The FancyZones window manager, which is like Snap Assist on steroids, allows you to setup custom windows layouts and easily snap windows into different zones. Click on the icon to open the PowerToys Settings window. That is because PowerToys runs in the background and will only display an icon in the system tray by the clock. You may not see a window pop up upon hitting finish. It is important to automatically start PowerToys at logon to take advantage of FancyZones and the shortcut guide.Īfter PowerToys is installed, ensure Launch PowerToys is checked and hit Finish. Next, confirm the destination folder and shortcut and startup options before hitting Next. Once downloaded, run PowerToysSetup.msi, hit next and accept the license agreement. Just click on the release version title and download PowerToysSetup.msi. The latest version of the Windows 10 PowerToys can be downloaded from the public Microsoft PowerToys repo directly at. The second utility is a useful keyboard shortcut guide that is available on demand to help identify shortcuts to make your more productive. Instead of just a few options and locations to "snap" your windows, FancyZones allows you to define custom layouts. The first is called FancyZones which is a window layout manager that builds upon the Snap Assist feature in Windows 10. The initial release of PowerToys for Windows 10 includes two utilities for helping you customize your Windows 10 experience and increase your productivity. In fact, one of the most popular original power toys called Tweak UI was the inspiration for my first website about tweaking Windows called. According to the roadmap, there are plans to enable support for a new way to render smooth fonts on Windows 10.I was a big users of the original power toys that were first introduced for Windows 95. The tech giant is working on other features too. Using PowerToys, Microsoft is also planning to add support for missing features on Windows 10, such as ‘paste as plain text’ mode and a quick way to end the background process of any app.
PowerToys lives in the system tray of Windows 10, but the system tray support is currently limited and it only allows you to open settings or end the app process.Īccording to the roadmap, PowerToys could soon get a new flyout menu in the system tray that will allow users to quickly launch the following modules:
To address this problem, Microsoft is working with independent developers to create a new user interface that would display the major modules (features of the app) when PowerToys is launched from the system tray.
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