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PowerToys are additional programs that developers work on after a product has been released to manufacturing. Find out about PowerToys for Windows XP Professional.

Color Control Panel Applet - This tool helps you manage Windows color settings in one place.

SyncToy - can help you copy, move, and synchronize different directories. RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer - This tool provides thumbnails, previews, printing, and metadata display for RAW images. ClearType Tuner - This lets you use new technology to make it easier to read text on your screen, and installs in the Control Panel for easy access. HTML Slide Show Wizard - Helps you create an HTML slide show of your digital pictures, ready to place on your Web site. Open Command Window Here - adds an "Open Command Window Here" context menu option on file system folders, giving you a quick way to open a command window (cmd.exe) . Alt-Tab Replacement - With this, in addition to seeing the icon of the application window you are switching to, you will also see a preview of the page. Tweak UI - gives you access to system settings that are not exposed in the Windows XP default user interface, including mouse settings, Explorer settings, taskbar settings, and more. Power Calculator - can graph and evaluate functions as well as perform many different types of conversions.

Image Resizer - enables you to resize one or many image files with a right-click.

CD Slide Show Generator - can view images burned to a CD as a slide show.

Virtual Desktop Manager - up to four desktops from the Windows taskbar with this PowerToy.

Taskbar Magnifier - Use this to magnify part of the screen from the taskbar. Webcam Timershot - lets you take pictures at specified time intervals from a Webcam connected to your computer and save them to a location that you designate.