Don't know whether anyone can help - my old PC came with Microsoft Photo Editor which I actually quite liked for doing some of the more basic stuff with photos. My new PC doesn't have it and I'm missing it as the photo-editing software I have is pain in the @rse - if I crop a photo, it doesn't then let me save as a JPEG. So, anyone know how/where I can get a copy of MS Photo Editor?

Also, anyone know of software that will run through an entire directory creating a reduced size copy of each image in it?

Thanks for any help :-)

Microsoft do an Image Resizer Powertoy if you're running XP.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

Oh wow - thanks! And it's free, can't complain at that. I knew there'd be a wealth of techie knowledge on here!

It's basic but it does the job

Irfanview is another fee tool with very handy batch resizing facilities

MS Photo Premium 10 is part of MS Works Suite AFAIK - there are plenty of image editors out there, always worth nosing on the cover discs of PC magazines like PCPlus, PCW or Computer Shopper for give aways of slightly older versions of PaintShop Pro or Serif Image/Photo Stuff

Microsoft do an Image Resizer Powertoy if you're running XP.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

Thanks for that Geoff - I think it will solve a problem we've been having at work. It's certainly easier than what we've been using recently.

Don't know whether anyone can help - my old PC came with Microsoft Photo Editor which I actually quite liked for doing some of the more basic stuff with photos. My new PC doesn't have it and I'm missing it as the photo-editing software I have is pain in the @rse - if I crop a photo' date=' it doesn't then let me save as a JPEG. So, anyone know how/where I can get a copy of MS Photo Editor?

Also, anyone know of software that will run through an entire directory creating a reduced size copy of each image in it?

Thanks for any help :-)[/quote']

Worth going to the add/remove software section of the control panel, as new versions of Windows have come about, programs/utilities included in older versions often are not installed by default but can be actually on the CD-Rom, although I think MS Photo Editor may have been part of the old Office 97 package rather than Windows. ALthough I have always mainly used Photoshop, I used to use MS Photo Editor for some simple tasks just because it was quick to load up.

Yeah Photo Editor is part of the Office Suite of products AFAIK don't think it goes on as default in all installations so if u've got office you might wanna whack the CD in to install it

Sadly it is not part of Office 2003 pro, but as I had it, it must have been in an earlier version. I have had it on a PC here in NI so that riules out Office 95. I think Office 97 is most likely but I have used all later versions (2000 and XP) between now and Office 2003 so it could possibly still be on the 2000 or XP versions disk.

Weird, I have Office 1997 but doesn't seem to be on it. Although maybe it's on the other CD which appears to have gone walkies. Anyway, I did a more thorough search on google and managed to download it so I'm a happy bunny now :-)

Glad you found it.

The Photo Editor application fits on a floppy, and will run stand-alone so you don't need to fart about with registry entries, etc. You can put in menu shortcuts manually if you need to. I can email you the application as a zip file if you really can't bear to be without it (I can't! - I hate PhotoDraw etc.) It works OK on Windows 2000, so it ought to be OK on XP...

PM me if you want a copy...

Oh, didn't see that you'd already found it. Never mind...!

Just beware with the powertoys thing - I have found it does horrible quality jpegs.

If I'm in a hurry, I use mihov's image resizer. Works rather well and you can view pics in the app, etc...

MS Photo Editor is part of Office 2000 but isn't installed if you go for the "standard" install. You have to customise the install and tick the box to install that. It's in the Office Tools section IIRC.

Oh, and one other thing about MSPE is that it's quite buggy (at least the version I have with office 2k). It won't rotate custom angles, and sometimes you can "lose" it off the screen. There are a couple of registry fixes to sort it out.

The Photo Editor application fits on a floppy' date=' and will run stand-alone so you don't need to fart about with registry entries, etc. You can put in menu shortcuts manually if you need to. I can email you the application as a zip file if you really can't bear to be without it (I can't! - I hate PhotoDraw etc.) It works OK on Windows 2000, so it ought to be OK on XP...

PM me if you want a copy...

Oh, didn't see that you'd already found it. Never mind...! [/quote']

Thanks anyway. Was very surprised how small it was - about 10-15 seconds to download!