Description
Long-term Windows use accumulates small daily irritations: windows that will not line up, batch renaming that needs a third-party tool, hunting for a file through Explorer. PowerToys is Microsoft's own patch kit — one install adds a dozen-plus utilities that fill in the efficiency features the system lacks.
Made by Microsoft, open-source and free, for Windows 10 and 11.
FancyZones window layouts: define screen zones and dragged windows snap into the grid, so large and multi-monitor setups stop needing manual alignment.
PowerToys Run: a hotkey opens a search box where a few letters launch a program, open a file or evaluate a calculation, without returning to the desktop.
PowerRename: batch rename by rule from the Explorer context menu, with regular expressions and a live preview.
Text extraction and colour picker: OCR text straight off any region of the screen, and sample the colour value of any pixel — useful for documents and design alike.
More utilities: always-on-top, bulk image resizing, keyboard remapping, mouse locator and richer file previews, each toggled on or off independently.
Made by Microsoft, open-source and free, for Windows 10 and 11.
Features
FancyZones window layouts: define screen zones and dragged windows snap into the grid, so large and multi-monitor setups stop needing manual alignment.
PowerToys Run: a hotkey opens a search box where a few letters launch a program, open a file or evaluate a calculation, without returning to the desktop.
PowerRename: batch rename by rule from the Explorer context menu, with regular expressions and a live preview.
Text extraction and colour picker: OCR text straight off any region of the screen, and sample the colour value of any pixel — useful for documents and design alike.
More utilities: always-on-top, bulk image resizing, keyboard remapping, mouse locator and richer file previews, each toggled on or off independently.
