If you were a user of Windows 95 and Windows XP, then you might recognize the name Power Toys, which was about 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 their source code is available from GitHub, where from there users can also make suggestions, build their own apps or 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.
In this original version of Power Toys includes a shortcut wizard for Windows, as well as “FancyZones”, which allows you to set up predefined targets to drag apps to, which will then maximize and fill a predefined zone.
Watch the relevant video below:
Also included is one screen recorder that outputs animated GIFs. To download the current set, and if you're running Windows 10, go here.
