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PowerToys 0.79 introduces a new Keyboard Manager that allows you to create your own keyboard shortcuts to open applications, URLs, and more.

There's also added support for third-party plugins in PowerToys Run

The latest version of Windows PowerToys add a new environment variables utility for configuring profiles. Also a new Dashboard gives you quick access to enable modules. Worth checking out.

PowerToys keep getting improvements with the addition of "Crop And Lock," a tool that allows you to crop an application window to a smaller size and continue working. Other utilities like FancyZones, Keyboard Manager, and Peek have been updated, too.

PowerToys introduces "Mouse without Borders" which allows you to control multiple computers with one mouse and keyboard, share the clipboard and files. Peek, a file preview utility, has also been added.

Screen Ruler, Quick Accent and the anticipated Text Extractor to copy text from an image using OCR are the new utilities found on Microsoft PowerToys version 0.62.0. Free to download here.

Dedicated OCR tool comes to Windows

Microsoft PowerToys are a set of utilities for customizing Windows, from Explorer add-ons, to an image resizer and color picker, the latest revision adds native support for devices like the Surface Pro X.

Super handy feature is similar to macOS' quick look

The new Microsoft PowerToys include a variety of utilities like "Awake" to ensure your PC does not go to sleep, a universal color picker, and "Run" a Spotlight-like search utility.

ThisIsWin11 is a PowerToys-like app that allows you to remove unwanted components from Windows 11, customize and tweak the Start menu.

In addition to a keyboard remapping tool

The nostalgic PowerToys have returned