powertoys

Microsoft has quietly shipped PowerToys v0.97.2 — a small but important stability-and-polish update that addresses a raft of regressions introduced during the broader 0.97 cycle, notably fixing Command Palette glitches, tuning CursorWrap behavior, and repairing several UI and upgrade-path edge...

Microsoft’s latest PowerToys maintenance release is a lesson in pragmatic stewardship: a small, surgical patch—v0.97.2—addresses a handful of regressions introduced in the 0.97 cycle and, critically for many Windows 10 users, restores Image Resizer after an upgrade path problem tied to legacy...

Microsoft has quietly shipped PowerToys version 0.97.2 — a targeted, stability-focused patch that fixes crashes, corrects UI and DPI glitches, and tunes several of the suite’s higher-profile utilities rather than adding new functionality. Background PowerToys began life as a Windows power-user...

Windows 11 quietly ships a surprising arsenal of productivity features, accessibility tools, and small utilities that power users lean on every day — features that most people never discover because they’re tucked behind context menus, keyboard shortcuts, or optional Store updates. Background /...

Microsoft’s PowerToys team is testing an optional, taskbar-like “Dock” for Windows 11 that can sit on the top (or any edge) of your screen and surface live widgets — think CPU, GPU, RAM and temperature readouts — alongside media playback controls, quick access tools, and pinned extensions from...

Microsoft’s PowerToys team is quietly prototyping a persistent, configurable “Command Palette Dock” for Windows 11 — an opt‑in, extension‑driven strip you can pin to any screen edge to surface live telemetry, media controls, clipboard snippets, and pinned Command Palette extensions without ever...

Microsoft hat das Start‑Menü von Windows 11 neu gestaltet — und die Reaktion der Anwender ist so deutlich, dass der Markt für Drittanbieter‑Tools sofort an Fahrt aufnahm. Viele Power‑User und IT‑Administratoren sehen die neue, dreigeteilte Start‑Ansicht als Rückschritt in puncto Dichte...

For years, my Start menu felt like a ritual I didn’t enjoy: click the Windows icon, wait for the UI to load, hunt through pinned tiles and a “Recommended” feed, and hope the search box finally returned the file or app I needed. I stopped doing that. Instead I rebuilt the way I launch things...

Microsoft’s PowerToys team is quietly prototyping an opt‑in, persistent “Command Palette Dock” for Windows 11 — a thin, positionable menu bar that can host pinned Command Palette extensions and glanceable telemetry much like the top bars in macOS and many Linux desktops. Background PowerToys...

Microsoft’s PowerToys team is quietly prototyping a persistent, optional “Command Palette Dock” for Windows 11 that acts like a second, configurable taskbar — a slim, extension-driven strip you can pin to any screen edge and populate with live widgets, quick actions, and favorite PowerToys...

Microsoft is quietly prototyping a persistent, customizable top bar for Windows 11 — not as a forced redesign of the shell, but as an optional dock surfaced through PowerToys' Command Palette that brings macOS‑ and Linux‑style glanceable system controls and widgets to the Windows desktop...

Microsoft’s PowerToys team is quietly testing a configurable, persistent “Command Palette Dock” — a slim, positionable menu/status bar that can live on any screen edge and surface pinned Command Palette extensions, system telemetry, and media controls as an optional PowerToys feature...

Microsoft’s PowerToys team is quietly prototyping a Mac- and Linux-style top bar for Windows 11 — a configurable, persistent “Command Palette Dock” that can host glanceable system telemetry, media controls, and pinned tools, and that can be positioned on any screen edge as an optional PowerToys...

Microsoft’s latest PowerToys experiment — a persistent, positionable “Command Palette Dock” that can live at the top, bottom, left, or right edge of your screen — is quietly reshaping what many of us consider the Windows desktop to be. The feature is optional, built on the PowerToys extension...

Microsoft’s PowerToys team is quietly prototyping a macOS‑style, positionable menu bar for Windows 11 — the “Command Palette Dock” — that would let you pin live widgets, app shortcuts and Command Palette extensions to a persistent, highly configurable strip anchored to any screen edge...

Microsoft’s PowerToys team is quietly experimenting with a new, optional UI surface called the Command Palette Dock — a persistent, positionable bar that brings a macOS‑style top menu / Linux‑style panel to Windows 11 as an opt‑in PowerToys feature, and the prototype is now open for developer...

Microsoft is quietly testing a secondary, configurable UI strip for Windows 11 via PowerToys — a persistent “Command Palette Dock” that can host live telemetry, media controls, clipboard snippets and pinned extensions, and be positioned on any edge of the screen as an optional, lightweight...

Microsoft’s experimental PowerToys work has produced a strikingly familiar idea: a slim, positionable menu/status bar — the Command Palette Dock — that can live at the top (or any edge) of your Windows 11 desktop and surface pinned Command Palette extensions, live telemetry, and quick actions...

Microsoft’s PowerToys team is quietly prototyping what it calls a Command Palette Dock — a slim, persistent bar you can pin to any screen edge that surfaces PowerToys extensions, media controls, and glanceable telemetry without opening the Command Palette or digging through Quick Settings. The...

Microsoft’s PowerToys team is quietly experimenting with a persistent, customizable menu bar for Windows 11 — a lightweight “dock” driven by the existing Command Palette system that brings macOS- and Linux-style quick access and status widgets to Windows as an opt‑in PowerToys experiment...