
Once downloaded, run PowerToysSetup.msi, hit next and accept the license agreement. Just click on the release version title and download PowerToysSetup.msi. The latest version of the Windows 10 PowerToys can be downloaded from the public Microsoft PowerToys repo directly at. The second utility is a useful keyboard shortcut guide that is available on demand to help identify shortcuts to make your more productive. Instead of just a few options and locations to "snap" your windows, FancyZones allows you to define custom layouts. The first is called FancyZones which is a window layout manager that builds upon the Snap Assist feature in Windows 10. The initial release of PowerToys for Windows 10 includes two utilities for helping you customize your Windows 10 experience and increase your productivity. In fact, one of the most popular original power toys called Tweak UI was the inspiration for my first website about tweaking Windows called. If you want to chat more, happy to setup a call and dive deeper.I was a big users of the original power toys that were first introduced for Windows 95. We know it isn't perfect and are working on improving it little by little with a the fantastic community support as well. We're enabling experiences and solutions as fast as we can partner / update / create them. Long story short, trust us, we're working on it, only so many hours in the day and we all have lives outside work. It is a big work item but will enable some great experiences and improve both the developer and end user experience with the installer drastically. If memory serves, this will touch 4 major subsystems, new exe and introduce a new user interaction dialog. Doing it will simplify a lot of stuff and remove the UAC dialog on install/update. #10126 is the large work item to enable us to do easier updates. We know people want auto-update and are working toward a sustainable solution based on how PowerToys needs to interact with the shell as well as develop/debug/test. In most scenarios, MSIX is a great bit of tech and highly recommend it being the first spot most people look for packaging/installer tech. Feedback was provided to the MSIX packaging team.

With some of the shell integration PowerToys does, if we auto-updated, it is an extremely disruptive with manual interaction needed.īack Jan 2020, we did try and do a MSIX installer version of PowerToys and we hit certain issues that were deemed too disruptive to the PowerToys experience based on feedback from the MSIX test and how we'd have to develop, debug and test. We have work we're doing on our installer to basically make it so we can do auto-updating in 0.51 iteration.
