How to use PowerToys | Downloads & Release notes | Contributing to PowerToys | What’s Happening | Roadmap |
Architecture | Solution (Main) | Solution (Stable) | Installer (Main) |
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ARM64 |
Microsoft PowerToys is a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity. For more info on PowerToys overviews and how to use the utilities, or any other tools and resources for Windows development environments, head over to learn.microsoft.com!
Go to Microsoft PowerToys GitHub releases page, click on Assets
at the bottom to show the files available in the release. Please use the appropriate PowerToys installer that matches your machine’s architecture and install scope. For most, it is x64
and per-user.
Description | Filename | sha256 hash |
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Per user - x64 | PowerToysUserSetup-0.73.0-x64.exe | BA55D245BDD734FD6F19803DD706A3AB8E0ABC491591195534997CF2122D3B7E |
Per user - ARM64 | PowerToysUserSetup-0.73.0-arm64.exe | FBFA40EA5FFA05236A7CCDD05E5142EE0C93D7485B965784196ED9B086BFEBF4 |
Machine wide - x64 | PowerToysSetup-0.73.0-x64.exe | 7FDA06292C7C2E6DA5AEF88D8E9D3DE89D331E9E356A232289F9B37CE4503894 |
Machine wide - ARM64 | PowerToysSetup-0.73.0-arm64.exe | 4260AA30A1F52F194EE07E9E7ECD9E9F4CF35289267F213BC933F7A5191AC17C |
This is our preferred method.
Install from the Microsoft Store’s PowerToys page. You must be using the new Microsoft Store which is available for both Windows 11 and Windows 10.
Download PowerToys from WinGet. Updating PowerToys via winget will respect current PowerToys installation scope. To install PowerToys, run the following command from the command line / PowerShell:
winget install Microsoft.PowerToys -s winget
winget install --scope machine Microsoft.PowerToys -s winget
There are community driven install methods such as Chocolatey and Scoop. If these are your preferred install solutions, you can find the install instructions there.
Collection of third-party plugins created by the community that aren’t distributed with PowerToys.
This project welcomes contributions of all types. Help spec’ing, design, documentation, finding bugs are ways everyone can help on top of coding features / bug fixes. We are excited to work with the power user community to build a set of tools for helping you get the most out of Windows.
We ask that before you start work on a feature that you would like to contribute, please read our Contributor’s Guide. We will be happy to work with you to figure out the best approach, provide guidance and mentorship throughout feature development, and help avoid any wasted or duplicate effort.
Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you have the right to, and actually do, grant us the rights to use your contribution.
For guidance on developing for PowerToys, please read the developer docs for a detailed breakdown. This includes how to setup your computer to compile.
Our prioritized roadmap of features and utilities that the core team is focusing on.
In this release, we focused on releasing new features, stability and improvements.
Highlights
For v0.74, we’ll work on below:
The PowerToys team is extremely grateful to have the support of an amazing active community. The work you do is incredibly important. PowerToys wouldn’t be nearly what it is today without your help filing bugs, updating documentation, guiding the design, or writing features. We want to say thank you and take time to recognize your work. Month over month, you directly help make PowerToys a better piece of software.
This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct.
The application logs basic telemetry. Our Telemetry Data page (Coming Soon) has the trends from the telemetry. Please read the Microsoft privacy statement for more information.