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Microsoft PowerToys

Microsoft PowerToys is a collection of utilities that help you customize Windows and streamline everyday tasks.

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🔨 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:

Download the .exe file from GitHub

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.

Microsoft Store

You can easily install PowerToys from the Microsoft Store:

WinGet

Download PowerToys from [WinGet](https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli#installing-the-client). Updating PowerToys via winget will respect the 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 methods

There are [community driven install methods](https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/powertoys/install#community-driven-install-tools) such as Chocolatey and Scoop. If these are your preferred install solutions, you can find the install instructions there.

✨ 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.

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PowerToys

这是什么？

PowerToys 是微软推出的一组实用工具，共有 30 多款，可以帮你自定义 Windows，简化日常操作，例如窗口管理器、取色器、批量文件重命名工具等。

这是一个应用，还是一组独立的工具？

它以单个安装包的形式安装，但其中包含 30 多款相互独立的工具，每款都可以单独开启或关闭，例如 FancyZones、Color Picker、PowerToys Run 和 PowerRename。

安装 PowerToys 之前我需要准备什么？

只需要一台受支持的 Windows 10 或 11 电脑，且系统架构与发布版本相符。除安装程序本身外，不需要额外的运行时环境，也不需要单独的账号。

它会追踪任何使用数据吗？

会的，应用会记录基本的诊断遥测数据，具体收集了哪些内容另有文档说明。

它在 Windows 10 和 Windows 11 上都能用吗？

可以，它明确支持 Windows 10 和 Windows 11。

它会收集我的哪些数据？

PowerToys 会收集基本的诊断（遥测）数据，完整详情请参阅其单独的《数据和隐私》文档。

有哪些值得一提的实用工具？

亮点包括用于自定义窗口布局的 FancyZones、作为快速应用启动器的 PowerToys Run、取色器 Color Picker、用于批量重命名文件的 PowerRename，以及用于可扩展快捷操作的 Command Palette。

有没有能从图片或屏幕中提取文字的工具？

有，Text Extractor 可以提取屏幕上任意内容中的文字，功能类似 OCR。

后续版本有什么计划？

下一版本的路线图包括使用 WinUI 3 对工具进行现代化改造，并为 Command Palette 增加标签页以及 JavaScript/TypeScript 扩展支持。

能否让我在多台电脑之间共用一套鼠标和键盘？

可以，Mouse Without Borders 允许你用一套鼠标和键盘控制多台电脑。

What are similar projects?

rustcast, BibaYanji, EverythingToolbar, FluentTweaker, Files, palette-from-image-ai, DevToys, glazewm

Which topics is it in?

color-picker, command-palette, clipboard, registry, file-manager, keyboard, windows-10, windows-11, microsoft, c, customization, utility

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