microsoft/PowerToys
Microsoft PowerToys is a collection of utilities that supercharge productivity and customization on Windows
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 1 day ago, with 412 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #84 in the weekly ranking the week of Jan 11, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a suite of utilities to enhance productivity and customization on Windows 10 and 11.
- Integrates multiple power-user tools into a single, extensible platform with frequent updates and community-driven enhancements.
- Use for managing and customizing keyboard shortcuts and remapping keys to streamline workflows.
- Use for organizing and snapping application windows efficiently using the FancyZones window manager.
- Use for quick access to system commands, file renaming, and clipboard management to speed up daily tasks.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
Microsoft PowerToys is a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity. For more info on PowerToys overviews and how to use the utilities, or any other tools and resources for Windows development environments, head over to learn.microsoft.com!
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
8.7K+230
Open issues
8.0K+587
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| microsoft/PowerToys | 140.7K | — | 65 | 1 day ago |
| Category median | 94.5K | +2.0K | 60 | — |
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