I like the utility that shows you what is keeping a file open if you can’t delete or update it. The file open problem used to happen a lot in the past and the only way to clear it was to reboot.

@asadfarraj

10 ай бұрын

There used to be a problem for that, I forget the name, but yeah, good to have it here.

@CyberPsychGaming

10 ай бұрын

Resource Monitor's --> CPU tab --> Associated Handles section --> type in the file/folder name in 'search handles' box and press enter. It will list the program/service using it.

@zeromant80

10 ай бұрын

There was a program called “Unlocker” it only works for Windows XP.

@wahhend

9 ай бұрын

I used to install unlocker to handle such things, the icon is a wand with a star on the end

The crop and lock feature is gonna be so awesome for accessibility, I can move one region to a larger screen. Also the jump between screens over LAN is great, I supported software back in Win7 called Synergy that did this and it’s amazing.

@carlosgois2097

10 ай бұрын

hi lexi

@carlosgois2097

10 ай бұрын

accessibility is great

@NoviTall

10 ай бұрын

Hi Lexi nice to see you here

@vladyslavhafanovych24

10 ай бұрын

Crop & Tool actually would be freaking amazing for Zoom convos! Yeah... Synergy. Wanted to use it for Linux to Windows connection but it is only in the new paid version... MWB actually was standalone from 2005, but does not support Linux... it was actually amazing they bundled it - one less App to install in case of a full Windows Clean Install

@triive.

10 ай бұрын

LEXI?! GO NARRATE R/HARDWAREGORE!

Have not touched power toys since WIn95. The ones back then were extremely useful. I did not even know they had new ones, thanks.

@LarcR

10 ай бұрын

I haven't found current power toys to be nearly as useful.

@KryzysX

10 ай бұрын

Use your own toys dude @@LarcR

@KryzysX

10 ай бұрын

I think there were the good set of tweaks that made it icon... I don't remember much about it but it helped a lot@@Raj_Pandya

@jthoward

10 ай бұрын

@@Raj_Pandya Powertoys have basically always been useful features that people at MS like, but aren't essential or simple enough to make it into Windows directly because then Microsoft would have to support them as a core feature. This means it usually has more power-user centered tools that might be too complicated or unintuitive for the average joe

@mk_rexx

10 ай бұрын

​@@jthowardMany of the old Powertoys were often included in the suceeding OS. When they stopped making Powertoys during Win7, Win8 happened lol.

Fun fact, the Paste without formatting thing can be done in most applications by just pressing CTRL SHIFT V, works on all OS ;)

Mouse without borders been around for a long time, but was standalone previously. Makes perfect sense to have it with powertoyz.

@al_exs

10 ай бұрын

I remember the Microsoft garage page where it was, it feels like it was forever ago, now I need to update my powertoys to have it

@Gsudi

10 ай бұрын

That program didn't work for me at all unfortunally. I tried to connect my Win11 PC with my Win10 Laptop. The programm didn't work and the Internet wasn't helpful in soving the issue. I assumed it didn't work in general.

@Gsudi

10 ай бұрын

Nevermind, it works now.

@mk_rexx

10 ай бұрын

Most of these are actually taken from other projects. They are all credited in each of toy's settings and in the docs.

@orderlyhippo1569

9 ай бұрын

Have you tried Input Director? It lets you have and customize keyboard shortcuts to control the mouse. For example, you could set crtl+ ` to lock the mouse to the current screen or alt + ` to change it to a different desktop.

Thanks. PT user here, never have time to get into these releases, glad to have them so nicely explained in a digestible 6 min vid. 10/10

I wish each tool was an addon/plugin that can be added or removed manually. It would make adding community addons possibile.

@SirenGlitch

10 ай бұрын

That is theoretically possible as Powertoys is open source. You could modify the source code to add a plugin and compile it

@nbrown5907

10 ай бұрын

Yes the power toys for Windows 95 could be separately installed.

@anilkumargupta8555

10 ай бұрын

Yep and altogether it's quite big like around 3gb

@ashleygreen5343

10 ай бұрын

It's possible, just add the addon to the "components" folder.

@tomaszkorytkowski1399

10 ай бұрын

@@ashleygreen5343 Is there a documentation, article, tutorial, anythig? I couldn't find anything, that's why I wrote this comment.

Mouse without borders was already an existing thing and it is amazing. Aside from some minor things like jumping to the primary monitor when going to a computer instead of coming in from the edge it's great for home multi PC setups

That registry tool looks like it will be quite useful. I work with .reg files from time to time and I'm hoping this increases productivity.

Great stuff Thiojoe! All the best from Scotland.

I've been using the FancyZones feature of PowerToys for years (on Windows 10). It's a must-have for anyone using large or multiple monitors. I think this might be built-in to Windows 11 now.

@NazmusLabs

10 ай бұрын

Yeah Win11 adopted the fancy zones feature natively haha May Allah (S.W.T.) guide you and bestow upon you His Blessings; Ameen.

The "Mouse without border" function is incredible, thank you!

Thanks for your videos..Always something to learn. Thanks again!

Paste as plain text, I accomplish this by pasting into notepad. Thank you for the videos.

Thanks. that's great coverage of the new functions. Followed.

This brings some tools I use lot in macOS and cannot use at work with Windows, so great!

Crop and lock is amazing!!! Thank you!

Excellent videos I’ve watched a couple, much better than everything else out there. You have a new subscriber.

Thank you very much, Joe. Thanks to this video, I researched and discoverd that Mouse Without Borders is available separately for download from Microsoft itself, and I saw that it works not only for the mouse, but for the keyboard as well. I was about to spend money that I don't have to buy a bluetooth keyboard just so I could easily switch between my two computers and now this has solved everything. I am very, very grateful.

I really like the Quick Accent tool! Because it enables you to use the normal US keyboard instead of the US International keyboard (which I especially use for non English languages, I am a Dutch person) which has a delayed form way of typing for things like quotes, backticks and carets, which always annoys coding experience, in which you rather want see these tokens appear immediately after typing. The idea is that you can type a character and directly follow that by pressing the spacebar, to select the associated special character, in a way that looks a bit more like the smartphone way of typing.

@claranymark

10 ай бұрын

i tried to turn it on before but it kept activating when playing games which was very annoying

Paste as plain text = ctrl-shift V

@Evolved-

10 ай бұрын

Was going to post the same thing. We already have this (ctrl+shift+v) without an extra app.

@ashleygreen5343

10 ай бұрын

That's a common application feature, but this is a global shortcut.

@arjix8738

10 ай бұрын

that is not a Windows feature, it is a feature supported by many programs, but thats all it is it is up to each program to implement that functionality PowerToys' paste as plain text is a global shortcut, that means that it works universally on all programs

Useful tools, thanks for sharing.

The registry and the crop window actually amazing.

I used to use mouse without borders when it was a standalone experiment! Very cool that it is now included.

Thanks. I always find your videos very useful.

FancyZones has dramatically improved my use of screen real estate, esp. as I can set up a custom set of window zones, even having them overlap if I like. As for Mouse Without Borders, I've found it to be buggy in mousing between my Win 11 and Win 10 systems. Until MWB becomes stable, I will continue to use Input Director which is easier to use in an ongoing basis, and has more functionality/features.

4:13 the default shortcut for Mouse Jump is easy. You can do Win+shift+D with one hand. I'd like to see the technique for doing the shortcut for Paste as Plain Text with one hand. Ctrl+alt+Win+V. Maybe it's possible to hit the V with the thumb while pressing the others with the back of the hand or something 😅.

man i hate the youtube premiere "feature" EDIT: great video though 👍

peek and paste as plain text is already very useful to me and now I'ms sure crop and lock is gonna be my next frequent use

Nice video, I've been using powertools sometimes but my human memory is stressing with so much shortcuts, I really hope microsoft at least add a new button to the TittleBar for an "Always on top window"

Thanks for the video!

Peek is so useful at times. Been using it since it came out, I have w10. And one I use from time to time is Text Extractor.

@Glaxes

10 ай бұрын

Personally I don't like peek, a better application would be quicklook, its open source and has more features

Got Powertoys a few months ago, it's so amazing!!

Wow this was cool. More please!

i know this is an older feature but Fancy Zones for mulitple monitors is the main reason i use Power Toys and it is very useful on multiple and/or large screen monitors to set up having multiple windows and tools open at one time.

@Ali3nh3art

10 ай бұрын

i love fancy zone

Thank you @ThioJoe for that nice programm that will help me in some work.

That "place as plain text" tool is just what I was looking, but didn`t know such tool exists. Thanks a lot. Before I had constantly a Windows editor text file opened and copied text into it and then copied over from there to remove formatting 😅

@GaryB007

10 ай бұрын

Ctrl+Shift+V pastes plain text, without the need for any tools.

@j_a_e_r

10 ай бұрын

@@GaryB007 Thanks, but that didn't work for me before. With power toys I was able to use a custom shortcut.

@arjix8738

10 ай бұрын

@@GaryB007 you realise that it is not a universal thing, right? you are just used to a lot of programs supporting that shortcut that you assumed it was a universal thing

HI thio!, how to change Text Cursor Indicator so if we use two languages -> we will not allways need to see the lang bar. in windows 7 the blinking text cursor have some little triangle (right-to-left) thanks!

Thanks, TJ~

power rename (batch rename) also got some nice improovements :)

Thank you, king! That bloody name, I haven't heard of it since Windows XP

I have been powertoys for a while now and it's pretty amazing. glad to soo new features

I was trying for the longest time to find a way to have a single mouse and keyboard control both my work laptop and my home PC. I know I could just buy a switch (which I did) but it was really cumbersome and the delay after clicking the switch for the laptop/PC to recognize the devices was annoying. All the solutions I found software-wise were only working on a local network. Out of curiosity you mentionned "I think mouse without borders works only on the local network" but I figured I could give it a try: My work laptop is connected through a VPN to my company network which made other solutions unable to be used. However it looks like it works with mouse without borders !! Thank you so much !

Peek is cool, but QuickLook is more useful for me. Maybe in future releases they will add a display content feature. For now, I can just view only media files. That's all. In my case, I want to see content of file (js, php, cmd, txt) and watch media files. So waiting next release and your awesome video. Like it

Thanks 🙏🏻 🖤

Good sort of toys, thanks

Have you reviewed Microsoft PC Manager (beta) yet? Very cool tool. On my old work notebook which only has 16 GB Ram, I use close to 32 GB when running 2 instances of VS 2022 64 bit. This is using a SSD so I don't feel it getting slow. However, there are times where I'm almost out of memory and this tool auto clears some for me which is really nice.

My favorite tool is umm... I still have to wait for the premiere.

@marcinjanoska3345

10 ай бұрын

as a person after the premier, this is a you problem :P

@albertethan

10 ай бұрын

Yeah

Thank for the info. I love powertoys

Still gave a big thumbs up because the video was really helpful!

I love mouse without borders, been using it for so many years

I only needed to disable F7 key, but cool that you can use for other stuff

damn I severely underestimated how interesting this video would be lots of great features added

Premier is almost like waiting for my favorite TV show to go live.

Thank you for the reminder. I just installed it. For me, "Nice".

The cursor without borders is something I will have to try. I use 2 computers at time, and a 2nd mouse is somewhat annoying at times.

What was that search bar he opened up at 4:57. Is there a shortcut for it?

Paste as plain text.. is Ctrl - Shift - V it generally works everywhere except some office products.

I bet it's an incredibly useful set of tools for Windows even if we had heard you talk about it before.

Mouse Without Borders seems like a more complex version of KDE Connect... though Connect can only use your phone as a mouse. not the computer one across devices

Powertoys run with the everything plugin is just chef's kiss

Im downloaded powertools like 1 mont ago. And i love it now

Guys, gentle reminder..... Just a very small thumbs up as per ThioJoe 😁

@Hyperboid

10 ай бұрын

did you download the subtitles?

@_SJ

10 ай бұрын

@@Hyperboid Nope

@Hyperboid

10 ай бұрын

​@@_SJthen how did you get this comment in hours early?

@_SJ

10 ай бұрын

@@Hyperboid Channel membership 🙂 My way of support to my most favorite KZreadr 👍🏻

oh, I always delayed installing it, but these are awesome

Had the exact same experience when trying to use Peek. Opened the window with the spinning windows circle and just sat like that for >5mins. Not sure what the problem is, but overall isn't really a deal breaker for me.

One tool I found to be too annoying to use was Quick Accent By the way, when I like a video, it's because I find it useful and I want to save it for future reference, though it's usually easier to search for videos I want to watch again. I saved this one for future reference

Didn't know you use it to. I love powertoys. 1 program with many solutions. I also use intel unison. Makes my desk a powerhouse.

Color picker is a realy cool tool!

1:38 CTRL+Shift+V

mouseWithoutBorders is a tool i use on daily basis it is a microsoft garage project, good to know that they added the functionality itself in the powertoys, but i will still continue using the software separately as i don't like the roundy bubbly GUI provided in powertoys.

I wish Mouse Without Boarders worked on smart devices. Would give old devices new purpose and reduce e-waste.

I think what the key remapping needs profiles is saves which is a no brainer and an ability to switch between profiles.

I'm not sure if just using ctrl+shift+v is doing the same as paste as plain text function in the end

Can't you use Ctrl + Shift + V to paste without formatting even without powertoys?

Can mouse without borders work across OS’s like an iPad or something?

God video I now now some useful tool I had no idea thy egsisted

I am so glad to making this to be official instead of some external tools, for example Meazure.

‏‪2:05‬‏ In File Explorer, pressing Alt + P opens the preview pane

@phizc

10 ай бұрын

That's not the new PowerToys thing. Selecting a file and pressing ctrl+space opens a new window with a preview of the file. PT's Monaco based text preview in Explorer is broken for me on Win11, so it's nice to have.

The paste as plain text, peek, registry preview, mouse jump features aren't new but they're good anyways oh and the text extractor language change was always there for me.

Mouse Without Boarders - Allows you to use 1 Mouse and keyboard to control up to 4 PC's next to each other. (You said nothing about the keyboard being shared.) This is fantastic for me as I have been using "Share Mouse" which limits me to 2 machines unless I pay $49.

6:11 no, here's an italic thumbs up _👍_

Pleasse do a video explaining what windows troubleshooting actually does. Because it sure as hell never fixed my problem.

Mouse Jump, Fanzy Zones, and Run are super critical.

2:10 on peak,change the default keyboard shortcut.and it should work.

Crop and Lock sounds extremely interesting, though, realistically I will never use it at all, but still.

@maevwat

10 ай бұрын

it will be really helpful to me as a dev, I can have logs onscreen without wasting space taken by the ide

I think the registry one may be pretty useful

It's been very useful in remaping keys, I got small keyboard, that doesn't have all keys, and I couldn't map all of them with other programs....

Is there overlap between Power Toys and The Windows Club's Ultimate Windows Tweaker? Is one more complete than the other? And here I thought UWT was a replacement for Power Toys.

I loved the Alfred application on the MacOS and i used Wox as an alternative for windows 11. But now, i feel that windows 11 including wox (as a collaboration, atleast) as a native alternative is a bliss to all the "maximum producitivity" users. It looks better than wox itself too.

@ts.tanishqsingh

8 ай бұрын

And yes, I was, infact, unaware that powertoys run was a thing (since, I only recently got to know about the powertoys application itself)

@ThioJoe Hey how about a similar video on Systernals?

Can you add your old TJ logo on the thumbnail for nostalgia? :)

Whats the difference from the PowerToys paste vs just using Ctrl+Shift+V?

@amrojjeh

10 ай бұрын

The program has to implement the latter. PowerToys should have it work everywhere

@arjix8738

10 ай бұрын

Ctrl+Shift+V is not a universal feature, it is just widespread enough for you to assume that it is

Everyone should get this. I find the window pinning function incredibly useful, but I have only scratched the surface of the other tools. Why is it not part of Windows?

Thiojoe OP in the chat

I was using Chocolatey to update miscellaneous Windows installations on my machine when I decided to learn how Microsoft's WinGet works. To my surprise, WinGet can pull the most recent repo of PowerToys!

Peek was extremly annyoing when it was first introduced. If I would press strg + space (for example in a game) it would always cancel the keypress event somehow. I belive it has been fixed now.

This is so cool even for normal consumer

The Peek feature brings Mac's Quick Preview to Windows, and I love it, but it doesn't behave as good as it should. I prefer QL-win's QuickLook, a FOSS project that the same thing but better IMO.

Finally, some actual good features..

Crop and Lock sounds like a dance move all the cool kids are doing