microsoft/PowerToys
Microsoft PowerToys is a collection of utilities that supercharge productivity and customization on Windows
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Microsoft PowerToys Microsoft PowerToys is a collection of utilities that help you customize Windows and streamline everyday tasks. Installation · Documentation · Blog · Release notes PowerToys includes over 30 utilities to help you customize and optimize your Windows experience: 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, and choose the one that matches your architecture and install scope. For most devices, that would be x64 per-user. Microsoft Store You can easily install PowerToys from the Microsoft Store: WinGet Download PowerToys from WinGet. Updating PowerToys via winget will respect the current PowerToys installation scope. To install PowerToys, run the following command from the command line / PowerShell: Other methods There are community driven…
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- 🔨 Utilities
- 📦 Installation
- ✨ What's new?
- 🛣️ Roadmap
- ❤️ PowerToys Community
- Contributing
- Code of conduct
- Privacy statement
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What this repository does
Microsoft PowerToys is a collection of utilities that supercharge productivity and customization on Windows
Repository facts
- Owner
- microsoft
- Primary language
- C
- Stars
- 140,326
- Forks
- 8,680
- Open issues + pull requests
- 7,945
- License
- MIT
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2019-05-01T17:44:02.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-31T06:34:46.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: advanced-paste, color-picker, command-palette, desktop, fancyzones, keyboard-manager, microsoft-powertoys, powerrename, powertoys, windows, windows-10, windows-11
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