Repairing the Image Resizer in Windows XP

Thu, 2005-08-04 16:08 — Barry

Recently I ran into a problem with the Image Resize Utility that comes with Windows XP. I believe that the problem stems from installation of one of the components in Office XP (or the first two service packs for it.) Anyway, basically the Image Resize Utility quit working entirely, no more resizing images on the fly when using the Send To Mail Recipient option.
So I hopped on Google and proceeded to run some searches. Nothing useful. So I tried Microsoft. The best option I could find was an updated Image Resizer Utility that added the ability to resize images to the hard drive, both singly and in groups, plus the original mail options. So I thought maybe the program had gone corrupt and installed the updated version. (By the way, I recommend the upgrade, and check out the other Power Toys while your there.)
Still nothing. Then I played with some settings in the File Types tab, and cleared and rechecked some boxes in some of the various graphics programs I use. This time I got lucky and the bmp's started working. That's when I decided to check the bmp class in the registry and compare to some of the other file types. There were at least four keys listed under bmp that weren't present with any other file types, so I started adding the keys one by one to the jpg class. I found that the following key added to the registry restores the Resize Utility to working order for jpg files.
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jpg]
"PerceivedType"="image"
"Content Type"="image/jpg"
Technically, the Content Type line isn't needed, but I figured it may save me some hassle later just having it in there. After that, I wrote a short registry file in Notepad, saved it and changed the extension to reg. Feel free to download the registry update, then change the file extension from txt to reg. You'll have to right click and save the file to your desktop. If you download the text file, don't forget to rename it to resize.reg once you've reviewed it. (Both files are available below.) Then double-click the file to add it to your registry. This particular registry add-in will make it possible to resize files in the following formats: bmp, gif, ico, jpg, jpe, jfif, png, tif, and tiff.

Attachment	Size
resize_reg.txt	851 bytes
resize.reg	851 bytes

Comments

Mon, 2008-04-28 16:32 — Anonymous (not verified)

image resizer

Thanks for the tip. I had the same issue and now the image resizer works great.

Fri, 2008-04-25 17:42 — Londoner (not verified)

Great stuff. worked first

Great stuff. worked first time like a charm, saved me a big headache !! :)

Sat, 2008-04-12 15:24 — Technophobe (not verified)

Thanks ... now my husband

Thanks ... now my husband will stop nagging me

Wed, 2008-04-02 08:51 — Fergus (not verified)

It works... Great, thank

It works... Great, thank you.

Sun, 2008-03-09 09:37 — lars53 (not verified)

Power Toys resizer fix

Big thank you is in order.
I had a recent crash and had to recover my system. I reinstalled the resizer power toy but it no longer functioned.
Your fix to the registry did the trick. I use resizer often and it's good to have it back. Thanks

Tue, 2008-02-05 14:02 — Steve V (not verified)

Wow Thank you!

We encountered the image resizer problem after upgrading to office 2007. The reg fix worked here as well.
Very easy, just download the .reg file, then double click, answer yes to making the changes and done. No reboot required, works perfectly.
Using XP Office O/S - We also had a Vista machine, sorry no luck there. We fixed it by going back to XP - one problem of many were corrected by removing Vista.
Thanks again!

Sat, 2008-01-05 05:09 — Douglas (not verified)

resize

a huge thank you from me - and my family - as I have just cheered up.
well that took 3 seconds and there I was about to re-install windows!
by the way mine broke after i uninstalled some stuff in the add / remove progs window - including Office 2000 which Microsoft advised I kept when I installed Office 2003 if I remember rightly.
thanks again, Douglas

Fri, 2008-01-04 05:51 — Anonymous (not verified)

thankyou mine now working

thankyou mine now working again

Thu, 2007-12-13 13:06 — Anonymous (not verified)

Resizer fix

Thanks very much! My image resizer stopped working right after I upgraded to Office 2003.

Wed, 2007-12-12 13:24 — Steve (not verified)

Thanks

Thanks, this tip repaired my XP powertoy that I use a lot. Good post!

Wed, 2007-11-28 06:43 — Koray (not verified)

İt works

Hi,
Thank you for the reg fix.It fixed my problems :)

Tue, 2007-11-13 12:34 — Mark (not verified)

RESIZER NOT WORKING STILL! but strange happening!

Ok I ran everything like told.

BUT

The image resizer only works in windows and picture viewer on an individual photo. SO i can technically resize- but only in windows viewer, not in my pictures

Sat, 2007-11-17 13:26 — Barry

Odd...

Does the resizer come up when you right-click and click "Send To > Mail Recipient"? If it does, then resizer is probably working more like it does in the default XP install. If not, then you may have a bigger (and stranger) problem.

Have you installed the Microsoft Image Resizer Powertoy? If not, I would recommend installing it, and giving it another go. Available from Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

Wed, 2007-11-07 09:59 — Mike (not verified)

MS Image Resizer Fix

This has bee driving me nuts for ages and I decided to see if anyone had found a solution. How ironic that another MS application is breaking their own resizer.

Thank you for sharing this fix.

Tue, 2007-11-06 00:56 — Sudan (not verified)

Thanks so much! its working

Thanks so much! its working just fine!

Thu, 2007-10-25 18:17 — Eguin (not verified)

Thanx

Really a good solution, my friend took 2 weeks for resize her pictures and nothing happened with image resizer, with your small file we fix the problem, GREAT,
and thank you so much Barry, her daughter now recieved the 2,500 pictures of her mother and she's happpy to watch her every day, while they are thousands of miles far,
REALLY TAHNK YOU for share your solution.
Eguin

Fri, 2007-10-19 12:40 — Anonymous (not verified)

Gracias totales

Barry:

Muy util. Es exactamente el tipo de ayuda que sirve. Se agradece.

Bernardo

Mon, 2007-10-01 14:06 — Carl (not verified)

THANK YOU!

Wow! This is exactly why I love the Internet (& google & you!)...

Fri, 2007-08-03 20:29 — Shawn Jenei (not verified)

Thanks Barry!!!! Works GREAT!!!

Thanks Barry!!!! Works GREAT!!! You just save me hours of work trying to figure out what's wrong or resizing images one by one!!!!! Thanks again!!!

Mon, 2007-06-25 02:30 — Tommy (not verified)

Hi Barry,

Hi Barry,
I Want To Change The Custom Default Setting From
1200 by 1024 To An Other Like 2024 by 1600, So That I Have Not
Always To Type It.
Can You Help ? ? ? ?

Thank You

Mon, 2007-06-25 12:45 — Barry

Default resize dimensions

Sorry, to my knowledge the default custom size is hard-coded into the program.

Tue, 2007-06-19 13:58 — Crystal (not verified)

I had done a new install of

I had done a new install of the image resizer power tool. I have no clue why it would not resize my JPEG. So I ran this fix and it fixed it!!!!!!
So thanks a lot.
There must be an issue with the installation of this power tool.

Tue, 2007-06-05 12:40 — Anonymous (not verified)

Great solution

Thanks for that solution. It had me frustrated, because Resizer is such a useful utility.

Eamon

Tue, 2007-06-12 14:48 — Anonymous (not verified)

Thanks for the fix -

Thanks for the fix - fantastic!

Sat, 2007-05-19 10:18 — roamingcaver (not verified)

Ha! Worked like a charm.

Ha! Worked like a charm. Thank you much.

Sat, 2007-05-12 12:32 — Anonymous (not verified)

registry settings there, still not working

In my case, with I right click I do not see the resize image option even appear. I tried reinstalling the image resizer which says success. I tried the regsvr32 shimgvw.dll, and I looked at my registry settings (they were already set correctly).

Any other ideas?

Sat, 2007-05-12 14:24 — Barry