Cool Free Windows Utilities to Use EVERYDAY | PowerToys
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Dive into the world of Microsoft PowerToys, a set of professional tools designed to boost your productivity in Windows. This video is a comprehensive guide to PowerToys, showcasing its various free utilities and how they can enhance your Windows experience.
✨ Key Highlights:
▪️ Always on Top: Learn how to pin any window to stay always on top.
▪️ Awake: Keep your computer from sleeping during important tasks.
▪️ Text Extractor: Copy text from anywhere on your screen easily.
▪️ Mouse Utilities: Discover useful features like 'Find My Mouse' and 'Mouse Highlighter'.
▪️ Run/App Launcher: Quickly launch apps with a simple shortcut.
▪️ Screen Ruler: Measure pixels on your screen for precise image work.
▪️ Global Color Picker: Pick and use colors from anywhere on your screen.
▪️ Image Resizer: Resize multiple images at once with ease.
▪️ Fancy Zones: Customize your screen layout for multitasking.
▪️ More PowerToys: Explore additional tools like Keyboard Manager, PowerRename, Quick Accent, and Shortcut Guide.
With PowerToys you get a set of free AND super useful tools and utilities for customizing Windows. These free apps work with both Windows 10 and Windows 11.
They are designed to improve your Windows experience and give you additional functionality that Windows currently lacks.
PowerToys is free to download and use on Windows 10 and 11 PCs.
00:00 Microsoft PowerToys
00:59 How to Download and Install PowerToys
01:50 Always on Top
02:33 Awake
03:37 Text Extractor
04:22 Mouse Utilities
05:25 Run | App Launcher
05:38 Screen Ruler - Measure Pixels
06:14 Global Color Picker
07:20 Image Resizer
08:40 FancyZones - Custom Screen Regions
11:05 More PowerToys
11:31 Shortcut Guide
12:03 Wrap Up
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Hi, Hope you are feeling better now..
Great tools. Thank you and take care of yourself.
Thanks a lot and Hope you're fine
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Hope you are feeling better - everything sounded fine!
This should be by default on Windows !
But it's not...I bought a new laptop with windows 11 and still needed to download it.
You have this in KDE, Gnome, Cinnamon since ages.
It will be...in a couple of years
This is one of the most comprehensive PowerToys overviews I have seen. Thank you! I remember using it on Windows 95 and 98. It certainly has come a long way since then.
Thank you Craig.
This was an amazing presentation of something that has been hidden in plain sight!!
They actually abandoned it and only brought it back a couple years ago. It's on github now.
And it's still under construction
Great video. But they have some bugs in a few features. I hope they will fix them soon.
Great video - I use quite a few of these. Two other tips:
1) File Locksmith - checks which files are in use.. useful especially to see what is blocking a disk from being ejected or what files a process is locking.
2) Powertoys Run - has many uses. I use it to quickly launch apps and files, as a quick calculator, starting/stopping services, finding registry keys and more
The power renamer is also good but takes a bit of work to get into.
This is excellent to see. I had totally forgotten about PowerToys and used to have it as part of my standard toolkit back in the day. Thank you for such a great presentation on it overall, as well as going in depth on some of the most commonly used tools.
Thank you, Leila, for this in-depth tutorial. I've been using power toys for a while and am attempting to demonstrate them to coworkers. As I need to do a lot of online training, I use the Focus on the mouse the most. The list of shortcuts is one I was unaware of. I'm familiar with some of them, but this is such a creative way to present them. Thank you very much...
Only yesterday I was wishing for more windows snap areas and then this video came out. Thank you Leila. This is God sent
oh leila thank you so much. i read an article about this but suffice it to say this makes things much clearer! i have been scouring the internet for something like fancy zones and can't wait to try it. thanks for sharing!
I love utilities like this. I look forward to learning more about what it does.
Thank you for this simple explanation
Hi Leila. They are so much clearer when properly explained - thank you.
I wish she would have told us about the margin toggle switch with fancy zones. It took a while to turn them off. Thank you Leila! I appreciate all you do! I bought 3 of your MS Power courses!
Awesome! I used to use Deskpins to keep a window on top but will switch to this now.
WOW, that is amazing. I’m in need of few already. Thank you so much.
Brilliant & Thank You
Brilliant! Thank you!
Thanks! Can't wait to try
Thanks for this!
Fabulous! Didn't even know these existed. Love it when find new features. Already loving the 'Always on top'. Much appreciated for the video. Thank you.
Amazing video again, Leila. Thank you so much ❤
I was using fancy zones for awhile but boy did I miss a lot of useful stuff for many years. Thanks
Thank you for this!
Another excellent video - thank you!
Great Tool, Thanks for sharing I think Always on top and Bulk image resize will help me.
So glad you covered PowerToys, ever since I discovered it it's been an absolute *must* on any computer I use regularly! My favorite is definitely Fancy Zones, I'm the type of person who likes every window to have its place, but I'm far too impatient to set them manually every time!
I am glad that the PowerToys are back, at least I think they were taken away some years ago. I am definitely going to add them to my toolbox! Thanks Leila. Happy holidays!
Fantastic tools
Thanks Leila 😊
I have always loved power toys and they change how I use windows. Truthful I thought it had been discontinued. Thanks for showing the updated toys!
I used to use always on top exactly like you to keep my stickies where I can see them.
I have known about Powertoys for years. But I do not use them often. You explain their usefulness in a crystal clear way, calm and to the point. Thank you!
Thanks for this video , A lot of useful short cut keys were presented here
Really helpful!
Wow so many useful features! Thanks as always!!
Awesome!!! Thanks!
Thanks 🧡 a great sharing :)
Excelent set of tools, thanks for sharing!👍
Thank you for your videos about tools.
extremely grateful for this ! Obviously always on top is really helpful, but extracting text from photos excites me. People screenshot me daily and this will reduce my time significantly! Thank you for all you do!
Just wanted to say Thank you. I've been meaning to get into power toys for some time and I love how succinct and relevant you made it. Great job!
Awesome! Thank you!
exactly what I needed, thanks ❤
I am a data analyst and work on a 50 inch 4k TV as my monitor. It would be a huge pain if I didn't have Fancy Zones. It's so incredible! I have a bunch of different layouts that I can activate with hotkeys depending on what I'm working on.
Window Walker is quite useful. Helps me find out opened application. It's much quicker than win+tab or alt+tab when you have too many apps open.
Amazing! thank you
Thank you for making this video. All these tools are very useful.
My favorite power toy is using the Keyboard Manager to remap the F1-F12 keys to shortcuts.
You can find the customized keys file in the folder
%localappdata%\Microsoft\PowerToys\Keyboard Manager
The keyboard settings can be shared as a json file. You could save a settings file for each application, for example.
You can do this easily in Gnu Linux.
In settings you can designate shortcuts for every need you have.
Thank you for these!!
Your videos are so professional! Well done!
great tools, thanks
Great video,thanks
these are some great tools, thanks for sharing :)
One of my favorite tools is the samradapps excel date picker, which let's you pick up dates in an excel sheet. MS haven't added something like this for decades which I don't understand.
Some very useful ones Leila
Merci
Cool,loved it
I already used the Find my mouse in combination with the CTRL-radar, the Windows+V (multi-clipboard, the Paste as Text. I will probably use the Pick color and the Keep in front a lot! Thanks for the great presentation!
Thank you so much!! Never knew and now I do!!! :)
Win+Shift+T, didn't know. Thank you very much & Happy Christmas
Thanks for the share.
Another amazing instructional video as always, Leila! Thank you for making it and sharing these helpful tools. I was happy that my IT department authorized installing PowerToys and I'm sorry I didn't watch this one and ask them about it 6 months ago! Wow, so many favorites! Paste as Plain Text, Always on Top, Find My Mouse/Highlighter, Color Picker, and Zones are very handy to my work! Building new muscle-memory keystroke habits to activate them will be the key that allows me remove my newest PostIt note that's now affixed to my monitor haha. Thank you again for the excellent video.
Great content Leila! Like always!
I really enjoy your videos! Thanks for taking the time to share them!
Will be downloading this today!
Very useful, thanks Leila!
Brilliant thanks
Oh wow. Thanks for the informative video. I've been wishing for some of those features for years.
Loved this video - so many goodies with PowerToys
Wow! That was like being shown Aladdin's cave, full of treasures. I've already downloaded it and now tweaking it for what I need. Thank you so much for this - very useful indeed.
Glad you like it!
Terrific. I admit I've looked at powertoys every few years then forgot about them. But the current crop look really handy and I'm back on board with them. Thanks
Excellent!
Thank you for this..
Nice video power toys is a handy program but knowing it's features can be tough to figure out. A simple demo like your's really helps.. thanks you're on my subscribe list now that I've found you.
You had me at mouse finder (I literally needed that 5 minutes before I started this video) and fancy zones sealed the deal. Thanks for this.
Definitely trying!
thank you !!
Great! Thanks!!
Thank you very much
Some of these are pretty cool!!
I had no idea. This will change the way I work. ! Thank you
It was great, thank you Leila
Wow thanks!
loved this.
Personal fave is definitely fancyzones! Thanks so much @Leila!
THANK YOU.
This is very useful. Thanks!
excellent video!!. I'm sold.
Thanks 👍
That's an amazing video. Thank you for your effort.
It should be noted that if you install Power Toys, it will significantly increase your boot time at start-up.
For me, it added 24 seconds from power on to Windows Desktop screen.
I don't really use that much but will keep the software for future use. Thanks
Well don’t have it run on startup then.
@@oo0Spyder0oo Nope, not now. It's set up to do that by default.
Thanks!
Excellent one
Thanks for the informative video Ms. Leila.. 🙂
The Zone one is pretty neat thanks
Those are interesting utilities. Thanks for posting. Feel better soon and Happy Holidays.
Thank you! Same to you!
thanks so much
You are genius Leila Gharani. I appreciated your tips for windows and other application programs.
Thank you Leila.
You made my life so easier, always on top was something i needed for a long time. Thank you very much
Glad I could help!
Great content, I will sure give it a try
Thank you for thin video 👌🏻
Obrigado!
That's amazing I should try this 👍
GREAT summary. All appear incredibly useful. THANK YOU!
Glad you enjoyed it!