Cool Free Windows Utilities to Use EVERYDAY | PowerToys

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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[LeilaGharani]

I hope you don't mind the hoarse voice 🙂. I had a cold in that week.

[cwcole]

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.

[dominiqueleroy]

This should be by default on Windows !

[jonasfermefors]

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.

[uuoocl]

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

Manager

The keyboard settings can be shared as a json file. You could save a settings file for each application, for example.

[IsaSoandso]

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.

[wrockage]

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!

[bcwest]

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.

[rvk]

OMG. I have been using 3rd party apps for all these features. You gave me a single solution for all these. Really helpful. Thanks

[Shri_V]

Awesome! I used to use Deskpins to keep a window on top but will switch to this now.

[triplex]

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.

[faradraissa]

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...

[darkguardian]

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

[vijayarjunwadkar]

Never knew these PowerToys! Thank you Leila for this quick tutorial to get started! 🙂I will use them now on.

[supinderbabra]

Only yesterday I was wishing for more windows snap areas and then this video came out. Thank you Leila. This is God sent

[PatrickKalinowski]

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!

[Haulin]

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!

[PaulNemchik]

Thanks for this video, A lot of useful short cut keys were presented here

[terryherrin]

Thank you so much!! Never knew and now I do!!! :)

[thomaspc]

I love utilities like this. I look forward to learning more about what it does.