microsoft/PowerToys

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Microsoft PowerToys is a collection of utilities that supercharge productivity and customization on Windows

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Microsoft PowerToys

Microsoft PowerToys is a collection of utilities that help you customize Windows and streamline everyday tasks.

Installation · Documentation · Blog · Release notes

🔨 Utilities

PowerToys includes over 30 utilities to help you customize and optimize your Windows experience:


Advanced Paste	Always on Top	Awake
Color Picker	Command Not Found	Command Palette
Crop And Lock	Environment Variables	FancyZones
File Explorer Add-ons	File Locksmith	Grab And Move
Hosts File Editor	Image Resizer	Keyboard Manager
Light Switch	Mouse Utilities	Mouse Without Borders
New+	Peek	PowerDisplay
PowerRename	PowerToys Run	Quick Accent
Registry Preview	Screen Ruler	Shortcut Guide
Text Extractor	Window Hopper	Workspaces
ZoomIt

📦 Installation

For detailed installation instructions and system requirements, visit the installation docs.

But to get started quickly, choose one of the installation methods below:

Download the .exe file from GitHub

Go to the PowerToys GitHub releases, scroll down and select Assets to reveal the installation files, and choose the one that matches your architecture and install scope. For most devices, that would be x64 per-user.

Microsoft Store

You can easily install PowerToys from the Microsoft Store:

WinGet

Download PowerToys from [WinGet](https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli#installing-the-client). Updating PowerToys via winget will respect the current PowerToys installation scope. To install PowerToys, run the following command from the command line / PowerShell:

User scope installer (default)

winget install Microsoft.PowerToys -s winget

Machine-wide scope installer

winget install --scope machine Microsoft.PowerToys -s winget

Other methods

There are [community driven install methods](https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/powertoys/install#community-driven-install-tools) such as Chocolatey and Scoop. If these are your preferred install solutions, you can find the install instructions there.

✨ What's new?

To see what's new, check out the release notes.

🛣️ Roadmap

For v0.103, we're working on a new Awake flyout, improving Screen Ruler, and continuing to modernize more utilities with WinUI 3.

❤️ PowerToys Community

The PowerToys team is extremely grateful to have the support of an amazing active community. The work you do is incredibly important. PowerToys wouldn't be nearly what it is today without your help filing bugs, updating documentation, guiding the design, or writing features. We want to say thank you and take time to recognize your work. Your contributions and feedback improve PowerToys month after month!

Contributing

This project welcomes contributions of all types. Besides coding features / bug fixes, other ways to assist include spec writing, design, documentation, and finding bugs. We are excited to work with the power user community to build a set of tools for helping you get the most out of Windows. We ask that before you start work on a feature that you would like to contribute, please read our Contributor's Guide. We would be happy to work with you to figure out the best approach, provide guidance and mentorship throughout feature development, and help avoid any wasted or duplicate effort. Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you grant us the rights to use your contribution and that you have permission to do so. For guidance on developing for PowerToys, please read the developer docs for a detailed breakdown. This includes how to setup your computer to compile.

Code of conduct

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct.

Privacy statement

The application logs basic diagnostic data (telemetry). For more privacy information and what we collect, see our PowerToys Data and Privacy documentation.