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Microsoft PowerToys is a collection of utilities that supercharge productivity and customization on Windows

120 mentions on Hacker News by 110 people: 29 stories, 91 comments · first 2019-05-07 · latest 2026-05-13

Mentions per year 120 mentions · busiest year 2020 (30)
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  1. ▲ 2
    PowerToys has detected an app Always On Top message · Issue #30973
    story by stareatgoats · 2025-10-09 · 0 comments
  2. ▲ 135
    Show HN: Inspect and extract files from MSI installers directly in your browser
    story by rmast · 2025-06-20 · 24 comments
  3. ▲ 3
    The Windows efficiency toolkit open-sourced by Microsoft
    story by wushi · 2025-05-21 · 1 comment
  4. ▲ 10
    PowerToys – Windows system utilities to maximize productivity
    story by keepamovin · 2025-05-03 · 2 comments
  5. ▲ 3
    Microsoft PowerToys: utilities for tuning and streamlining Windows experience
    story by vissidarte_choi · 2023-11-03 · 1 comment
  6. ▲ 2
    PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity
    story by thunderbong · 2023-10-30 · 0 comments
  7. ▲ 1
    Powertoys bug #2701: [New setting] Check for updates automatically (on/off)
    story by snvzz · 2023-10-01 · 0 comments
  8. ▲ 4
    A plea to Microsoft: Subpixel text rendering for WRGB stripe and RGB triangular
    story by seepy · 2023-05-29 · 0 comments
  9. ▲ 41
    PowerToys Release 0.70 with Mouse Without Borders and PowerToys Peek
    story by thunderbong · 2023-05-24 · 12 comments
  10. ▲ 2
    PowerToys Quick Accent adds the ability to type en and em dashes
    story by LoganDark · 2023-02-09 · 1 comment
  11. ▲ 1
    PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity
    story by thunderbong · 2022-11-03 · 0 comments
  12. ▲ 3
    Release v0.64.0 · Microsoft/PowerToys
    story by Tomte · 2022-11-03 · 0 comments
  13. ▲ 3
    PowerToys: Utilities to tune and streamline Windows for greater productivity
    story by jaboutboul · 2022-01-10 · 0 comments
  14. ▲ 3
    Microsoft PowerToys
    story by rootlocus · 2021-11-01 · 0 comments
  15. ▲ 1
    MS PowerToys is a set of utilities for power users to tune their Windows 10
    story by hexfran · 2021-05-28 · 1 comment
  16. ▲ 6
    PowerToys
    story by bearerofgarbage · 2021-02-21 · 0 comments
  17. ▲ 7
    Microsoft PowerToys – Color Picker
    story by Fabricio20 · 2020-10-29 · 0 comments
  18. ▲ 2
    Microsoft PowerToys for Windows 10
    story by tomrod · 2020-08-23 · 1 comment
  19. ▲ 2
    Microsoft PowerToys
    story by benibraz · 2020-08-02 · 0 comments
  20. ▲ 1
    PowerToys Keyboard Manager
    story by pshirshov · 2020-06-24 · 0 comments
  21. ▲ 1
    Windows PowerToys Run
    story by drumttocs8 · 2020-05-30 · 0 comments
  22. ▲ 2
    PowerToys v0.18.0
    story by notpiika · 2020-05-19 · 0 comments
  23. ▲ 5
    Microsoft PowerToys v0.17.0
    story by riqbal · 2020-04-30 · 0 comments
  24. ▲ 1
    Microsoft Powertoys v0.12.0
    story by cnrd · 2019-10-29 · 0 comments
  25. ▲ 507
    Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager
    story by nailer · 2019-09-06 · 163 comments
  26. ▲ 343
    PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity
    story by dgellow · 2019-09-05 · 126 comments
  27. ▲ 1
    Microsoft Reboots PowerToys for Windows 10
    story by ingve · 2019-05-08 · 0 comments
  28. ▲ 6
    Microsoft PowerToys for Windows 10
    story by MagicPropmaker · 2019-05-08 · 2 comments
  29. ▲ 82
    PowerToys – Windows system utilities to maximize productivity
    story by MikusR · 2019-05-07 · 29 comments