9 Aweasome Productivity Tools for Windows Users

PowerToys Run utility

PowerToys Run is a quick launcher for power users that contains some additional features without sacrificing performance. It is open source and modular for additional plugins.

Color Picker utility

A system-wide color picking utility for Windows 10 that enables you to pick colors from any currently running application and automatically copies it in a configurable format to your clipboard.

FancyZones utility

FancyZones is a window manager utility for arranging and snapping windows into efficient layouts to improve the speed of your workflow and restore layouts quickly. FancyZones allows the user to define a set of window locations for a desktop that are drag targets for windows. When the user drags a window into a zone, the window is resized and repositioned to fill that zone.

File Explorer add-ons utility(svg & markdown)

File Explorer add-ons currently include:

• Preview Pane rendering of SVG icons (.svg)
• Preview Pane rendering of Markdown files (.md)

Keyboard Manager utility

The PowerToys Keyboard Manager enables you to redefine keys on your keyboard.

Image Resizer utility

Image Resizer is a Windows shell extension for bulk image-resizing. After installing PowerToys, right-click on one or more selected image files in File Explorer, and then select Resize pictures from the menu.

PowerRename utility

PowerRename is a bulk renaming tool that enables you to:

• Modify the file names of a large number of files (without renaming all of the files the same name).
• Perform a search and replace on a targeted section of file names.
• Perform a regular expression rename on multiple files.
• Check expected rename results in a preview window before finalizing a bulk rename.
• Undo a rename operation after it is completed.

Windows key shortcut guide

Video Conference Mute (Preview)

Quickly mute your microphone (audio) and turn off your camera (video) while on a conference call with a single keystroke, regardless of what application has focus on your computer.

>>> Installing and Running

Via GitHub with EXE

Install from the Microsoft PowerToys GitHub releases page. Click on Assets to show the files available in the release and then click on PowerToysSetup-0.31.1-x64.exe to download the PowerToys installer.

Via WinGet (Preview)

Download PowerToys from WinGet. To install PowerToys, run the following command from the command line / PowerShell:

WinGet install powertoys

Other install methods

There are community driven install methods such as Chocolatey and Scoop. If these are your preferred install solutions, this will have the install instructions.