microsoft/powertoys

Microsoft PowerToys is a collection of utilities for Windows that lets you customize the operating system and speed up everyday tasks that the built-in tools do not handle well on their own. Instead of being one application, it is a bundle of more than thirty small tools that you turn on or off individually, and they sit in the background until you trigger them with a shortcut or a menu entry. The README lists the included utilities by name. Examples include Advanced Paste, Always on Top, Awake, Color Picker, Command Palette, Crop And Lock, FancyZones for arranging windows into custom layouts, File Explorer Add-ons, Image Resizer, Keyboard Manager for remapping keys, Mouse Without Borders for controlling several computers from one mouse and keyboard, PowerRename for batch-renaming files, PowerToys Run as a quick launcher, Screen Ruler, Shortcut Guide, Text Extractor for pulling text out of any region of the screen, Workspaces, and ZoomIt, among others. Installation is done by downloading an installer from GitHub releases, getting it from the Microsoft Store, or using the WinGet command-line package manager, community-driven installers like Chocolatey and Scoop are also mentioned. Someone would use PowerToys when they spend a lot of time in Windows and keep running into small papercuts, needing to rename a hundred files at once, paste text without formatting, keep a window on top, or arrange windows in a non-standard grid, and want a single well-maintained bundle for all of them.