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I was recently asked to resize a couple of images on a web page. While I’m not sure how to modify the HTML to make it work, I was able to see where the image is getting pulled from. Once there, I wanted to use The Image Resizer Powertoy available from Microsoft and just Right Click the images and resize them. The server greeted me with a message saying “The powertoys require Windows XP or a service pack. They will not function on a version of Windows earlier or later than Windows XP.

Well that’s not good enough, I don’t even have Paint installed on the server. Well, this is where InstallShields /V /a switch comes into play.

Copied the ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe to the C: drive. I then opened up a Command prompt once to a C:\ typed “imageresizerpowertoysetup.exe /V /a told it to extract to c:\imageresize. Once the installer was done, it left a System32 folder in there. I took the phototoys.dll file out, pasted it into c:\windoows\system32, then from the command line or start/run type “regsvr32 phototoys.dll”.

I now get the “Resize Pictures” option when I right click on the image.