I came across this yesterday and I tried it out and it works wonderfuly. I dont see how image resizing can be any easier.
Windows XP Power Toys
Click on the above link and find the download link for the
Image Resizer Linked here for easy acccess
Click to download Image Resizer
Install this on your computer and when you rightclick on an image you will see a menu option to resize it.
Then pick what size you want your image. I have selected Large here.
There are some additional options if you pick custom
You can select multiple photos by highlighting them in the MyComputer window first and then right clicking on the selection. This will cause the image resizer to resize all the selected images in a batch. You can in theory resize hundreds of images in seconds (depending on your computers speed).
You can pick custom and type in a smaller value than one thats predefined but I would not pick anything larger than "Large" if your going to be sharing it on the web for others to view.
The "Make images smaller but not larger" is a good one to check as that will keep the system from upsizing an image. Often upsizing will cause image distortion. The program does not overright the orig file unless you specify for it to do so. It will instead add a tag on the end of the file name like this.
In the above pic I did a batch resize on 10 images and resized them to the predefined Large setting in less than 10seconds with the windows resizer tool. Of course the resized images can be renamed to anything you want or your orig image can be named what ever you want and when its resized it will just have its name changed to something like "Imagename (size).jpg" where size is either the predefined size in the image resizer or if you did custom it wil say (Custom).
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