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 是微软公司为 Windows XP 系统制作的系统增强工具。内含网页幻灯片生成器、CD 幻灯片刻录工具、快速用户切换、 ISO 镜像文件刻录工具、虚拟桌面、可视化任务切换工具、图像缩放工具、桌面背景自动切换工具、摄像头增强工具、任务栏放大镜、音频播放器和系统优化工具等非常方便实用的软件。PowerToys是由开发人员在软件产品正式发布并投放生产后相继编制的附加程序。它们的出现不仅使Windows体验更加兴味盎然，而且，还为Windows系统平添了许多功能特性。
在此打开命令窗体
这个PowerToy可将一个“在此打开命令窗体”环境菜单选项添加至文件系统文件夹，从而，为您提供了迅速打开一个指向所选文件夹之命令窗体（cmd.exe）的快捷方式。
Alt-Tab替代程序
在使用这个PowerToy的情况下，您不仅可看到对应于可供切换应用程序窗体的相关图标，而且，还能对每个窗体页面进行预览。此项功能在基于某一应用程序的多个会话期同时处于打开状态的情况下特别具有帮助作用。
Tweak UI
这个PowerToy将允许您针对那些未被暴露于Windows XP缺省用户界面下的系统设置实施访问调用，其中包括：鼠标设置、浏览器设置及任务栏设置等。
Power Calculator
在使用这个PowerToy的情况下，您将可在针对功能特性生成图解并进行评估的同时，执行多种不同类型的转换操作。
Image Resizer
这个PowerToy将允许您借助右键快捷菜单针对一或多个图像文件同时执行尺寸调整操作。
CD幻灯播放生成器
在使用这个PowerToy的情况下，您将能够以幻灯播放效果针对已被刻录至CD介质的图像文件进行查看。不仅如此，该生成器还具备针对Windows 9x操作系统的向后兼容特性。
虚拟桌面管理器
在使用这个PowerToy的情况下，您将可从Windows任务栏对四个以下桌面同时进行有效管理。
任务栏放大镜
您可借助这个PowerToy以放大效果显示任务栏上的某一部分。
HTML幻灯播放向导
这个向导程序可帮助您以HTML格式生成对应于数码相片的幻灯播放效果，而由此生成的HTML则可直接用于Web站点发布。
Webcam Timershot
这个PowerToy将允许您按照规定时间间隔从已被连接至相关计算机的Webcam拍摄图像信息，并将所获资料保存到您所指定的位置。
Download: Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP(汉化版)下载页面