This App Makes WINDOWS So Much Better!

Why the folks at Microsoft refuse to make at least some of these utilities available natively in Windows is beyond me.

But, PowerToys is a set of utilities that will make you feel like you’re using a better version of Windows.

Once you install them, I guarantee you’ll soon have your own little set of favorites that you just won’t be able to live without.

Chapters:

0:00 PowerToys
0:31 Crop and Lock
2:18 Always on Top
2:50 File Locksmith
3:28 Game
4:03 Mouse Utilities
4:56 Peek
5:28 Text Extractor
6:13 Paste As Plain Text
6:50 Quick Accent
7:13 PowerRename
8:29 Awake

[Soguwe]

With crop and lock, you can just crop the media controls of your preferred music streaming app and always have them on top of the display
Very useful

[redbeard_raccoon]

Crop and Lock is particularly handy for applications that don't take advantage of Dark Theme, so you can have content from an application without being blinded.
For instance, I use it for my secondary monitor which has an ONVIF camera, but the application I'm using for my camera ONLY has white background.

[larsiparsii]

Found out about it a week ago when I needed some widths of something on screen. It has a lot of features, and not having to resolve to 3rd party programs for a colour picker, etc. is so nice

[ryanasazaki]

The Quick Accent is such a handy feature for writers like me who dealt with a lot of transliterations of languages that needed those accented glyphs while still in the English keyboard, such as pinyin or romaji for Mandarin and Japanese respectively. More OS needed that!
In older operating systems, I'll either have to copy the accented glyphs one-by-one off from a unicode website, or I'll have to use weird shortcut key combination to get those if it's even supported.

[YuJay]

I like the Crop and Lock, Extract Text, Paste as Plain text and File Lock smith. Crop and Lock will be very hand for Streaming when you want to crop a specific part of a program to place on OBS.

[Pepsolenel]

The accent one should have been available for decades! I hope they make it native to windows when it comes out of beta!

[unclecomrade_yt]

I'm using it for the long time now. My favorite is Run. It eliminated the need for desktop icons for me. It's not like they were that usual to me anyway, as when I needed to launch another application, it was from within another application or applications grouped.

[triki-beats]

bro !!! Im litterally going to cry :(
You just ended the pain that I used to live for my 1 year of work:
- crop a window
- always on top
- modify a portion of the name of multiple files.
- paste without formatting
- text extracting from images

I deal with a massive number of log files including .dlt, .log, .dat, .pcap and i need to organize them with a specific naming pattern.
I run testcases using automation server, so i need to monitor a small portion of a window and make it always on top.
I use calculator in programmer mode and it dosent support always on top.
Sometimes, a team mate sends me a screen shot with a long log line, so i need to write it all :(

I follow this channel since 4 years, and i always learn from it, THANK YOU :)

[dacueba-games]

Great video! Some of these are very useful.

[servus]

For me the advanced Windowssizer is a gamechanger, espacialy when you use a 21:9 screen vertical like me.

[adfinemrising]

some of these things actually use system resources (like cpu and memory) in a noticeable manner. it's probably why it's not on the default install of windows. although i wish they can be in it, separately (and not all in one). coz it causes lag on low end PCs

[microsoftsarker]

very informative video Bro. Many many Thanks

[internetexplorer]

As a developer, the SVG preview tool is also a good tool

[CensoredByYouTube.]

You know what would really make Windows *So* Much Better? Being able to have two directories open side-by-side in a File Explorer window... like we could with XTree in *DOS* 30+ years ago.

[Dataanti]

kind of suprised the find my mouse thing even exists in power tools. ive known about this setting since windows XP, its usually just in the pointer options, same place where you can set windows to leave a mouse trail

[alexzendermarunsai]

Crop and lock can be useful if you want to overlay specific part of your apps/screen in OBS.

[banml]

quick accent and always on top display are the best things i have found yet man

[maverickbonato]

The file locksmith bro... I had so many times things I had absolutely no idea where they were open and that didn't let me do anything with them, made me go crazy and just unplug my pc one time, wish I knew this sooner xD

[AhmedDawoud]

The power rename is way more useful than what you showed, you can go more in-depth with the regex and choose only numbers to be changed or certain characters or a set of ones

[AmadeusMoon]

1:26 The crop and lock i actually find really useful when I am reading documentation I do not need to see the ads and comments and what not and have a huge window when I am only reading 1/3 of its size.