Keep this stuff on the download, if the win execs find out about this it'll have a subscription tier next week
The miracle of PowerToys, Microsoft's last great Windows app
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Re: The miracle of PowerToys, Microsoft's last great Windows app
#12> Microsoft PowerToys feels like something that shouldn’t exist in Windows today. What started in 2019 as a couple of utilities for things like window and shortcut management has gradually expanded to nearly 30 useful tools Year 2019? Oh no, not by a longshot. I've been using Microsoft-branded PowerToys since Windows XP, around the year 2001. Wikipedia says: > PowerToys are available for Windows 95, Windows XP, Windo…
They've been around since the 1980s, only they were called TSRs then and were mostly by third parties rather than Microsoft.
Not sure why this is news, there are a bazillion little Windows utilities out there not by Microsoft, they just aren't called PowerToys and Microsoft-branded.
Re: The miracle of PowerToys, Microsoft's last great Windows app
#13Weird, just today I saw that the powertoys directory is taking up 17gb on my computer. It’s filled with multiple installer versions I guess.
> 17gb
Microsoft power /s