Microsoft Learn
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Microsoft PowerToys - Windows Utilities for Power Users | Microsoft Learn
Microsoft PowerToys includes 25+ free Windows utilities including FancyZones, PowerToys Run, Color Picker, PowerRename, and more. Boost productivity for power users on Windows 10/11.
Microsoft Store
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Microsoft PowerToys - Download and install on Windows | Microsoft Store
Microsoft PowerToys is a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experiences for greater productivity. For more info on PowerToys overviews and guides, or any other tools and resources for Windows development ...
Videos
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Introduction to PowerToys - YouTube
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How to Use Microsoft PowerToys (Beginners Guide) - YouTube
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How to Use Microsoft PowerToys [Beginners Guide] 2025 - YouTube
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PowerTools Studio Software Overview - YouTube
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Windows PowerToys: Unlock 10x Productivity with These FREE Tools!
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Why Microsoft PowerToys Is the Best Free Tool You’re Not Using!
GitHub
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GitHub - microsoft/PowerToys: Microsoft PowerToys is a collection of utilities that help you customize Windows and streamline everyday tasks
Microsoft PowerToys is a collection of utilities that help you customize Windows and streamline everyday tasks - microsoft/PowerToys
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Factsheet
Original author Clint Rutkas
Developer Microsoft
Initial release 17 November 1996; 29 years ago (1996-11-17)
Original author Clint Rutkas
Developer Microsoft
Initial release 17 November 1996; 29 years ago (1996-11-17)
Wikipedia
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Microsoft PowerToys - Wikipedia
3 weeks ago - Microsoft PowerToys is a set of freeware (later open source) system utilities designed for power users developed by Microsoft for use on the Windows operating system. These programs add or change features to maximize productivity or add more ...
Microsoft Learn
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How to Install PowerToys on Windows 11 and Windows 10 | Microsoft Learn
Install PowerToys, a set of utilities for customizing Windows, using an executable file or package manager (WinGet, Chocolatey, Scoop).
Apptigent
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PowerTools For Microsoft Power Platform | Apptigent
November 15, 2023 - PowerTools integrates with Microsoft’s Power Platform to deliver a complete workflow utility solution.
TechRepublic
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Microsoft PowerToys Cheat Sheet: How to Get It, and What Can It Do?
August 26, 2025 - Microsoft PowerToys is a free download that can manage application windows, rename files in bulk, preview file contents, and more. See what’s new in version 0.93.
Microsoft Learn
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Apptigent PowerTools - Connectors | Microsoft Learn
Manipulate text, modify collections, ... content into multiple languages, and more. PowerTools is the ultimate process automation toolkit for Microsoft Power Platform....
Visual Studio Marketplace
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Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2015 Power Tools - Visual Studio Marketplace
Extension for Visual Studio - Power Tools are a set of enhancements, tools, and command-line utilities that increase productivity of Team Foundation Server scenarios.
Reddit
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r/sysadmin on Reddit: Microsoft's Power tools. Worth investing time learning?
April 6, 2023 -
Friday my boss told me to start reviewing Power App and Power Automate to see how we can use it in our environment. I thought OK good for Monday, Well I'm bored today so I'm laying here watching a few YT videos on the topic and thinking this is just a web builder with the connectors built in. Am I missing something? Or maybe I'm looking at it as a developer instead of a sysadmin that feels it would be just as easy to write this in a proper coding environment.
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Well you're in the sysadmin forum here, but the answer is a resounding yes. With regards to power automate, not only is it self documenting, great for even level one techs to copy and create their own, they are a very integrated way to do lots of things. Power bi is the powerhouse I wish I could do better but I've got Coworkers who have setup whole systems there to track everything from call centre drill down dashboards for department heads, that show manufacturing automation line efficiency from ingesting the pcs automation data, to financial report automation by integrations with api services like zero and erp software to again drill down costs or revenues to the individual sales and spillages. Like think of this niche use case: a customer won't stop with scan to file, but has no more file shares since sharepoint online. I setup scan to email with a specific email alias like ' [email protected] " which is just another alias for the same [email protected] . I then create a power automate flow that watches the mailbox for an email to come in with that address. It then takes that email strips the attachment out and puts it into the document library for that specific accounting scans folder. Same thing with new users. Create a Ms form which requires users to access it only a member of x security firm. Add in the whole new user everything, name role title, security group, roles, phone number, etc. The form goes to power automate and gets processed, and then your user is made, emails sent out back to everyone. You should be able to even create them in other api endpoints like maybe your VoIP system or hr platforms. There is a very strong value of it if you're heavily Microsoft. It's actually excellent for staff workflows and automation. Email processing, form automation is just the beginning. Not just for sysadmin tasks but every time you see someone say 'we have to transform all this data' then generally you can use some power tools for that. Lots of accounting and finance type work can be fully automated. If you're not Ms centric then yeah nah there's other ways. It's generally a very pretty wrapper lowering a barrier for entry which means it's kind of easy to support and maintain and agile to change. Again I'm not a wiz but here's my concluding statement. It's designed not to be used by developers. It's designed for professionals, from disciplines outside of IT and then as a sysadmin you should know how to use and improve it.
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It is low code/no code. Which means that what you build should be easier to understand for a non-coder. For non-coders it should be possible to automate simple tasks like 'when I recieve an email with an attachment from XYZ -> save attachment to folder ABC in onedrive or sharepoint with the name DEF-date'. In the end, you can make it as complex as you want. If you'll start with power automate, please consider using Logic Apps in Azure instead as it is cheaper and not user based and thus better for maintenance or non-personal-use.
How-To Geek
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All Microsoft's PowerToys for Windows 10 and 11, Explained
April 11, 2023 - You can download PowerToys from the Microsoft Store or get an installer directly from GitHub and enable the features you want from within the PowerToys Settings application. It's free and open-source.
Microsoft Learn
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Apptigent PowerTools LITE - Connectors | Microsoft Learn
Apptigent PowerTools LITE (Community Edition) is a FREE suite of essential utilities for enterprise workflow, forms and cloud applications. Manipulate text, modify collections, format dates and times, convert currency, perform advanced mathematical ...
Reddit
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r/AfterEffects on Reddit: I recommend the Microsoft Built, "Windows Power Tools". Google it & thank me later
September 10, 2024 - Welcome to the largest unofficial community for Microsoft Windows, the world's most popular desktop computer operating system! Members · upvotes · · comments · Telegram web: "Mark as read" on groups gone on new PC · r/Telegram • · r/Telegram · a new era of messaging · Members · upvotes · · comments · exposing tab titles to Windows? for powertools search bar (similar to MacOS) r/firefox • ·
GitHub
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GitHub - windows-powertool/Powertool: Windows powertool is a windows 10 and 11 utility designed to provide one click solution to reduce and trim down unnecessary burden that comes by default with windows. its used to Improve speed, remove bloatware, protect privacy, eliminate data collection, and so more.
Windows powertool is a windows 10 and 11 utility designed to provide one click solution to reduce and trim down unnecessary burden that comes by default with windows. From user prospective most things are useless like Ads, Telemetry which is ...
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r/windows on Reddit: I recommend the Microsoft Built, "Windows Power Tools". Google it & thank me later
September 10, 2024 - I recommend the Microsoft Built, "Windows Power Tools".
Microsoft
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AI-Powered Low-Code Tools | Microsoft Power Platform
Innovate with low-code tools using Microsoft Power Platform—Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, and Microsoft Copilot Studio.
Microsoft Learn
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Entity Framework Power Tools | Microsoft Learn
Here, Erik shows the Entity Framework 6 Power Tools (including viewing entity data models and generating views) and the EF Core Power Tools (including reverse engineering and viewing a database schema as a DGML graph).
Reddit
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r/Windows11 on Reddit: Share your favorite 3rd party power tools here
September 6, 2023 -
Hi,
Share your favorite power user tools and advices here. Anything that will speed-up work on windows 11
Make a big list please all together !!
Microsoft powertoys (microsoft powertools) : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/
Microsoft God Mode Folder : https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/enable-god-mode-windows-11
Alternative explorer : https://www.onecommander.com/
How to “Show More Options” by Default in Windows 11 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kvA4KJmLys&t=5s
clipboard manager Ditto : https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/
PCMAG
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Calling All Power Users: 27 Ways to Enhance Windows For Free With Microsoft PowerToys | PCMag
August 18, 2025 - Need to rename multiple files at once, find your mouse cursor, or quickly mute your audio during a virtual meeting? Microsoft’s free PowerToys utility will give your operating system a boost.