What is Microsoft PowerToys?
Microsoft PowerToys is a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity. Inspired by the 
Windows 95 era PowerToys project, this reboot provides power users with ways to squeeze more efficiency out of the Windows 10 shell and customize it for individual workflows.
Current PowerToy Utilities
FancyZones
FancyZones is a window manager that makes it easy to create complex window layouts and quickly position windows into those layouts.
Shortcut Guide
The shortcut guide appears when a user holds the Windows key down for more than one second and shows the available shortcuts for the current state of the desktop.
PowerRename
PowerRename is a Windows Shell Extension for advanced bulk renaming using search and replace or regular expressions. PowerRename allows simple search and replace or more advanced regular expression matching. While you type in the search and replace input fields, the preview area will show what the items will be renamed to. PowerRename then calls into the Windows Explorer file operations engine to perform the rename. This has the benefit of allowing the rename operation to be undone after PowerRename exits.
File Explorer (Preview Panes)
File Explorer add-ons right now are just limited to Preview Pane additions for File Explorer. Preview Pane is an existing feature in the File Explorer. To enable it, you just click the View tab in the ribbon and then click "Preview Pane".
Image Resizer
Image Resizer is a Windows Shell Extension for quickly resizing images. With a simple right click from File Explorer, resize one or many images instantly.
Window Walker (Text based alt-tab alternative)
Window Walker is an app that lets you search and switch between windows that you have open, all from the comfort of your keyboard. As you are searching for an app, you can use the keyboard up and down arrows to see an Alt-Tab style preview of the windows.
Windows 95 era PowerToys project, this reboot provides power users with ways to squeeze more efficiency out of the Windows 10 shell and customize it for individual workflows.Current PowerToy Utilities
FancyZones
FancyZones is a window manager that makes it easy to create complex window layouts and quickly position windows into those layouts.
Shortcut Guide
The shortcut guide appears when a user holds the Windows key down for more than one second and shows the available shortcuts for the current state of the desktop.
PowerRename
PowerRename is a Windows Shell Extension for advanced bulk renaming using search and replace or regular expressions. PowerRename allows simple search and replace or more advanced regular expression matching. While you type in the search and replace input fields, the preview area will show what the items will be renamed to. PowerRename then calls into the Windows Explorer file operations engine to perform the rename. This has the benefit of allowing the rename operation to be undone after PowerRename exits.
File Explorer (Preview Panes)
File Explorer add-ons right now are just limited to Preview Pane additions for File Explorer. Preview Pane is an existing feature in the File Explorer. To enable it, you just click the View tab in the ribbon and then click "Preview Pane".
Image Resizer
Image Resizer is a Windows Shell Extension for quickly resizing images. With a simple right click from File Explorer, resize one or many images instantly.
Window Walker (Text based alt-tab alternative)
Window Walker is an app that lets you search and switch between windows that you have open, all from the comfort of your keyboard. As you are searching for an app, you can use the keyboard up and down arrows to see an Alt-Tab style preview of the windows.
Recent user activities on Microsoft PowerToys
- opensourcetap liked Microsoft PowerToys
- anistoyanovaas thinks FancyWM is an alternative to Microsoft PowerToys
- kikigaro thinks FancyWM is an alternative to Microsoft PowerToys
Powertoys provides a good Windows Manager (i.e. Fancy Zones) alternative to Windows Grid that was not updated for monthes. This tool is pretty cpu/memory efficient also.
a MUST have for any power user
It's very powerful. Great graphics and useful tools, but I would like a bit more features on it.
Love this little tool. Add a lot of powerful features, that should be actually integrated on windows. PowerToys Run is my favorite, a file finder that uses Wox, but Color Picker and FancyZonez are also highly recommended
Just saw it but not actually tried it. It includes several piece of software. I possibly will install to only use Fancy Zones. Image resizer's feature is weaker than HoneyView. Keyboard Manager looks promising as it can customize simple shortcuts visually which won't make me learn AutoHotKey again every time I need customization. PowerRename seems weaker than QTTabbar. PowerToys Run looks not so customizable compared to other application launchers at the moment. In all, they still need major improvement. Maybe will become an option for "hardcore" users in 2 years.
FancyZones is awesome! (some GUI issues on the PT-BR localization)
-Currently alpha state (tons of issues)
-Built-in MS traditional telemetry
-Requirements Windows 10 1803 (build 17134) or later
-High resource usage
I recently discovered the Powertoys.
The PowerRename is very useful as well as the FancyZone !
I'm going to get to know it but I already love it !