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Re: Microsoft PowerToys

#61

If only there were a power toy to make it so that I can drag a file onto an app on the Win11 task bar to open it with that app, then I could actually switch to Win11. Until then, Power Toys makes every day with Win10 a little bit better.

That was added to base Windows 11 3 years ago

Huh?!? How? It was removed and looks like not working right now

Re: Microsoft PowerToys

#63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That was added to base Windows 11 3 years ago

Huh?!? How? It was removed and looks like not working right now

It was added in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_11,_version_22H2

Before that update the feature was not implemented, because Windows 11 uses the taskbar written for Windows 10x

Re: Microsoft PowerToys

#65

If only there were a power toy to make it so that I can drag a file onto an app on the Win11 task bar to open it with that app, then I could actually switch to Win11. Until then, Power Toys makes every day with Win10 a little bit better.

The ‘proxy’ part on MacOS (which I think was a thing way back to System 9, 8 and maybe even 7) is something I have always missed in the Windows world. Also being able toneart a path in to an open/save dialog to get the path there is a thing I miss!

Re: Microsoft PowerToys

#66
post #8

PowerToys is one of the best things about Windows: useful, free, and regularly updated. It was great to see it come back in 2019.

One issue I had in the past was with the Advanced Clipboard/Paste so I've disabled it on my new laptop until I can figure out what the issue was.

That said, PowerToys was the first thing I installed on the new laptop.

Re: Microsoft PowerToys

#67
post #8

PowerToys is one of the best things about Windows: useful, free, and regularly updated. It was great to see it come back in 2019.

One missing feature is Windows Explorer Shell integration for File Hash checks, e.g. for downloads. Hopefully it won't be too much longer until this lands: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/57#issuecommen...

I found OpenHashTab to be a good tool for this in the meantime: https://github.com/namazso/OpenHashTab

Re: Microsoft PowerToys

#68

Why not just include in the OS?

"power" as in Power-user... A lot of power user tools aren't typically installed in consumer oriented OSes, see MacOS and Windows. Beyond this, PowerToys can take third party contributions and evolve far faster/easier than Windows official release software.

I wish they removed a lot from Windows... for a consumer user. Installing Prof/Enterprise editions and there is still bloatware installed, it is so unappealing!

Re: Microsoft PowerToys

#69
post #30

Powertoys has had some weird bugs over the years: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/410 I can't find it now, but I think it also used to crash outlook if you put mailto: links in emails.

I wish I could find the pull request associated with that issue.

Re: Microsoft PowerToys

#70
Is there a single utility more powerful than some standalone alternative? Seems like none of them are very powerful despite the name (though maybe that's what the "toys" is for?)
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