Note: We’re republishing this story from Sept. 6, 2019, because an update has added multiple-monitor support to FancyZones, which resolves one of its few outstanding issues. If you’re a fan of Windows ...

Every so often, a tool comes along that changes how you work, and makes you wish that you’d started using it sooner. For me, that tool is FancyZones, which is technically a feature of Microsoft’s ...

It's easy to complain about Windows 11 feeling stagnant or only forcing customers to use features they don't care about, and it's fairly clear why we do that. There isn't a whole lot of exciting stuff ...

Following the big PowerToys 0.75 release on Monday, Microsoft pushed a quick bug-fixing update to resolve issues with two PowerToys modules—FancyZones and PowerToys Run. Windows apps should now snap ...

The developers of the open-source Microsoft PowerToys tool for Windows 10 have released a new update with four new utilities and multi-monitor support for the FancyZone layout utility. PowerToys ...

Developers have released a modest but important update for the open-sourced rendition of Microsoft's 1990s-era PowerToys Windows power-user utility. PowerToys, for those too young to experience ...

PowerToys has a new update that brings it to version 0.1.6.0. The update brings improvements to FancyZones and several new utilities. The update also brings over 100 fixes to issues. Microsoft's ...

PowerToys is a free and open-source app that lets you customize the behavior of your Windows PC. While it packs dozens of tools and utilities, you can use these if you’re just getting started: ...

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If you've been a PC user since the days of Windows 95 and Windows XP, then you may recognize the name PowerToys from a set of Microsoft-developed system utilities. After a few generations on the shelf ...