Windows can feel deceptively simple until the day you need to do something a little less ordinary — and that’s when a handful of built‑in and first‑party tools turn the OS from a consumer toy into a professional workstation. The five utilities highlighted in the recent How‑To Geek piece —...
Microsoft’s PowerToys team is quietly prototyping a persistent, Linux‑style menu bar for Windows 11 — a configurable “dock” attached to the new PowerToys Command Palette that can live along any screen edge and host glanceable system info, media controls, and pinned Command Palette extensions...
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