PowerToys for Windows are back in a big way. It was a set of utilities introduced for Windows 95 in the mid-90s and was re-born as a community-driven project now available for Windows 10 and 11.

In this session, I'll demo some of the PowerToys tools that I find most valuable as a developer on Windows. The utilities that we'll explore include:

Advanced Paste
Awake
Color Picker
Crop and Lock
FancyZones
Mouse utilities
PowerToys Run
Workspaces
ZoomIt (also part of Sysinternals)

By the end of this session, I hope you'll be inspired to find your own favorite PowerToys or even become a contributor to the project!

This session works best as a lightning talk, but it can be expanded to a 30- or 40-minute talk by covering the tools in more details.