If you're old enough to remember Windows 95, you probably remember the original Windows PowerToys, a collection of utilities developed by the Windows 95 shell team and distributed free of charge to ...

These five free utilities will give your Windows XP or Vista machine some Windows 7 pizzazz. Sign up here. AeroSnap: Maximizing a window on today's large monitors is often a waste of screen space. In ...

Microsoft has released PowerToys 0.97 with CursorWrap mouse utility for multi-monitor cursor wrapping and major Command ...

PC World magazine’s big feature series on free PC software included this listing of free Windows utilities that includes everything from desktop organizers to apps for cleanly removing unwanted ...

Windows 10 PowerToys: How to activate and use the Mouse utilities app Your email has been sent Despite the continuing roll out of the Windows 11 update, users of Windows 10 still need their tweaks, ...

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Microsoft’s powerhouse collection of useful Windows utilities, PowerToys, is adding the ability to strip out an audio track from a video file, plus the more general ability to transcode video files as ...

I've tried plenty of Windows utilities over the years, and most sit unused after the initial download. The problem isn't that they don't work—it's that juggling dozens of single-purpose tools gets ...

One thing that always annoys me about Windows is that I never really feel like I know how long my laptop battery has before it runs out — and, conversely, how long it will be before it’s fully charged ...