PowerToys add fun and functionality to the Windows experience. What are they? PowerToys are additional programs that developers work on after a product has been released.
Note: We take great care to ensure that PowerToys work as they should, but they are not part of Windows and are not supported by Microsoft. For this reason, Microsoft Technical Support is unable to answer questions about PowerToys. PowerToys are for Windows XP only and will not work with Windows Vista.
Important
• If you installed PowerToys prior to April 23, 2002, you must uninstall your old PowerToys before installing the versions available here.
• PowerToys only work with U.S. English regional settings.
Current PowerToy options:
Color Control Panel Applet
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. Download or learn more.
SyncToy
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. Download or learn more.
RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer
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. Download or learn more.
ClearType Tuner
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.
HTML Slide Show Wizard
This wizard helps you create an HTML slide show of your digital pictures, ready to place on your Web site.
Open Command Window Here
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.
Alt-Tab Replacement
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.
Tweak UI
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.
Power Calculator
With this PowerToy you can graph and evaluate functions as well as perform many different types of conversions.
Image Resizer
This PowerToy enables you to resize one or many image files with a right-click.
CD Slide Show Generator
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.
Virtual Desktop Manager
Manage up to four desktops from the Windows taskbar with this PowerToy.
Taskbar Magnifier
Use this PowerToy to magnify part of the screen from the taskbar.
Webcam Timershot
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.
Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP
Powertoys 是微軟公司為 Windows XP 系統制作的系統增強工具。內含網頁幻燈片生成器、CD 幻燈片刻錄工具、快速用戶切換、 ISO 鏡像文件刻錄工具、虛擬桌面、可視化任務切換工具、圖像縮放工具、桌面背景自動切換工具、攝像頭增強工具、任務欄放大鏡、音頻播放器和系統優化工具等非常方便實用的軟件。PowerToys是由開發人員在軟件產品正式發布并投放生產后相繼編制的附加程序。它們的出現不僅使Windows體驗更加興味盎然，而且，還為Windows系統平添了許多功能特性。
在此打開命令窗體
這個PowerToy可將一個“在此打開命令窗體”環境菜單選項添加至文件系統文件夾，從而，為您提供了迅速打開一個指向所選文件夾之命令窗體（cmd.exe）的快捷方式。
Alt-Tab替代程序
在使用這個PowerToy的情況下，您不僅可看到對應于可供切換應用程序窗體的相關圖標，而且，還能對每個窗體頁面進行預覽。此項功能在基于某一應用程序的多個會話期同時處于打開狀態的情況下特別具有幫助作用。
Tweak UI
這個PowerToy將允許您針對那些未被暴露于Windows XP缺省用戶界面下的系統設置實施訪問調用，其中包括：鼠標設置、瀏覽器設置及任務欄設置等。
Power Calculator
在使用這個PowerToy的情況下，您將可在針對功能特性生成圖解并進行評估的同時，執行多種不同類型的轉換操作。
Image Resizer
這個PowerToy將允許您借助右鍵快捷菜單針對一或多個圖像文件同時執行尺寸調整操作。
CD幻燈播放生成器
在使用這個PowerToy的情況下，您將能夠以幻燈播放效果針對已被刻錄至CD介質的圖像文件進行查看。不僅如此，該生成器還具備針對Windows 9x操作系統的向后兼容特性。
虛擬桌面管理器
在使用這個PowerToy的情況下，您將可從Windows任務欄對四個以下桌面同時進行有效管理。
任務欄放大鏡
您可借助這個PowerToy以放大效果顯示任務欄上的某一部分。
HTML幻燈播放向導
這個向導程序可幫助您以HTML格式生成對應于數碼相片的幻燈播放效果，而由此生成的HTML則可直接用于Web站點發布。
Webcam Timershot
這個PowerToy將允許您按照規定時間間隔從已被連接至相關計算機的Webcam拍攝圖像信息，并將所獲資料保存到您所指定的位置。
Download: Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP(漢化版)下載頁面