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Great video - I use quite a few of these. Two other tips: 1) File Locksmith - checks which files are in use.. useful especially to see what is blocking a disk from being ejected or what files a process is locking. 2) Powertoys Run - has many uses. I use it to quickly launch apps and files, as a quick calculator, starting/stopping services, finding registry keys and more The power renamer is also good but takes a bit of work to get into.
This is one of the most comprehensive PowerToys overviews I have seen. Thank you! I remember using it on Windows 95 and 98. It certainly has come a long way since then.
I have known about Powertoys for years. But I do not use them often. You explain their usefulness in a crystal clear way, calm and to the point. Thank you!
Wow! That was like being shown Aladdin's cave, full of treasures. I've already downloaded it and now tweaking it for what I need. Thank you so much for this - very useful indeed.
I wish she would have told us about the margin toggle switch with fancy zones. It took a while to turn them off. Thank you Leila! I appreciate all you do! I bought 3 of your MS Power courses!
oh leila thank you so much. i read an article about this but suffice it to say this makes things much clearer! i have been scouring the internet for something like fancy zones and can't wait to try it. thanks for sharing!
Thank you, Leila, for this in-depth tutorial. I've been using power toys for a while and am attempting to demonstrate them to coworkers. As I need to do a lot of online training, I use the Focus on the mouse the most. The list of shortcuts is one I was unaware of. I'm familiar with some of them, but this is such a creative way to present them. Thank you very much...
It should be noted that if you install Power Toys, it will significantly increase your boot time at start-up. For me, it added 24 seconds from power on to Windows Desktop screen. I don't really use that much but will keep the software for future use. Thanks
I have always loved power toys and they change how I use windows. Truthful I thought it had been discontinued. Thanks for showing the updated toys! I used to use always on top exactly like you to keep my stickies where I can see them.
I am a data analyst and work on a 50 inch 4k TV as my monitor. It would be a huge pain if I didn't have Fancy Zones. It's so incredible! I have a bunch of different layouts that I can activate with hotkeys depending on what I'm working on.
This is excellent to see. I had totally forgotten about PowerToys and used to have it as part of my standard toolkit back in the day. Thank you for such a great presentation on it overall, as well as going in depth on some of the most commonly used tools.
First Leila I want to say thank you. Not only are you knowledgable but you have a beautiful demeanor & calming presence about you. I love your tutorials. You are my first "Go To" person whenever I have a problem that I need help with. Today, I have a simple request. Where do you get your sticky notes? The colored ones are not me. Actually, anyone can answer if you know the answer. Thanks to All
My favorite power toy is using the Keyboard Manager to remap the F1-F12 keys to shortcuts. You can find the customized keys file in the folder %localappdata%\Microsoft\PowerToys\Keyboard Manager The keyboard settings can be shared as a json file. You could save a settings file for each application, for example.
Hi Leila, I always appreciate the content you share on this channel, it's amazing learning is endless. I work in finance department, one of the thing that I am struggling with is to create and maintain a working calendar that have different color for different categories (at least 10 categories) and also shared among different team members for collaboration. Using excel is good, but involve too much manual intervention. Using sharepoint calendar has a limitation of showing more than few items on a certain day. Not sure if you have some great idea to share on calendar management tips/tricks.
I already used the Find my mouse in combination with the CTRL-radar, the Windows+V (multi-clipboard, the Paste as Text. I will probably use the Pick color and the Keep in front a lot! Thanks for the great presentation!
Fancy Zone is something I've been wanting for years. I found some third-party apps long time ago, but they did not were as integrated as I wish they would be, and I stopped using them. I found some very nice, pretty advanced integrated tools on Linux, and I was wondering why Microsoft wouldn't catch up. Now I've discovered Fancy Zones, that makes me save a lot of time, and those scattered windows won't make me angry anymore!
extremely grateful for this ! Obviously always on top is really helpful, but extracting text from photos excites me. People screenshot me daily and this will reduce my time significantly! Thank you for all you do!
I personally use the mouse finder during PowerPoint presentations for a better looking way to show things (IMO it looks much better than the default red dot pointer).
I used to download separate software to pin any window on top of another. After knowing powertoys some moons ago, it really have awesome features. My top feature is Always ontop and mouse utilities.
Just curious - do you have some software that kalibrated or changes the color/hue of the screen? 'cus I know that Color Picker is (usually) nor able to poke throught the altered colors...
I can't believe I never heard of PowerToys before, what an useful set of tools, when we install Windows Microsoft prefer to advertise some third-party apps than it's own useful software lol. Thank you very much, I'm so glad I found this video.
would you consider doing a review of the tools for windows tablets in Tablet Pro STUDIO? They are unique tools (like powertoys) that you can't find anywhere else. Makes using desktop apps much much easier with pen and touch. comparable to keyboard and mouse speeds. Thank you Leila, great video as always!
One of my favorite tools is the samradapps excel date picker, which let's you pick up dates in an excel sheet. MS haven't added something like this for decades which I don't understand.
Great tutorial. I will definitely download them and use them with my Windows 10 PC. Do the Power Toys start up automatically with Windows, or do I need to manually start them after every boot up?
Fabulous! Didn't even know these existed. Love it when find new features. Already loving the 'Always on top'. Much appreciated for the video. Thank you.
I am glad that the PowerToys are back, at least I think they were taken away some years ago. I am definitely going to add them to my toolbox! Thanks Leila. Happy holidays!
Thank you for another great reminder of the little things. I was disappointed that Microsoft eliminated Gadgets from Windows 10 and 11, and was even more disappointed that there was no option to display a floating image of clocks on the desktop. I ended up installing Gadgets on my Windows 10 machine because I work with people from five countries, and scheduling meetings is a mess. Microsoft allows adding two time zones to your computer clock, but this is limited in display and the number of clocks. Going backward to Gadgets solved the problem. I with they had it in Power Toys. Happy and healthy 2023!
Terrific. I admit I've looked at powertoys every few years then forgot about them. But the current crop look really handy and I'm back on board with them. Thanks
Nice video power toys is a handy program but knowing it's features can be tough to figure out. A simple demo like your's really helps.. thanks you're on my subscribe list now that I've found you.
Thank you for the video! I enjoyed how you constantly mentioned if something didn’t work you could go about it another way. Microsoft has been at it for 6 decades and they come out with software called Power Toys and they have to give you alternate ways of doing what they’re supposed to do! A few years back I bought an iPhone then I bought an Apple TV and all I had to do was hold my phone up to the Apple TV and it set itself up, no problems, no work arounds.
@@keiganthetennessean1796 lol you’re right, I was born in 1966 and just turned 57 but been in 7 decades. I don’t recall anything about the 60’s but neither do most people who lived through it 😂
I recently already watched a video from you and I thought ur so cute and professional. And now you do this video about towertoys. I love this collection, just like SysInternals, but this collection of tools is really good for everyday job life. I'm an architect and just changed to one of the biggest offices in germany and told the IT, include it into every station! Already I told my office before...this is so useful! The colorpicker for creatives..the renamer, new now i've read is an option to figure out processes that prevent a file from being accessed cause if "in use". Up to today i used process explorer from the sysinternals suite for this special problem of windows that occours from time to time, and with powertoys it's possible now too they say. i have to find out, good i remind me for that :DD Oh..and the coolest, but also easiest and fastest way to install powertoys is thru winget per shell :)
Wow… I remember this from windows 95 and only just this morning I started to need a better windows layout tool… and now you popped up to help.. Thank you ❤
For screenshots - SHAREX (select area, file is saved, folder with file selected is open). For images FastStone Image Viewer (you hit F3 and mass resize, change format, add items and many many more all in seconds). I mostly use resize to 50% selected in FastStone.
Another amazing instructional video as always, Leila! Thank you for making it and sharing these helpful tools. I was happy that my IT department authorized installing PowerToys and I'm sorry I didn't watch this one and ask them about it 6 months ago! Wow, so many favorites! Paste as Plain Text, Always on Top, Find My Mouse/Highlighter, Color Picker, and Zones are very handy to my work! Building new muscle-memory keystroke habits to activate them will be the key that allows me remove my newest PostIt note that's now affixed to my monitor haha. Thank you again for the excellent video.
Thank you. That video was a very helpful , as usual ;-) I got one request: Could you maybe make a video about how to handle an invitation management with MS Forms? (or if you already did please be so kind and point me to it) We are having a big event coming up and I am in charge to send out invites (200-300 Persons) for this function. I usually do this with the serial letter/mail function in MS Word in combination with MS Excel and Outlook. That works very well. But the rsvp's I have to handle manually. I type the answers into Excel one by one. But couldn't this be easier done with an RSVP-Form link in the Invite? How would you do that? If you find this a good topic for I video, I would be glad and really appreciate it.
Can you suggest a screen ruler more in terms of just working with two screens and support the need to have a ruler on screen like you would on a piece of paper?
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Hi, Hope you are feeling better now..
Great tools. Thank you and take care of yourself.
Thanks a lot and Hope you're fine
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Hope you are feeling better - everything sounded fine!
Great video - I use quite a few of these. Two other tips:
1) File Locksmith - checks which files are in use.. useful especially to see what is blocking a disk from being ejected or what files a process is locking.
2) Powertoys Run - has many uses. I use it to quickly launch apps and files, as a quick calculator, starting/stopping services, finding registry keys and more
The power renamer is also good but takes a bit of work to get into.
This is one of the most comprehensive PowerToys overviews I have seen. Thank you! I remember using it on Windows 95 and 98. It certainly has come a long way since then.
Thank you Craig.
This was an amazing presentation of something that has been hidden in plain sight!!
They actually abandoned it and only brought it back a couple years ago. It's on github now.
And it's still under construction
Great video. But they have some bugs in a few features. I hope they will fix them soon.
This should be by default on Windows !
But it's not...I bought a new laptop with windows 11 and still needed to download it.
You have this in KDE, Gnome, Cinnamon since ages.
It will be...in a couple of years
I have known about Powertoys for years. But I do not use them often. You explain their usefulness in a crystal clear way, calm and to the point. Thank you!
Wow! That was like being shown Aladdin's cave, full of treasures. I've already downloaded it and now tweaking it for what I need. Thank you so much for this - very useful indeed.
Glad you like it!
I wish she would have told us about the margin toggle switch with fancy zones. It took a while to turn them off. Thank you Leila! I appreciate all you do! I bought 3 of your MS Power courses!
oh leila thank you so much. i read an article about this but suffice it to say this makes things much clearer! i have been scouring the internet for something like fancy zones and can't wait to try it. thanks for sharing!
Only yesterday I was wishing for more windows snap areas and then this video came out. Thank you Leila. This is God sent
Thank you, Leila, for this in-depth tutorial. I've been using power toys for a while and am attempting to demonstrate them to coworkers. As I need to do a lot of online training, I use the Focus on the mouse the most. The list of shortcuts is one I was unaware of. I'm familiar with some of them, but this is such a creative way to present them. Thank you very much...
It should be noted that if you install Power Toys, it will significantly increase your boot time at start-up.
For me, it added 24 seconds from power on to Windows Desktop screen.
I don't really use that much but will keep the software for future use. Thanks
Well don’t have it run on startup then.
@@oo0Spyder0oo Nope, not now. It's set up to do that by default.
Awesome! I used to use Deskpins to keep a window on top but will switch to this now.
OMG. I have been using 3rd party apps for all these features. You gave me a single solution for all these. Really helpful. Thanks
Most welcome 😊
I have always loved power toys and they change how I use windows. Truthful I thought it had been discontinued. Thanks for showing the updated toys!
I used to use always on top exactly like you to keep my stickies where I can see them.
I am a data analyst and work on a 50 inch 4k TV as my monitor. It would be a huge pain if I didn't have Fancy Zones. It's so incredible! I have a bunch of different layouts that I can activate with hotkeys depending on what I'm working on.
This is excellent to see. I had totally forgotten about PowerToys and used to have it as part of my standard toolkit back in the day. Thank you for such a great presentation on it overall, as well as going in depth on some of the most commonly used tools.
First Leila I want to say thank you. Not only are you knowledgable but you have a beautiful demeanor & calming presence about you. I love your tutorials. You are my first "Go To" person whenever I have a problem that I need help with. Today, I have a simple request. Where do you get your sticky notes? The colored ones are not me. Actually, anyone can answer if you know the answer. Thanks to All
I never knew... Thank you! Started using some of the tools practically before they finished installing :).
Perfect!
Never knew these PowerToys! Thank you Leila for this quick tutorial to get started! 🙂I will use them now on.
I, too, had played with these years ago and dismissed them. This video has me excited. Thank you!
I'm curious what will be your favorite.
I have been using image resize for years as a stand alone plugging, but I didn't knew the other tools, thanks a lot!
My pleasure, Karina.
My favorite power toy is using the Keyboard Manager to remap the F1-F12 keys to shortcuts.
You can find the customized keys file in the folder
%localappdata%\Microsoft\PowerToys\Keyboard Manager
The keyboard settings can be shared as a json file. You could save a settings file for each application, for example.
You can do this easily in Gnu Linux.
In settings you can designate shortcuts for every need you have.
Thank you for this simple explanation
Hi Leila, I always appreciate the content you share on this channel, it's amazing learning is endless.
I work in finance department, one of the thing that I am struggling with is to create and maintain a working calendar that have different color for different categories (at least 10 categories) and also shared among different team members for collaboration. Using excel is good, but involve too much manual intervention. Using sharepoint calendar has a limitation of showing more than few items on a certain day.
Not sure if you have some great idea to share on calendar management tips/tricks.
I'd love to find this too!
Wanna follow up
I already used the Find my mouse in combination with the CTRL-radar, the Windows+V (multi-clipboard, the Paste as Text. I will probably use the Pick color and the Keep in front a lot! Thanks for the great presentation!
Fancy Zone is something I've been wanting for years. I found some third-party apps long time ago, but they did not were as integrated as I wish they would be, and I stopped using them.
I found some very nice, pretty advanced integrated tools on Linux, and I was wondering why Microsoft wouldn't catch up.
Now I've discovered Fancy Zones, that makes me save a lot of time, and those scattered windows won't make me angry anymore!
Thanks for this video , A lot of useful short cut keys were presented here
Great Tool, Thanks for sharing I think Always on top and Bulk image resize will help me.
Window Walker is quite useful. Helps me find out opened application. It's much quicker than win+tab or alt+tab when you have too many apps open.
extremely grateful for this ! Obviously always on top is really helpful, but extracting text from photos excites me. People screenshot me daily and this will reduce my time significantly! Thank you for all you do!
WOW, that is amazing. I’m in need of few already. Thank you so much.
You had me at mouse finder (I literally needed that 5 minutes before I started this video) and fancy zones sealed the deal. Thanks for this.
Those are interesting utilities. Thanks for posting. Feel better soon and Happy Holidays.
Thank you! Same to you!
Thank you Madam, its always enriching to watch your videos, I am learning a lot about MS OFFICE
I personally use the mouse finder during PowerPoint presentations for a better looking way to show things (IMO it looks much better than the default red dot pointer).
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Great video, thanks !
Glad you liked it!
I used to download separate software to pin any window on top of another. After knowing powertoys some moons ago, it really have awesome features. My top feature is Always ontop and mouse utilities.
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I personally loved the Color Picker, it helps a lot in my job as a developer
Just curious - do you have some software that kalibrated or changes the color/hue of the screen? 'cus I know that Color Picker is (usually) nor able to poke throught the altered colors...
I can't believe I never heard of PowerToys before, what an useful set of tools, when we install Windows Microsoft prefer to advertise some third-party apps than it's own useful software lol.
Thank you very much, I'm so glad I found this video.
Thank you so much!! Never knew and now I do!!! :)
The always on top is a real game changer! Especially if you are using a touch screen applications.
would you consider doing a review of the tools for windows tablets in Tablet Pro STUDIO? They are unique tools (like powertoys) that you can't find anywhere else. Makes using desktop apps much much easier with pen and touch. comparable to keyboard and mouse speeds. Thank you Leila, great video as always!
One of my favorite tools is the samradapps excel date picker, which let's you pick up dates in an excel sheet. MS haven't added something like this for decades which I don't understand.
Great tutorial. I will definitely download them and use them with my Windows 10 PC. Do the Power Toys start up automatically with Windows, or do I need to manually start them after every boot up?
I was using fancy zones for awhile but boy did I miss a lot of useful stuff for many years. Thanks
I've used windows for years, knew about, but never used Power Toys. I will know. Great video!
I love utilities like this. I look forward to learning more about what it does.
I had no idea. This will change the way I work. ! Thank you
I already used some of the "toys", but your explanations revealed some hidden features I've not discovered yet.
Just wanted to say Thank you. I've been meaning to get into power toys for some time and I love how succinct and relevant you made it. Great job!
Awesome! Thank you!
Brilliant video - thanks 👍👍👍👍😃😃
Glad you enjoyed it
I've been using Fancy Zones for 6 months or so and LOVE it!!
It's awesome!
Fancy zones and always on top are my favorites since they make multitasking easier...
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Fabulous! Didn't even know these existed. Love it when find new features. Already loving the 'Always on top'. Much appreciated for the video. Thank you.
Hi Leila. They are so much clearer when properly explained - thank you.
Thank you so much for the good work, we really appreciate it.
Kindly create for us Introduction to python"lessons as well.
I love your channel. You always have very useful information.
I am glad that the PowerToys are back, at least I think they were taken away some years ago. I am definitely going to add them to my toolbox! Thanks Leila. Happy holidays!
Great video content. The only downside is that 'you' can't cash in on all the time we'll now be saving during our workday.
Thanks for the video! Interesting tools indeed. Still no focus follow mouse? It has been there for years on *nix systems...
Useful, facy zones, ocr and mouse tools ftw!
You made my life so easier, always on top was something i needed for a long time. Thank you very much
Glad I could help!
Thank you for another great reminder of the little things. I was disappointed that Microsoft eliminated Gadgets from Windows 10 and 11, and was even more disappointed that there was no option to display a floating image of clocks on the desktop. I ended up installing Gadgets on my Windows 10 machine because I work with people from five countries, and scheduling meetings is a mess. Microsoft allows adding two time zones to your computer clock, but this is limited in display and the number of clocks. Going backward to Gadgets solved the problem. I with they had it in Power Toys. Happy and healthy 2023!
Terrific. I admit I've looked at powertoys every few years then forgot about them. But the current crop look really handy and I'm back on board with them. Thanks
Nice video power toys is a handy program but knowing it's features can be tough to figure out. A simple demo like your's really helps.. thanks you're on my subscribe list now that I've found you.
Its one of the must have tools in Windows, that i directly install after every Windows installation😉😉
Thank you for the video! I enjoyed how you constantly mentioned if something didn’t work you could go about it another way. Microsoft has been at it for 6 decades and they come out with software called Power Toys and they have to give you alternate ways of doing what they’re supposed to do! A few years back I bought an iPhone then I bought an Apple TV and all I had to do was hold my phone up to the Apple TV and it set itself up, no problems, no work arounds.
@@keiganthetennessean1796 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, 00’s, 10’s and 20’s
@@keiganthetennessean1796 lol you’re right, I was born in 1966 and just turned 57 but been in 7 decades. I don’t recall anything about the 60’s but neither do most people who lived through it 😂
Thank you Leila 🙏🏻
You’re welcome 😊
Wow it's really grown up since the old days. Thanks for reminding me of this!
👍
Thanks for this!
Thanks for your videos and particularly this one,
Is there a similar version for android devices,
Just curious
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My life is getting easier with every video you upload thanks ❤
GREAT summary. All appear incredibly useful. THANK YOU!
Glad you enjoyed it!
this is definitely going to be one of those apps to always have installed on my computer!
Thank you for another well made instructional video. You make it very easy to follow and your accent is great as well.
Thank you very much!
I recently already watched a video from you and I thought ur so cute and professional. And now you do this video about towertoys. I love this collection, just like SysInternals, but this collection of tools is really good for everyday job life. I'm an architect and just changed to one of the biggest offices in germany and told the IT, include it into every station! Already I told my office before...this is so useful! The colorpicker for creatives..the renamer, new now i've read is an option to figure out processes that prevent a file from being accessed cause if "in use". Up to today i used process explorer from the sysinternals suite for this special problem of windows that occours from time to time, and with powertoys it's possible now too they say. i have to find out, good i remind me for that :DD
Oh..and the coolest, but also easiest and fastest way to install powertoys is thru winget per shell :)
I'm very interested in Text Extractor as a writer., and also Color Picker. Thanks Leila 😁
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Wow… I remember this from windows 95 and only just this morning I started to need a better windows layout tool… and now you popped up to help.. Thank you ❤
You are welcome!
IT's like Google can read your mind, ain't it?
Win+Shift+T, didn't know. Thank you very much & Happy Christmas
I guess I will vouch for the text extraction tool.. that's a next level ocr app
For screenshots - SHAREX (select area, file is saved, folder with file selected is open). For images FastStone Image Viewer (you hit F3 and mass resize, change format, add items and many many more all in seconds). I mostly use resize to 50% selected in FastStone.
Oh wow. Thanks for the informative video. I've been wishing for some of those features for years.
That's amazing I should try this 👍
Instant subscribe and it's my regret not having subscribed so far... Many thanks!
Glad to have you aboard!
Amazing video again, Leila. Thank you so much ❤
One of the best tutorial on UA-cam, thank you
Wow, thanks!
Thanks 🧡 a great sharing :)
Excelent set of tools, thanks for sharing!👍
You are genius Leila Gharani. I appreciated your tips for windows and other application programs.
Another amazing instructional video as always, Leila! Thank you for making it and sharing these helpful tools. I was happy that my IT department authorized installing PowerToys and I'm sorry I didn't watch this one and ask them about it 6 months ago! Wow, so many favorites! Paste as Plain Text, Always on Top, Find My Mouse/Highlighter, Color Picker, and Zones are very handy to my work! Building new muscle-memory keystroke habits to activate them will be the key that allows me remove my newest PostIt note that's now affixed to my monitor haha. Thank you again for the excellent video.
Thank you for making this video. All these tools are very useful.
these are some great tools, thanks for sharing :)
Quick Accent is my favorite. Especially for accessing special characters and symbols.
Thank you. That video was a very helpful , as usual ;-)
I got one request: Could you maybe make a video about how to handle an invitation management with MS Forms? (or if you already did please be so kind and point me to it)
We are having a big event coming up and I am in charge to send out invites (200-300 Persons) for this function. I usually do this with the serial letter/mail function in MS Word in combination with MS Excel and Outlook. That works very well.
But the rsvp's I have to handle manually. I type the answers into Excel one by one. But couldn't this be easier done with an RSVP-Form link in the Invite? How would you do that?
If you find this a good topic for I video, I would be glad and really appreciate it.
Brilliant! Thank you!
Super for giving this utility. I have started using it right now.
Excellent!
Wow so many useful features! Thanks as always!!
Your videos are so professional! Well done!
Can you suggest a screen ruler more in terms of just working with two screens and support the need to have a ruler on screen like you would on a piece of paper?
You're amazing🤩✨✨!!!
Thank you for making great videos💗💗💗!!
Really amazing video...its made my work easy...thanks...keep posting 👌👌💐💐🙏🙏