Dropresize

Dropresize is a lightweight Windows utility that allows you to resize images by simply dragging, copying or moving them to a monitored folder.
The idea behind this program is pretty simple and can clearly come in very handy to many users out there. Dropresize requires you to define a so-called “watched folder”, which is actually a location on your hard disks that's continuously monitored by the app.
Every time you copy a new image file to this folder, Dropresize automatically resizes it, of course, based on your very own resizing parameters.
The configuration screen allows you to choose the size of the new image, but also the resizing method, with available options including high quality bicubic, standard bicubic and nearest neighbor to prevent hard edges.
You can also input a prefix and a sufix for a the resized file, but also adjust JPEG quality and even create a backup of the processed items.
Dropresize can launch a program after resizing and also process subfolders. All these options are available in the configuration screen, easily accessible via the System Tray icon.
The program doesn't affect the overall system stability in any way and it runs smoothly on all Windows versions, without the need for administrator privileges on Windows 7 workstations.
To sum up all of the above, Dropresize is clearly a handy product that runs on very low resources and takes care of your pictures in a very simple and effective way. The process is usually performed instantly, but this also depends on the overall number of photos selected by the user.