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How to use PowerToys | Downloads & Release notes | Contributing to PowerToys | What's Happening | Roadmap

About

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!

Current utilities:
Advanced PasteAlways on TopPowerToys Awake
Command Not FoundColor PickerCrop And Lock
Environment VariablesFancyZonesFile Explorer Add-ons
File LocksmithHosts File EditorImage Resizer
Keyboard ManagerMouse utilitiesMouse Without Borders
New+PeekPaste as Plain Text
PowerRenamePowerToys RunQuick Accent
Registry PreviewScreen RulerShortcut Guide
Text ExtractorVideo Conference MuteWorkspaces

Installing and running Microsoft PowerToys

Requirements

Via GitHub with EXE [Recommended]

Go to the Microsoft PowerToys GitHub releases page and click on Assets at the bottom to show the files available in the release. Please use the appropriate PowerToys installer that matches your machine's architecture and install scope. For most, it is x64 and per-user.

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DescriptionFilenamesha256 hash
Per user - x64PowerToysUserSetup-0.86.0-x64.exeCFB9608B28B8FF12C9A7C9814A6EF981636EB5AB261DC278C28EC93FD959CCE2
Per user - ARM64PowerToysUserSetup-0.86.0-arm64.exe861CEDBFDCDA993D1D1056E3280319D5EA45D142CA3C737AB1FB4FABD651A5F5
Machine wide - x64PowerToysSetup-0.86.0-x64.exe857DE9DC5938D9602F82DFD6183DB5E6823B875A412AEC59B4BE93617E27E9CD
Machine wide - ARM64PowerToysSetup-0.86.0-arm64.exe6F37192534C195A02A80AAE1E449DF61C894C50763096A06195581801943FA31

This is our preferred method.

Via Microsoft Store

Install from the Microsoft Store's PowerToys page. You must be using the new Microsoft Store which is available for both Windows 11 and Windows 10.

Via WinGet

Download PowerToys from WinGet. Updating PowerToys via winget will respect current PowerToys installation scope. To install PowerToys, run the following command from the command line / PowerShell:

User scope installer [default]

winget install Microsoft.PowerToys -s winget

Machine-wide scope installer

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

Other install methods

There are community driven install methods such as Chocolatey and Scoop. If these are your preferred install solutions, you can find the install instructions there.

Third-Party Run Plugins

There is a collection of third-party plugins created by the community that aren't distributed with PowerToys.

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.

What's Happening

PowerToys Roadmap

Our prioritized roadmap of features and utilities that the core team is focusing on.

0.86 - October 2024 Update

In this release, we focused on new features, stability, and improvements.

Highlights

General

Advanced Paste

Mouse Jump

Mouse Without Borders

New+

Peek

PowerToys Run

Quick Accent

Registry Preview

Settings

Workspaces

Documentation

Development

What is being planned for version 0.87

For v0.87, we'll work on the items below:

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. Month by month, you directly help make PowerToys a better piece of software.

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 information on privacy and what we collect, see our PowerToys Data and Privacy documentation.