The miracle of PowerToys, Microsoft’s last great Windows app

Microsoft PowerToys feels like something that shouldn’t exist in Windows today. What started in 2019 as a couple of utilities for things like window and shortcut management has gradually expanded to nearly 30 useful tools, including a keyboard shortcut creator, an image-to-text extractor, and a better search bar than the one that’s built into Windows proper. PowerToys has become wildly popular among Windows power users, with than 70M downloads to date, but it’s also completely free, with no ads, Office upsells, or ham-fisted Copilot integrations.