However, the Elevation PowerToys could always come in handy. With Windows 7, Microsoft has relaxed UAC, allowing users more control over the level of nagging produced by the feature. Run as Another User Prompt Here as System for CMD and Windows PowerShell and Drag-and-drop Elevation Gadget. In this sense, the PowerToys have been offering options such as: Run as Administrator for third-party scripting tools They’re definitely worth a look if you’re a Windows power user, and the PowerToys team is adding new experimental tools and utilities all the time so check back often to see what’s new.Ĭheck them out at, or go straight to the releases page for the latest installer.The Elevation PowerToys pack for Windows Vista was designed in order to make it easy for users faced with a high volume of elevation tasks to keep User Account Control enabled. The other is the Image Resizer, a shell extension that offers bulk image resizing via a right-click context menu, which is incredibly useful when you’ve got a bunch of 20 megapixel images off your DSLR camera and you want to email copies to somebody without breaking the internet.Īlongside those, there are a bunch of tools for video conferencing, batch renaming files, and organising your Windows desktop – I’ve heard that Fancy Zones is fantastic if you’ve got one of those ultra-super-mega-widescreen wraparound displays. One is the Windows key shortcut guide – hold down the Windows key for more than a second and an onscreen guide pops up telling you all the available shortcuts: There’s two that particularly stand out for me. They’re free-as-in-beer, they’re free-as-in-speech (MIT license), and they’re really rather good. Anyone remember FindX? Anyone…? Anyone…?įast-forward a few decades, and the PowerToys are back – this time for Windows 10. It included some things that were genuinely useful – like being able to right-click any folder and open a command prompt in that folder – and some stuff that was, um, less useful, like the FindX tool that added a drag’n’drop capability nobody wanted to a Find menu nobody ever used. Way back in the days of Windows 95, Microsoft released a set of freeware utilities called the PowerToys for Windows 95. Dylan's Advent of Cool Nerd Things Day 9: Microsoft PowerToys Posted by Dylan Beattie on
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