Microsoft's new open-source project
Microsoft PowerToys is a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for higher productivity - Microsoft
This project is aimed to boost productivity among the power users of the Windows platform. The most exciting thing I found using this particular tool is that it lets me configure custom tiling.
After seeing that feature, I was tempted to try it, and it's great. Props to Microsoft for making this tool, It has a lot of many features - listed down below.
Some prominent utilities
- FancyZones - With a custom layout 🙌
FancyZones is a window manager that is designed to make it easy to arrange and snap windows into efficient layouts for your workflow and also to restore these layouts quickly. - Microsoft
- Keyboard Manager
Custom global keymapping, remapping shortcuts, orphaning keys
- PowerToys Run
Spotlight - like search and launcher utility
Inline calculator - I love this. ❤️❤️❤️
Other utilities
- Image resizer
- PowerRename
- File Explorer Add-ons (Preview Panes)
The utilities mentioned above do batch image resizing, batch renaming — and an exciting feature added to the file explorer which lets you preview images, files etc.
Personal recommendation
Coming from Linux, I've been using tiling window managers for a decent amount of time. I thought to submit a recommendation (which got accepted by the team) of adding the ability to tie launch commands to certain keybinds manually.
For example, Win + W would launch your default web browser
Launch commands with keystrokes: i.e Default Web Browser
#5098
Summary of the new feature/enhancement
Web browsers are used a lot, maybe add a special shortcut keybind for it?
Proposed technical implementation details (optional)
Pressing Win + W should launch the default web browser
Feel free to contribute to the project by code or ideas and recommendations.
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PowerToys
Microsoft PowerToys is a collection of utilities that supercharge productivity and customization on Windows
Microsoft PowerToys
Microsoft PowerToys is a collection of utilities that help you customize Windows and streamline everyday tasks.
🔨 Utilities
PowerToys includes over 30 utilities to help you customize and optimize your Windows experience:
Advanced Paste
Always on Top
Awake
Color Picker
Command Not Found
Command Palette
Crop And Lock
Environment Variables
FancyZones
File Explorer Add-ons
File Locksmith
Grab And Move
Hosts File Editor
Image Resizer
Keyboard Manager
Light Switch
Mouse Utilities
Mouse Without Borders
New+
Peek
PowerDisplay
PowerRename
PowerToys Run
Quick Accent
Registry Preview
Screen Ruler
Shortcut Guide
Text Extractor
Workspaces
ZoomIt📦 Installation
For detailed installation instructions and system requirements, visit the installation docs.
But to get started quickly, choose one of the installation methods below:
Download the .exe file from GitHub
Go to the PowerToys GitHub releases, scroll down and select Assets to reveal the installation files…
Have a great day! 💙💙
Top comments (2)
Awesome project!
Yep, pretty handy!