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Well, I guess bragging about my 10 year old computer jinxed it...it died... Anyway, got a new one but my photo resizing program is still locked up in the old one... can't remember what you guys said to use, I know this question has been answered before.....but heck, I can't even remember what I had for breakfast!!!!!

Dave---Happy to know that I'm not the only one with computer woes. A good Free resizing software is available as a download from Microsoft Powertoys.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...powertoys.mspx

Thanks Brian! Going to go check it out!

irfanview is excellent and free also.

Well, good thing my kid is home tonight.... I guess the new 'puter has Vista instead of XP and Powertoys won't work with it.... Had AJ check it out, told me to just use the Microsoft Paint program that came with the 'puter!!!! Duh.......

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Well, good thing my kid is home tonight.... I guess the new 'puter has Vista instead of XP and Powertoys won't work with it.... Had AJ check it out, told me to just use the Microsoft Paint program that came with the 'puter!!!! Duh.......

Paint won't do resizing, it's the same old program that came out w/ windows 3.1.. not much has changed since then. if you adjust the size, it will cut the right side and bottom off the picture.. basicly if the screen has slider bars, when you resize, you will only have what you could see within the slider bars left. GIMP can do it, the new version runs on Vista.

Got to love having kids around. I can figure my way around a lot of stuff but when I get stuck the daughter or son get a call

Originally Posted by Mike P

Got to love having kids around. I can figure my way around a lot of stuff but when I get stuck the daughter or son get a call

Well, after 5 years of college so far on 'puters, I suppose it's easy for him...Heck, took me a couple days to figure out how to turn it on!!!!!!

Yeah, I figured that out!!!!! Bummer!!! Tried it through the email resizer, have to see how that works!!!!

Well, I got some pics resized using the email resizer, got to be an easier way though!!! Everything I've found for freebies so far won't work with Vista.

I googled "resize photos" and came up with a program called "Picasa" that supposedly works with Vista. I use HP photo and imaging or Camedia master that came with my Olympus camera.

I hate having new tech force fed to me because I can no longer find the stuff that I’ve been using for years (and it’s just wore out now).

Do you think it a basic hatred of new technology that keeps most of us here working on old cars??????

Originally Posted by Mike P

I hate having new tech force fed to me because I can no longer find the stuff that I’ve been using for years (and it’s just wore out now).

Do you think it a basic hatred of new technology that keeps most of us here working on old cars??????

To an extent, I think that is very true Mike.... I do like the new tech stuff, well some of it anyway.... For me it's just a case of working with components that I'm comfortable with.... I do keep studying up on the EFI stuff, I like all the possibilities that it represents. Then there's the old and new combined, like a set of Hilborn's with EFI components to run it...

Originally Posted by DennyW

Dave, what are you.....deaf ??

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What is IrfanView?


IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista.ps: And don't forget to download the Plugins....

Only about half deaf! I looked at it, looks like it does a lot of stuff I know nothing about, it sez it will cut and crop, but doesn't specificaly say it does resize... I need something simple just to resize with! Is this it or more like all the trick stuff you guys do?

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Only about half deaf! I looked at it, looks like it does a lot of stuff I know nothing about, it sez it will cut and crop, but doesn't specificaly say it does resize... I need something simple just to resize with! Is this it or more like all the trick stuff you guys do?

I just downloaded it and it resizes pretty easily.