Go get all the open source PowerToys here It's absolutely essential for large monitors and once you get used it to you'll be hooked.

You may a layout or layouts and then shift drag your windows to a zone and they pop/snap into place. You likely have a limited number of things you do with your machine - believe it or not - and you likely find yourself in a finite number of 'layouts.' You likely do this naturally but you're wasting time getting your windows into those configurations.įancyZones solves all that. That means it helps you MOVE AND SNAP your windows to known regions, which is way easier than MOVE AND ENDLESSLY FIDDLE WITH your windows. I'll do other blog posts on the other awesome apps and applets, but FancyZones is special.įancyZone is a Windowing Manager for Windows, ahem. You can download and install it from releases.įancyZones is one of the highlights of PowerToys. It's a few months later and PowerToys is getting even better. Just hold the key you want to add an accent to until you see a popup, then use the arrow keys to choose which accent you want to add to the character.Last year Microsoft rebooted PowerToys and it's open source and on GitHub. Quick Accent makes it easier for Windows users to add accents to any letter, which is great for typing in languages like French and Spanish.Screen Ruler allows you to quickly measure how many pixels a given area of the screen takes up.Just click the handy coffee cup icon in your tray and you can choose whether to keep your computer awake indefinitely or for a set amount of time. Awake can temporarily keep your computer from falling asleep.You can customize the sizes, if you want, as well as what file format images are resized to.

Image Resizer can resize any picture in just a couple of clicks-right-click any image file, or multiple image files, in Windows Explorer, then click Resize pictures.

Use a keyboard shortcut to select text inside an image, and it’ll be copied to your clipboard.

Text Extractor allows you to copy text from any image.

The collection has grown massively since then, and also works on Windows 11, meaning there are a bunch more PowerToys that are extremely useful and worth a quick mention. Microsoft brought back PowerToys in 2019 with just a couple of tools. More Microsoft PowerToys you should check out

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