If you were a user of Windows 95 and Windows XP, then you might recognize the name Power Toys, which was associated with a set of system utilities developed by Microsoft.
After a few generations that Power Toys remained on the shelf, the idea is back and now available first edition for Insider of Windows 10.
This set of utilities and o Source Code they are available from GitHub, where from there users can also make suggestions, create their own applications or to report problems.
The then original set of Power Toys utilities was useful for classic tasks such as creating an autoplay CD or entering registry settings into the Control Panel via TweakUI.
A guide is included in this initial release of Power Toys shortcuts for Windows, as well as “FancyZones”, which allows you to set predefined targets to drag applications, which will then maximize and fill a predefined zone.
Watch the relevant video below:
Also included is a recording screen that outputs animated GIFs. To download the current set, and if you are running Windows 10, go here.