Publishing to Codeplex in many respects, separate from Microsoft, is likely the way all “powertoy” like tools have gone. It plays every video file you can throw at it, and has been rock-solid for decades. My suspicion is that Brice was the original writer of the Image Resizer Powertoy (I’m too lazy to look it up internally) and it was simply easier for Brice to publish the app through Codeplex (after a rewrite using a NEW non-Microsoft published codebase) than to go through our legal gauntlet every time he published a version. VLC Media Player: If you watch videos on your PC, you should get VLC Media Player. If you’ve noticed, we at Microsoft haven’t released any Powertoys in a very long time but lots of tools have been publicly released on Codeplex.
It should be noted that Brice, the author, is a Microsoft employee. Resizing photos for the purposes of email distribution or web publication is now very easy within Windows 7 – and works in batches through the Explorer UI using this simple tool.
The codebase is completely different however. This is a tool identical in every way to the original Powertoy for Windows XP that accomplished the same task. It was created (by me) to extend support to non-XP and 64-bit versions of Windows (including 2000, Vista & 7). This is a clone of the Image Resizer Powertoy for Windows XP - a PowerToy that allows you to right-click on one or more image files in Windows Explorer to resize them.
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