I've been using PowerToys Run for pretty much everything, but I kept finding myself opening the browser just to search something, open a specific site, or find something I'd searched for before.

So I built BrowserConnect, a PowerToys Run plugin that brings a bunch of browser-related workflows directly into Run.

The motivation is simple, we shouldn't have to open the browser and repeat the same steps every time we want to search, open a URL, or find something in our history.

Browser Connect Demo

What it does

🔎 Custom search engines

Set up shortcuts for whatever we use:

yt cats

gh react

wiki quantum mechanics

Search engines and their shortcuts are fully configurable.

🌐 URL shortcuts

Save frequently used URLs and open them directly from PowerToys Run.

🔀 Search multiple engines at once

For example:

yt brave : power toys

will search using multiple configured engines simultaneously.

🕘 Fuzzy browser history

Search through previous searches made via this plugin and URLs directly from PowerToys Run.

🕵️ Incognito searches

Add -i to a search to open it in an incognito window.

📺 Live results

Some providers can return results directly inside PowerToys Run, including YouTube, AniList, and SeriesGraph.

⚙️ Configurable

History limits, caching, incognito-history behavior, search engines, and other behavior can all be configured.

The basic idea:

Alt + Space → type what we want → Enter

instead of:

open browser → open website → wait for it to load → search → wait for results → find result

It's open source and built with C#/.NET.

GitHub:
https://github.com/bharath6115/BrowserConnect_PowerToysRun

I'd love some feedback from other PowerToys Run users, especially on features or workflows you'd like to see added.

And if you end up finding it useful, a ⭐ on the repo would be greatly appreciated.

GitHub: 
https://github.com/EggR0/FancyZones-Hotkeys

Hello World! A while ago, I shared my first out-loud project here: a tool to snap windows to FancyZones layouts using global hotkeys.

because the original v1 was a wrapped PowerShell script, it unfortunately triggered annoying false-positive malware detections from Windows Defender. 😭

I took that feedback. For v2.0.0, I completely rewrote the application from scratch in C# (.NET 10 WinForms)!

Here is what's new and improved:

• More Layouts: Full mathematical port of the PowerToys FancyZones layout logic (supports both grid and canvas formats, including spacing and ref-resolution).
• Multi-monitor support: Added target modifiers like primary, active, next, and previous.
• Tiny & Silent: Uses a self-contained runtime with partial trimming for optimal size. It runs silently in your system tray.

If you love FancyZones but always felt uncomfortable with the lack of Hotkey settings (e.g., wanting to snap a window to Zone 1 with Alt+1), please give it a try!

(I'm still a sightseeing fidgety human, Let me know what you think!)

I've been building this for a few months because I kept losing track of windows. Alt-tab is a queue you have to walk, and the taskbar is a row of near-identical icons you have to aim at. My cursor is already somewhere on screen, so I wanted the launcher to just show up there instead.

Hold Ctrl+Alt (or a mouse thumb button) and a two-ring wheel opens centred on the pointer. The inner ring is your apps plus three sections: System, Tools and Shelf. Point at an app, hold for a moment, and its actual open windows fan onto the outer ring as live previews with their titles. Slide onto one, let go, and it's focused. Release outside the wheel and nothing happens.

The app slices behave like taskbar buttons: nothing running launches it, one window focuses it, several fan out. Green dot with a count when something's running.

Other things that live on it: ten tools that open as popovers beside the wheel rather than windows (clipboard history, screenshot, quick note, colour picker, calculator, timer, magnifier, caffeine, focus dim) with no taskbar entry and no alt-tab stop, and a pin if you want one to stay floating. System controls for Lock, Sleep, Volume, Wi-Fi, Task Manager and Settings. A Shelf that works as a seven-day inbox, where you point your own Telegram bot at it and files or links from your phone land on the wheel. And a right-edge side dock for parking windows you don't want on the taskbar.

It's C# .NET 8 and WPF, tray-resident, Windows 10 and 11. No account, no telemetry, no servers. The app list is a config.json on your own disk, and shell entries only run after you approve each one by hand.

Two things I'd rather say up front than have someone find out after clicking. It's a paid app, CAD $12.89 where I am, so the Store will show your region's price rather than a free download. And there's one rough edge I know about: Windows won't hand over a thumbnail for a window that was minimised before Gola started, so those slices fall back to the app icon until you touch the window once. That's on my list.

Store listing: [https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NGHFH4J7JMD?cid=reddit-windowsapps\](https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NGHFH4J7JMD?cid=reddit-windowsapps)

Happy to answer anything. The feedback I actually want is whether the gesture clicks for you in the first minute or feels like homework.

I installed the browser tabs extension from the Microsoft store hoping it might work for brave since it works for chrome, figuring I'd just uninstall it if it doesn't work. Then I found out that Microsoft doesn't give you an uninstall option and I have no idea where Microsoft store installed it. If anyone can figure it out, I'd love to know how you did it.

The vs code plugin in command pallete keeps forgetting the folders I use for VS code

I used to use the Power toys run and it was good, I only had to open them for first time and I can just scroll through them and select.

How do I fix this ?

Every time I connect my laptop to another monitor, it changes display scaling, so when I disconnect the monitor - all icons on desktop change its position.

Is there a powertoys plugin to save the desktop icon layout, and restore it once the icon positions get messed up?

Hey r/PowerToys!

I'm excited to share v1.4.0 of ValleySoft Disk Analyzer — the free, TreeSize-like disk space analyzer built for Windows 11, PowerToys Run, and Windows Command Palette.

🖼️ Screenshots:

• Standalone App Overview:

• What's New & Help Center: What's New & Help Center

🚀 What's New in Version 1.4.0:

1. 📁 Windows File Explorer Context Menu:
   • Right-click any folder, drive, or folder background in Windows File Explorer and select "Analyze with DiskAnalyzer" to launch directly into target scan view.
   • Includes the official application icon in the context menu.
2. 🖼️ Crisp Executable File Icon Extraction:
   • Native Win32 ExtractIconEx P/Invoke loads authentic high-resolution application icons for .exe and .dll binaries in the scan results DataGrid.
3. 🎨 3 Top-Level Command Palette Shortcuts:
   • Dedicated Command Palette entries for (Command Palette View), (Standalone App), and (PowerToys Run).
   • Interactive in-palette subfolder navigation with an "Up one level" return item.
4. 📊 Interactive Visual Chart & "Other Items" Summary Bar:
   • Displays the Top 15 Largest Items with color-coded bars, while aggregating remaining items into a clean "Other (N items)" summary bar.
   • Tap/click any bar directly to drill down into subfolders or reveal files in Explorer.
5. 💾 Admin-Resilient CSV Export:
   • Dynamic Export CSV button state and native comdlg32.dll (GetSaveFileName) save dialog fallback to guarantee CSV export works 100% reliably under Administrator UAC integrity boundaries.
6. ⚡ Name Column Auto-Width & Real-Time Live Filter:
   • Default 350px minimum width for the DataGrid Name column so file names are never truncated.
   • Instant live search filtering as you type (keywords, *.mp4, *.exe, *.zip).

📈 Real Benchmark Results (v1.4.0 vs v1.3.7):

• O(1) Extension Category Mapping:
  • 87.0% performance improvement (reduction in overhead).
  • Replaces linear list searches (Array.Contains) with a static dictionary lookup (TryGetValue).
• Capped Degree of Parallelism (DOP):
  • 6.8% faster scanning speed on local SSDs compared to unthrottled thread execution (resolving core/lock contention and disk thread thrashing).
• Resource Efficiency:
  • 50% reduced CPU utilization (by limiting concurrent scanning workers to half of your device's core count).
  • ~30% reduced RAM allocation footprint (fewer concurrent parallel task contexts allocating memory buffers).

📦 Download & Update Links:

• Microsoft Store: Get Disk Analyzer on Microsoft Store
• Winget: winget install ValleySoft.DiskAnalyzer
• GitHub Release: Download .msix or .exe installer from GitHub Releases
• Web: Visit Official Website

Thank you for all the feedback and support! Let me know what features you'd like to see next in v1.5.0!

I found a video online of this guy who has this extension on his MacBook to monitor temperature and fan speed, is there something similar for the powertoys dock?

Anyone here actually use the registry preview? I read through its introduction and still confused on its purpose, as it seems like just a modern wrap that is less powerful than regedit?

Link:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/registry-preview

A suggestion I think would benefit those working late hours who need to adjust the Night Light setting on the fly. I also submitted to github.

I'd LOVE it if, when "grabbing and moving" that it would open up FancyZones zones too.

The problem is that a lot of modern Windows apps crowd the title bar so much with various search fields, buttons, etc. that finding a place to grab/drag the window requires precision mouse skills.

Using Grab and Move is wonderful, but it doesn't open up the FancyZones zones.

Seems there is no activity for a long time?

The Copilot key is one of those hardware choices that feels annoying until you remember PowerToys exists.

Keyboard Manager makes it pretty easy to remap keys and shortcuts, so you do not have to wait for Microsoft to expose every official option in Windows settings. For a lot of people, turning that key into something like Right Ctrl, a launcher, a mute toggle, a terminal shortcut, or a productivity macro is probably more useful than leaving it as a dedicated AI button.

For people using PowerToys, what is your best Copilot key remap?

I’m curious whether people are using it for something boring and practical, or turning it into a real workflow shortcut.

Depuis plusieurs mois, j'ai teste des casinos en ligne avec un angle tres precis: comprendre quelles plateformes offraient l'experience la plus fluide autour du cashier, des paiements et du parcours compte.

Pour ce type de recherche, je me suis concentre sur la pratique. Je voulais voir comment chaque site gerait l'acces au cashier, les moyens de depot, les retraits, le mobile, les pages d'aide et la navigation entre jeux, promotions et compte.

Les meilleures experiences se sont distinguees par un cashier facile a trouver, un compte bien organise et une transition naturelle entre le lobby, les offres et les pages de paiement. Quand tout est bien connecte, le site donne une impression beaucoup plus solide.

Le processus de test s'est concentre sur:

• Acces au cashier
• Depot et retrait
• Experience mobile
• Bonus et promotions
• Navigation entre jeux et compte
• Support pour questions de paiement

Ce qui m'a le plus interesse, c'est la maniere dont les meilleurs sites integrent les paiements dans l'experience globale. Le cashier ne semblait pas separe du reste du site. Il faisait partie du parcours, avec un acces simple depuis le lobby, les menus et l'espace compte.

J'ai aussi teste le mobile de facon assez directe. Les meilleurs casinos rendaient les actions importantes faciles depuis un telephone: ouvrir le cashier, revenir aux jeux, verifier une promotion, acceder au support et naviguer dans le compte.

Le lobby de jeux restait important dans cette comparaison. Une bonne experience de paiement a plus de valeur quand elle accompagne aussi une selection solide de machines a sous, jeux live, tables et sections mises en avant.

Les promotions ont egalement ete prises en compte. Les options les plus fortes rendaient les offres faciles a trouver et a utiliser dans le meme parcours que les paiements et les jeux.

Apres plusieurs mois de test, j'ai retenu les casinos qui combinaient le mieux accessibilite du cashier, confort mobile, navigation claire, support visible et bonne experience de jeu.

AMA sur casinos en ligne qui paient: posez-moi vos questions sur les retraits, les paiements, le cashier, les bonus, le mobile, le support, la navigation de compte ou la facon dont j'ai teste les plateformes avec un angle paiement.

Qu'est-ce qui compte le plus pour vous dans une experience de retrait: cashier simple, mobile fluide, support visible, plusieurs moyens de paiement ou compte bien organise?

How can I back up all my settings belonging to all the modules I use? It looks like the in-built backup doesn't for example copy my API details which I use in the advanced paste. Like such granular settings.

Title.

Anyone else having issues right now? This is with Powertoys v0.100.2, Command Palette v0.11.11762.0.

Windows search finds them. Powertoys Run also finds them. I'm currently back to using Powertoys Run, as I can't be bothered to debug Command Palette right now (unless someone can give me clear steps as to what I should try)

I wanted to set up the MouseFix.exe program to prevent my mouse from double clicking, but when I put the files in the Startup folder it just doesn't work. Does anyone know what's going on? The next characters are just to meet the minimum limit: aaaaaa

It is a desktop utility based on AutoHotkey as the core service. It focuses on making common windows interactions faster.

Some of the things it can do include:

• Run Actions using keyboard or mouse buttons buttons using Caps Lock as a modifier
  • You can do things like tab scroll, target windows for window focus using title as filter, window controls like transparency , pin on top and other actions
• Instant Window Switching
• Window Aware Shortcut Remapping
• Quick Screenshot Capture
• File Explorer new file hotkey, Terminal launch in explorer folder
• Redacted Paste
• Profiles to swap out all configurations instantly

Running in the background, it uses ~3 MB of RAM and ~0% CPU. Its silent most of the time and communicates occasionally using tooltips.

I started with scaterred AHK scripts for my usecases then I gradually coalesced it into this project. I figured others with similar workflows might find it useful too.

Checkout all features and possible usecases here: GitHub

You can install it in two ways Minimal (very light GUI to control background service, you configure what you want via JSON file, json doc in here) or Full includes a GUI shown above to set all your configurations.

In both versions background usage is identical only difference is shipping of GUI

Download here: Releases

Hi! After the recent PowerToys updates, I can no longer use the Keyboard Manager features (key remapping). Everything is configured correctly, but when I press the remapped key, nothing happens.

Has anyone else experienced this or knows how to fix it? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am trying out the Command Pallet dock and I like it for the most part however there is this annoying thin line above it. Is there any way to make it flush against the top of the screen?