microsoft/PowerToys
Microsoft PowerToys is a collection of utilities that supercharge productivity and customization on Windows
Recommended between 2025-09-10 and 2026-05-04. Last pushed 2026-11-02.
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What hackers say
“powertoys is a set of first party customization utilities, one of which is a pretty nice keyboard remapper.”
— canthonytucci, 2026-05-04 · original comment on Hacker News ↗
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If you’re on windows, powertoys is a set of first party customization utilities, one of which is a pretty nice keyboard remapper. https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys
Criticism
“Microsoft PowerToys took 4 years to implement "select UI language" feature.”
— falldrown, 2026-03-21 · original comment on Hacker News ↗
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No surprise. Microsoft PowerToys took 4 years to implement "select UI language" feature. https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/7670
“Powertoys has had some weird bugs over the years:”
— gadders, 2025-09-10 · original comment on Hacker News ↗
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Powertoys has had some weird bugs over the years: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/410 I can't find it now, but I think it also used to crash outlook if you put mailto: links in emails.
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