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One of the very cool secret additions to Windows XP are Powertoys.
Powertoys are free downloadable tools that add some really cool functionality to Windows XP and they do alot of the things most of you may have been wishing for.
Powertoys are additional programs that developers work on after a product has been released and they are not officially part of Windows.
Click here to visit the Powertoys site at Microsoft
There are a whole bunch of Powertoys and you will definitely find something useful. Some of our favorites are the Synctoy - which is fantastic for synchronizing folders and devices. TweakUI is another cool Powertoy that gives access to a ton of settings that are not exposed in Windows XP. You can do all kinds of things to user interfaces, explorer settings, taskbar settings etc.
Here is a screenshot of some of the available options in TweakUI Powertoy:
This is a list of the current Powertoys you can download:
Professional-level photographers and designers know that getting consistent, accurate color from file to screen to print and beyond is a requirement for great results. This new tool helps you manage Windows color settings in one place.
With new sources of files coming from every direction (such as digital cameras, e-mail, cell phones, portable media players, camcorders, PDAs, and laptops), SyncToy can help you copy, move, and synchronize different directories.
Are you a serious photographer? Now you can organize and work with digital RAW files in Windows Explorer (much as you can with JPEG images). This tool provides thumbnails, previews, printing, and metadata display for RAW images.
This PowerToy lets you use ClearType technology to make it easier to read text on your screen, and installs in the Control Panel for easy access.
This wizard helps you create an HTML slide show of your digital pictures, ready to place on your Web site.
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.
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.
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.
Version 2.10 requires Windows XP Service Pack 1 or Windows Server 2003.
With this PowerToy you can graph and evaluate functions as well as perform many different types of conversions.
This PowerToy enables you to resize one or many image files with a right-click.
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.
Manage up to four desktops from the Windows taskbar with this PowerToy.
Use this PowerToy to magnify part of the screen from the taskbar.
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.
You can get all the Powertoys here. Have fun!