microsoft/powertoys

Microsoft PowerToys is a collection of small utilities that help you customize Windows and streamline everyday tasks. In plain terms, it is a single download that installs more than thirty separate mini-tools, each fixing a specific annoyance or adding a small power-user feature that Windows does not ship with by default. The README lists each utility with its own icon and documentation link, so you can pick and choose which ones to enable. How it works is that you install one app and then turn individual utilities on or off from its settings. The README names the included utilities, among them Advanced Paste, Always on Top, Awake, Color Picker, Command Not Found, Command Palette, Crop And Lock, Environment Variables, FancyZones for window tiling, File Explorer Add-ons, File Locksmith, Hosts File Editor, Image Resizer, Keyboard Manager, Mouse Without Borders, Peek, PowerRename, PowerToys Run, Quick Accent, Registry Preview, Screen Ruler, Shortcut Guide, Text Extractor, Workspaces, and ZoomIt. Each utility solves a focused problem, such as renaming many files at once, tiling windows into custom zones, picking a color from anywhere on screen, or remapping keys. Installation, per the README, is offered through several channels: a downloadable .exe from the GitHub releases page, the Microsoft Store, the WinGet command-line installer, and community-driven options like Chocolatey and Scoop. You would use PowerToys when you spend a lot of time in Windows and want a grab-bag of quality-of-life improvements without hunting down separate apps for each one. It is built primarily in C#. The full README is longer than what was provided.