The BEST Tools for Windows! - PowerToys Tutorial

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Today we're going to maximize your Productivity on Windows with Microsoft PowerToys.
I'll show you step-by-step how you can use, customize, and be more efficient when using Microsoft PowerToys.
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00:00 - What are PowerToys?
00:44 - Always On Top
01:32 - Awake
02:32 - Color Picker
04:31 - FancyZones
07:03 - File Locksmith
07:38 - File Explorer add-ons
08:12 - Hot File Editor
09:02 - Image Resizer
09:40 - Keyboard Manager
10:42 - Mouse Utilities
12:15 - Mouse Without Borders
14:02 - Paste As Plain Text
14:33 - Peek
14:56 - PowerRename
15:53 - Run / App Launcher
17:15 - Quick Accent
18:09 - Registry Preview
18:51 - Screen Ruler
19:39 - Shortcut Guide
20:09 - Text Extractor
20:45 - Video Conference Mute
21:53 - Conclusion
Thank you for watching!

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@Krushx0 10 ай бұрын

Only thing missing really from this toolbox is a search option to search for a feature that you forget where you can find it

@KidWiz3 10 ай бұрын

I can't use Windows without Power Toys at this point, it's too good!

@jmedoestech 10 ай бұрын

Perfect, I've been looking for a decent video on PowerToys 💪Good vid, Thank you!

@jokinboken 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for this - I always tell myself I should be using PT's, but it always felt like a lot to go through. This was very helpful.

@PokuPokuYeah 8 ай бұрын

This video just rocked my world. I was looking for the mouse finding feature for a while and this utility popped nowhere ! This utility adds so many perfect features to Windows.. Thank you so much !

@TechnoTim 8 ай бұрын

Glad I could help!

@iamtharunraj Ай бұрын

This is by far the best video I have seen on this application. Thanks for this amazing tutorial!

@maicon9 10 ай бұрын

Been using it for long time. Windows ain't the same without it. Especially when your own a 49in monitor and create your own layout. I still prefer tiling on Linux but when I have to use Windows nothing beats it so far

@rioBODEGA 9 ай бұрын

thanks for taking the time to explain all of these! great video

@TechnoTim 8 ай бұрын

Glad you like them!

@NickMach007 9 ай бұрын

Good review of these tools. I forgot some of them existed even though I run PowerToys. Thanks!

@stowgood 4 ай бұрын

6:20 highlight distance! Yes that is so helpful I've been looking for that setting.

@n0madfernan257 10 ай бұрын

tinkered with power toys recently just to show pdf thumbnail previews when no pdf apps are installed on windows and left it like that. never bothered until this pops up. thanks as always tim.

@julianwildauer 10 ай бұрын

really helpful Thanks!

@bcookdc2 10 ай бұрын

Thanks Tim, I’ve just moved to a company where they are heavy Windows users (was on macOS for most of my career), so I hadn’t spent the time to learn all that PT could do for me.

@RealDaryl 10 ай бұрын

Great vid, defo gonna install this. I call the back-tick tilde

@kablammy7 4 ай бұрын

you might be the first person whom i have viewed / listened to on yewspewed that i : 1 . do not need to speed up the playback because of slow speech and 2 . never need to repeat play or turn on cc to find the word or phrase i did not hear correctly or recognize and 3 . am not irritated by either - an apparent man who acts and sounds like a 10 year old girl or a man or woman who acts and sounds as though they were hosting the greatest and most exciting social event of the year - earlier - i was watching a yewspewed presenter - and i kept asking him over the screen - why can't you talk like a regular person ? ? ? i wanted to hear what they were saying, but i could not do it because of their self-fulfilling frenetic facade - you are a natural spokesperson with exceptional capabilities

@faroukbehiani2300 5 ай бұрын

This is the best walkthrough video of powertoys, of so many I've watched🎉🎉

@andyfaulkner6653 10 ай бұрын

Great video!!

@ronm6585 10 ай бұрын

Thanks Tim.

@JBR7655 10 ай бұрын

so cool, I have this but I have not really used. Guess it's time I started putting it to use.

@inthechi773 10 ай бұрын

thanks bud!!

@smalltimer4370 10 ай бұрын

Totally love your videos btw.

@TechnoTim 10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

@KamelJabber1 7 ай бұрын

great job!!! thanks

@frydegz 10 ай бұрын

Did not know about powertools! Will definitely install these - that being said you can do plain text pasting in most OSes stock with Ctrl-Shift-V or the mac equivalent too

@TechnoTim 10 ай бұрын

Thank you! I did not know that!

@l0gic23 9 ай бұрын

🤯

@muddyexport5639 10 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@jefferygrantham5582 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the video, Tim! I didn't realize that PowerToys had added "mouse without borders", which is a total game changer. Cheers!

@TechnoTim 10 ай бұрын

Glad I could help!

@PendelSteven 2 ай бұрын

17:54 ... you simply type eu - if you're typing Dutch, that is. Hence Köln in Dutch is spelled Keuln. Well, it's spelled Keulen, but the thing is that ö is spelled eu in Dutch. So now you know how to pronounced a word like deur, which is door in Dutch, pronounced dör if tyou will. As in Nooddeur. Needdoor: emergency exit. The ö is also present in Icelandic & Swedish, as in Malmö. Ø in Danish & Norwegian. All the same vowel anyhow.

@PendelSteven 2 ай бұрын

9:45 It is also handy to disable win(l) which was my workaround after a (failed?) update Otherwise every shortcut, it seemed, also "pressed" the winkey. Doing all sorts of things I didn't want, even activating winkeylock. No, thank you. Didn't take long for Windows to fix itself after new updates, but I kept the setting. If this happens again, I can simply click Key Manager on and wait for the update.

@actng 10 ай бұрын

powertoys and cmd line were things i used daily from windows 95(?) onwards... but then somehow got convinced to do things thru the GUI and now i'm stuck having to relearn it all esp with powershell

@smudgeous4068 10 ай бұрын

It's worth noting that FancyZones' canvas layout option is perfect for creating various sized zones, which I've found invaluable for partitioning the space on larger resolution displays. I use it on a 4K monitor to set a 1920x1080 zone top center, two vertical zones to its sides (the left extends to the same height as the center, with the right extending down further). The bottom left extends further right than the top left so the zone is similar in aspect ratio and only slightly smaller than the 1080P top center. The bottom middle is closer to a 4:3 ratio, and the bottom right is a much smaller leftover rectangle. Doing this gives me 6 zones including a perfect 1080P one which is perfect for screen sharing at work. The vertical zones are perfect for email, chat programs, and browsing code. The larger horizontal zones are great for web browsers, while the smaller ones are used for terminal windows, file explorer, and the main contacts window of Skype. When I previously used an ultra wide monitor, it did the same top center 1080P and made similar surrounding zones, though the shorter vertical pixels caused the bottom row to be a super short and wide zone primarily used for terminals.

@clementj_ 18 күн бұрын

Thanks for the tutorial! However, I have a small issue for fancy zone: when I want to put a KZfaq video in full screen while I have defined a specific zone, the video goes full screen on the entire screen instead of just the defined zone. How can I fix this?

@Mach1Greeble 10 ай бұрын

Has anyone figured a way to keep your FancyZones after a reboot? It's always defaults to a native preset

@SuperJuryDuty 10 ай бұрын

Mine stays to my custom zones after reboot. Have installed as admin and have PT selected to start w win?

@louisevirtudazo2822 4 күн бұрын

Mouse without borders is so fucking cool!! I can now use my desktop and laptop without turning my head and chairs xD

@haxwithaxe 10 ай бұрын

It's a shame that power toys isn't baked into windows. I think a lot more people would benefit from Microsoft making their own tools more easily accessible.

@jothain 10 ай бұрын

Well it's insanely easy to install and tbh I've only seen powerusers to even want included features. But I get your point. I wouldn't mind them to be out-of-box in Windows. That being said I read somewhere that they're generally tools that are contantly under development and not exactly the release quality tested software. Though also that being said I can't recall ever having any issues of them. But if that's true, thats likely the reason they're not baked into installs.

@haxwithaxe 10 ай бұрын

@@jothain it's about discoverability. If people have to know to seek out this extra software they might not know they want it and they'd never seek it out. If they are built in and integrated into the UI people will be able to discover them as part of normal configuration even if they aren't nearly sysadmin level power users. I think the window tiling is a good example of something that should be a checkbox somewhere in the settings UI, because it's something everyone but the most casual users can benefit from. Slightly unrelated: If it's built in enterprise users won't need to justify their need to IT to get it installed. Believe it or not that's an actual problem. Normally I wouldn't bring this up but some of these features are so fundamental (eg advanced tiling) to the kinds of things so many corporate users do that it's silly to have people burn time to get them.

@jothain 10 ай бұрын

@@haxwithaxe well window management is really good out of box in Windows imo. I can easily get along with windows+cursors for all the time. Actually I don't even have fancyzones installed on all of my Windows computers as imo it's useful for only very specific display setups. I do use it all the time at work, but how many people actually have ultra wide main display and 16:9 pivoted for document reading and file explorer / teams usage at their work? I'd suppose quite few. Plus as I already mentioned that these products to my knowledge aren't rated for so-to-say production use. Anyone with desire for these features will find them sooner or later. Also they've been around for decades, so it's not like new thing. What I would as is that why ie. MacOS has such shitty display management out of box. That's bizarre. I was so blown away by its lackings when I got myself Mac like year ago. OS that's "for pros" 😄

@l0gic23 9 ай бұрын

Got to wonder what bad influence the OS team would have if it was integrated. It would probably be watered down if we were lucky and mostly dead otherwise (budget, etc)

@angelinamerkwuerdig9656 10 ай бұрын

Ö - you perfectly pronounced it. 👍 Thank you for this great explaination on the current power toys.

@TechnoTim 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for the confirmation!

@user-hk2yj6jd2g 7 ай бұрын

Is it OK to have a Borderless Mouse feature keyboard?

@julianwildauer 10 ай бұрын

This is so awesome there needs to be a second comment! ^^

@asantamzid 2 ай бұрын

Can I change the color picker activation default key?

@sharukhrahman7925 10 ай бұрын

Still no background remover tool.. those fake png's on Google are the worst.

@RyderCragie 5 ай бұрын

13:39 can you drag files over?

@lourohlman 10 ай бұрын

Why when I use fancy zones with the windows button and arrow buttons that the window extends under the start bar but if I shift drag them they align in the respective zones?

@TechnoTim 10 ай бұрын

I just tried it and I see the same gap. Did you disable snap in Windows (this was in the video)

@lourohlman 10 ай бұрын

@@TechnoTimsorry for not capturing that. But hey, more comments helps your algorithm to be found for these videos so we both benefit! And I gave ya a like!! :)

@kenjiokura7601 9 ай бұрын

I like how PowerToys listens to the default browser setting instead of forcing you to use Edge when searching

@lmt125 7 ай бұрын

Stream deck to add all these hotkeys ❤

@TechnoTim 7 ай бұрын

great idea!

@ChrisAzure 10 ай бұрын

I have seen this tool so many times and never bothered to look at it ☠️

@SouthbayCreations 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for the video. Still no thumbnail preview for PSD or AI files. Such a shame when Mac can preview just about any file type. Trying to switch from Mac back to Windows but some basic stuff is still not available in Windows smh

@jothain 10 ай бұрын

Goes the otherway around in so many things though. File and windows management :)

@jayweezy3264 4 ай бұрын

yeeeeee boy windowsboyz4lyfe mo'fka

@TechySpeaking 10 ай бұрын

First

@kablammy7 4 ай бұрын

how can it really be called powertoys when there is no nuke option to shut down all unnecessary processes and services before launching call of duty warzone ? ? ?

@eidodoos 10 ай бұрын

windows is getting great again. i wish for windows desktop use swift keyboard(android) too. im lazy with typing. very useful for repeating word, spellcheck, many more. must have android keyboard. i tried many other keyboard but microsoft swiftkeyboard is FTW.

@Mr.Leeroy 10 ай бұрын

Why is this so hidden and why it still has no Dexpot functionality is beyond my understanding.

@pd7484 10 ай бұрын

why aren’t these just built into windows!!? why did i have to stumble upon a reddit thread to know abt this!!?

@l0gic23 9 ай бұрын

Probably because some product manager or executive would mess it up

@maxcharacterlimitreache- 10 ай бұрын

So, windows is the cradle of bloatware and info scrapers, but useful features are to be downloaded afterwards?

@theangelofspace155 10 ай бұрын

I want to watch the whole video, but who use windows 😢

@KidWiz3 10 ай бұрын

Watch it anyway to support Tim?

@TechnoTim 10 ай бұрын

I think like 75% of the world uses Windows in some way

@jothain 10 ай бұрын

Hmmm... Let's think that for awhile. I have MacOS, various Linux install and few Windows installs. But even if I'd drop Windows at home. Well every single computer at work has Windows. Latter I think this applies to _quite a bit_ of people.

@qualityassurance8668 10 ай бұрын

@@jothain Funnily enough, I'm the one of only two people that use Windows at work in IT company, everyone else is on Mac. I do use all 3 (3rd being Ubuntu) but still. Outside of work (programming)? Everyone who has non-work laptop has Windows and bunch of us have some Linux running on secondary PC(s) or dual-booted. No one actually has personal Mac. Numbers stack up fast.

@KidWiz3 10 ай бұрын

Tim saying what I thought as well. Market share is market share. Judging others for using another OS is not an effective way to convert users. Even those who don't use Windows can benefit. I main Mac and my servers are Linux, but any Windows VMs, work computers or friends' systems I help build with Windows all use powertoys. I've had it for years and Tim still taught me things in an easy to watch video.