Microsoft Windows 95 PowerToys Making a Comeback!

[Progman]

Microsoft is open-sourcing PowerToys on GitHub, so anyone can contribute and create power user tools for Windows 10.

The first two utilities that Microsoft is working on for Windows 10 are a new maximize to desktop widget and a Windows key shortcut guide. The maximize to desktop widget places a pop-up button over the maximize button when you hover over it. It’s designed to let you quickly send an app to another desktop, utilizing Windows 10’s multi-desktop view. The Windows shortcut guide utility simply shows a keyboard shortcut guide when you hold down the Windows key.

Microsoft is also considering 10 other utilities for these new PowerToys for Windows 10:

1. Full window manager, including specific layouts for docking and undocking laptops
2. Keyboard shortcut manager
3. Win+R replacement
4. Better alt+tab including browser tab integration and search for running apps
5. Battery tracker
6. Batch file re-namer
7. Quick resolution swaps in task bar
8. Mouse events without focus
9. Cmd (or PS or Bash) from here
10. Contents menu file browsing

Repo: https://github.com/Microsoft/PowerToys

 

Windows Calculator was already open sourced here: https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator

Apparently it will soon feature a graphing mode.