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Microsoft is Relaunching PowerToys For Windows 10 Users

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday May 16 2019, @11:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the power-through-tasks dept.

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Microsoft is Relaunching PowerToys For Windows 10 Users

Microsoft announced this week that they will be bringing back the Windows PowerToys so that a new generation of users can enjoy them. To start they will be offering two new PowerToys, but have a list of others that they hope to add.

For those who are unfamiliar with Windows PowerToys, they were small freeware utilities that were created by Windows developers as side projects related to something that they were interested about. They were not supported by Microsoft and were use-at-your-own-risk type of tools.

For Windows users, especially power users, they allowed you to play with Windows internals by tweaking undocumented features, play with fun tools, or to provide functionality that made it easier to get things done.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday May 16 2019, @11:29PM (1 child)

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Thursday May 16 2019, @11:29PM (#844514)

    I did wonder if the windows shortcut popup might be nice for my "less technical" users as a memory aid but decided that they would never be able to remember how to invoke it, so probably a waste of time.

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  • (Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday May 20 2019, @03:57PM

    by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Monday May 20 2019, @03:57PM (#845544) Journal

    It might well be useful, but it also reflects what Microsoft currently thinks what a "PowerToy" is, or what a Power User should be possibly. I was a bit harsh - it isn't that what they're releasing doesn't have usability. Just not all that much Power.

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