microsoft/powertoys

🔨 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:

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.

• User scope installer (default)

winget install Microsoft.PowerToys -s winget

• Machine-wide scope installer

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

✨ What's new?

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

🛣️ Roadmap

For v0.102, we're working on modernizing several utilities with WinUI 3, expanding Command Palette with tabs and JavaScript/TypeScript extensions, and adding new productivity improvements across PowerToys.

❤️ 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.