The miracle of PowerToys, Microsoft's last great Windows app(www.fastcompany.com)

12 pointsby Foe4 hours ago4 comments

nayukian hour ago
> Microsoft PowerToys feels like something that shouldn’t exist in Windows today. What started in 2019 as a couple of utilities for things like window and shortcut management has gradually expanded to nearly 30 useful tools
Year 2019? Oh no, not by a longshot. I've been using Microsoft-branded PowerToys since Windows XP, around the year 2001. Wikipedia says:
> PowerToys are available for Windows 95, Windows XP, Windows 10, and Windows 11 (and explicitly not compatible with Windows Vista, 7, 8, or 8.1).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PowerToys
- GaProgMan24 minutes ago
  A journalist writing about something technology relayed abd getting their facts wrong? The devil, you say?
neonstatican hour ago
I will just note, that about two weeks ago I was trying to shrink my Parallels Windows 11 VM disk size only to discover, that PowerToys update files were stored on the drive indefinitely, accumulating over 10 gb of disk space.
whycome2 hours ago
Weird, just today I saw that the powertoys directory is taking up 17gb on my computer. It’s filled with multiple installer versions I guess.
- chid22 minutes ago
  that is wild - it seems like just a 'toy' project for them
- neonstatican hour ago
  Ahh, just posted about the same issue. Should have read the comments more carefully. Toys indeed.
burnt-resistor2 hours ago
If a user desires Windows hackery, there's also Windhawk.
https://windhawk.net
- eviks2 hours ago
  Indeed, this is the miracle app, not the primitive "power toys"