Today, the editor wants to tell you a great story about hard work and finally achieving the impossible task—it is the goal that many people pursue but fail repeatedly. It is covered with the blood and tears of engineers, but it is the name For the nourishment of “love”, it has now grown and thrived, and has become the savior who liberates everyone from bondage! It is the most powerful tool called “Microsoft PowerToys” (hereinafter referred to as PowerToys)!
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What are PowerToys?
Sorry for the exaggeration I said before, but please forgive me, because after reading the introduction of the editor, you will definitely be deeply fascinated by the magic power of PowerToys!
Definition and Introduction
PowerToys is developed by Microsoft and a group of loving engineers. It is specially designed to optimize the Windows operating system. It is a free downloadable open source software tool set; its main function is to help users through a series of practical tools and functions. It can complete the work faster, optimize the user’s operating efficiency, improve the application of multitasking tasks and file management, and improve the user’s productivity from all levels
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At present, PowerToys is still being updated continuously. Although the official version has not been released yet, the operation is quite intuitive and simple! What’s even better is that most of the functions also support Traditional Chinese, so you don’t have to worry about not being able to understand even if you are bad at English!You can use it as a gadget still in the lab
Development and History
If you want to understand the development of PowerToys, it can be traced back to the Windows 95 period. Unexpectedly, PowerToys is as old as the editor…cough!It’s okay, it’s just an inexplicable kind of intimacy
At the time, PowerToys was a collection of add-ons provided by Microsoft that allowed users to further customize and optimize their Windows 95 systems.Later, in Windows XP and Windows 7, Microsoft also continued to launch corresponding versions of PowerToys, which added more tools and practical functions, allowing users to use the Windows system more conveniently.
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Until 2019, Microsoft relaunched PowerToys, redesigned and optimized for Windows 10. In addition, the program code is fully disclosed, so that interested and loving engineers from all over the world can participate in the development together.Over time, PowerToys has been developed and evolved by the efforts of this group of engineers
Even now, the practical features that have been praised by users in PowerToys are also integrated into Windows 11.But if you want to create the most comfortable and suitable working environment for you, then installing the Windows 11 version of PowerToys is still your best choice
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Why use PowerToys?
I clearly use the Windows system well, why do I need to install an additional software, it takes time to install, and time to learn, what a hassle! Wait a minute, the editor here will give you three seconds. If you think about it carefully, is the Windows system really easy to use? When you operate the Windows system, there really isn’t a moment when the idea of ”it would be great if you can have these functions” or “just add those operations will be more efficient” comes to mind?
If you have, then congratulations, PowerToys is definitely the best helper to help you solve these troubles! Compared with the small learning cost you invest in PowerToys and the subsequent benefits, you will definitely not regret it!
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increase productivity
PowerToys provides many useful gadgets that can help you complete your work more efficiently; for example, using FancyZones can help you better manage windows, PowerRename can help you batch rename files, etc.
customized
PowerToys also has many personalized options, you can set and adjust according to your own preferences; for example, the color picker can customize the color of the color picker, the keyboard manager can replace complex key combinations with one key, etc.
free and open source
Of course, everyone is most concerned about whether to spend money! Please rest assured that PowerToys is a free and open source software, anyone can use it for free, and can also participate in the open source community to contribute to the development of this software. Continuous updates without money, such a Buddha software, do you really not consider using it?
This time, the editor first introduces it here, and here is just to start with the introduction, so that everyone has a basic understanding and interest in PowerToys, interested friends may wish to download and try it on the official website of Microsoft:Install PowerToys
As for those who want to see more introductions about PowerToys, please share, click like and leave a message to let me know, then I will bring more detailed and interesting operation instructions later!
