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    PowerToys Replaces Paid Windows Utilities with a Free Unified Toolkit

    PowerToys has quietly eaten a lot of the small, focused utilities that used to be paid staples of the Windows power‑user toolkit — and for many people that means a one‑time purchase or subscription is no longer necessary. A recent XDA piece argued that five paid apps...
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    PowerToys for Windows: Free, Modular Tools to Boost Productivity

    Windows PowerToys has quietly become one of the smartest productivity bets a Windows power user can make: a free, modular toolkit that plugs measurable short-cuts into everyday workflows while also serving as an incubator for features Microsoft may one day bake into Windows itself. The suite’s...
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    PowerToys v0.94: Settings search and Quit confirmation refine UX

    Microsoft's PowerToys team is preparing a set of small but meaningful usability fixes that aim to remove two of the most common annoyances power users report: hunting for the right toggle inside a growing Settings app, and accidentally quitting the suite when they only meant to hide it. The next...
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    PowerToys 0.93 boosts performance; Store policy tightens; Patch Tuesday security

    Microsoft’s week in software was quieter on the surface but consequential under the hood: PowerToys received another maturation-focused release that tightens performance and discoverability, the Microsoft Store tightened rules that affect how developers list and bundle titles, and August’s Patch...
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    PowerToys 0.93: Card Dashboard and Faster Command Palette for Windows

    Microsoft’s PowerToys 0.93 is a surprisingly consequential release: a modernized, card‑style settings dashboard paired with a deep engineering push to speed up the new Command Palette—delivering measurable reductions in install size, memory usage, and launch times—plus several targeted...
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