

With the latest release, Microsoft has made PowerToys open-source, opening the door for developers to collaborate and build better and more functional utilities for the platform.Ĭurrently, PowerToys offers a bunch of different utilities to help you with various operations on your computer. Later, after a lull for a few years, the company eventually released another update to PowerToys in 2019. A few years later, it released its second iteration with Windows XP, as a separate download.

Microsoft debuted the first version of PowerToys with Windows 95. Microsoft PowerToys is a collection of utilities for Windows operating systems to help you perform operations more efficiently and streamline your workflow.
