "move" instead of copy, as copy will result in 2 music folders, one green, one not.

 

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Jerry Koh
Lead PM, First Experience, Logon, and Profiles
Windows Shell Team

oh.. right click drag and drop from user's folder into any other location also works... :) look at anshul's post at http://shellrevealed.com/forums/post/2520.aspx

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Jerry Koh
Lead PM, First Experience, Logon, and Profiles
Windows Shell Team

Hope SyncToy is also included. I am using ver 1.2 in Vista 5728 with Net 1.1. Runs great but I keep getting a pester screen asking if it is the only version running.

Jonty

benbetz:

The "Open command window here" functionality is included by default - you just have to hold SHIFT when you Rt. Click for it to appear in the context menu.  You'll also get the "Copy as path" command on items if you do a SHIFT+Rt. Click.

Thank you so much! I didn't know about that.  

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"I don't need your civil war,
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers, In a human grocery store, Ain't that fresh,
I don't need your civil war, I don't need one more war"
- Guns N' Roses - Civil war

I was so surprised to see the Image Resizer being ignored in a VERY digital world that we live nowadays Powertoys of XP have been faves of mine, and it was surprising to see none of them incorporated as a standard context menu item in Vista. Hopefully they do something about this. Dont expect us to buy Picture manager for this small but essential thing.

benbetz:

The "Open command window here" functionality is included by default - you just have to hold SHIFT when you Rt. Click for it to appear in the context menu.  You'll also get the "Copy as path" command on items if you do a SHIFT+Rt. Click.

Yes, and it now works with a Shift-Right Click in the white space of a folder so you don't have to be one folder above the one you're interested in for it to work.  Thank goodness!

Grrr... double posts wouldn't happen so often if the post button was more responsive!

Relocating Documents/Movie/Music folders works fine, except it sometimes changes the default nice blue icon to an ordinary manila folder. And there is no option to change the icon in the Customize tab. Please fix this behaviour.

For a really nice Windows image viewer/resizer/editor, Irfanview is a great tool. I agree though; I can't wait to see the new Vista PowerToys. Some of those really ought to ship with the OS, IMHO.

 

Virtual desktops anybody? I mean, Vista already uses a Virtual Desktop for UAC prompts, right? Well, what if those were user-accessible... genuine desktop switching, a la BSD/Linux/OS X/every single other graphical OS out there. That said, even the option to simulate desktops by restoring and minimizing windows in groups would be nice.

powertoys/shell tweaks I would like to see:

• proper analog view scaling in explorer (get details view with larger thumbs..etc)
• virtual desktops, using DWM's thumbnails for some fancy goodness
• shell image tagging support extended
• option to disable DWM's dpi scaling. For non-dpi-aware apps, I'll just take it smaller, rather than fuzzy and ugly and illegible!
• how about some cool window management extension that allows us to rotate the DWM's 3D planes in 3D space?
• better text editor, with Microsoft Word document and PDF reading support (its shameful that Apple's TextEdit.App supports .doc but no bundled Windows app does!)

I'd love to see all the applicable Powertoys ported/updated over to Vista.  It's nice to see that "Open Command Prompt Here" and "Alt-Tab Replacement" are built-in to Vista but I am surprised that the quick "Image resizer" tool, the "ClearType Tuner PowerToy" and the "Virtual Desktop Manager" aren't also built-in.  (Also, as mentioned above, the Power Calculator which should be the standard calculator by now.) 

I have a horrible feeling that these extras will form part of the Ultimate Extras for Vista Ultimate only customers, which would be a real shame and a rip off since they were free and unsupported under XP.  What other goodies could there possibly be for Ultimate Extras anyway?  Cue another lame Plus pack with 3 bland, uninspiring themes, a couple of non-event games, a few more pointless mouse pointers and 1 decent screensaver - the aquarium. 

A new version of SyncToy was just released to be compatible with Vista. You can find SyncToy 1.4 here:

 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e0fc1154-c975-4814-9649-cce41af06eb7&displaylang=en

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Program Manager
Windows Shell Team

Synctoy 1.4 is not compatible with 64bit Vista.

I thought DpiScaling was disabled by default upon install?

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\DWM]
"UseDPIScaling"=dword:00000000

Karl:

powertoys/shell tweaks I would like to see:

• proper analog view scaling in explorer (get details view with larger thumbs..etc)
• virtual desktops, using DWM's thumbnails for some fancy goodness
• shell image tagging support extended
• option to disable DWM's dpi scaling. For non-dpi-aware apps, I'll just take it smaller, rather than fuzzy and ugly and illegible!
• how about some cool window management extension that allows us to rotate the DWM's 3D planes in 3D space?
• better text editor, with Microsoft Word document and PDF reading support (its shameful that Apple's TextEdit.App supports .doc but no bundled Windows app does!)

Batch image resizer already works for Vista, you just need the EXE from the XP install.

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Wuggawoo

bring on the powertoys! :D

I would like to download the Vista Powertoy like a lot have said I hate the arrow in the icons. I cannot find the download for this program could you please help me thank you