To make use of the resizer, just right-click an image file in Explorer, select the Resize pictures option from the context menu and then ether select one of the presets or enter the dimensions you'd like to use instead.

You can also choose the files format and settings that should be used when encoding images, and the naming format that should be used when saving. There are four defined by default – small, medium, large and phone – but you can delete these, edit them, or add to them. In the Image Resizer section of PowerToys' settings, you can configure as many image size presets as you like. You can right click on images in Explorer and opt to quickly resize them to various predefined dimensions – and if you head to PowerToys settings you can configure the sizes and other options that should be available. PowerToys File Explorer (Image credit: Microsoft) Image ResizerĪnother utility whose name says it all this is a tool for quickly resizing images ready for posting online, or using in other projects. You can also move windows around zones by pressing the Windows key and the cursor keys. To make use of your configured zones, hold down the Shift key while you drag a window or application around the screen, and it will snap to a zone when it is over the top of one. You can choose to use a series of rows or columns of varying sizes, or opt for a 'focused' layout in which you can define zones of different sizes – they can even overlap. If you have more than one monitor, it is possible to have different zone layouts configured for each display. There are various predefined zone layouts that you can choose from, or you can opt to create your own.

To configure the zones that make up a window layout, pressing Windows + ' to bring up the editor. With FancyZones, you can take this idea much further, dividing your screen up in custom zones of different sizes to help better organize your apps and windows.

This lets you quickly – instantly, in fact – resize a window to occupy a quarter or half of the screen. By default, the operating system makes it easy to organize open windows and running apps so you can see several at once by dragging them to the edge or corner of the screen causing them to be automatically resized. PowerToys color picker (Image credit: Microsoft) FancyZonesĪrguably the most useful PowerToy ever invented, FancyZones is an extension of the idea of snapping in Windows 10.

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