Microsoft PowerToys Cheat Sheet

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Microsoft PowerToys Cheat Sheet

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Functions

Power Toys Run
Alt+Space
A quick luncher
Mouse Highli­ghter
Win+Sh­ift+H
Highlight mouse clicks
Quick Accent
Press Left, Right or Space after holding down the target letter
Quick Accent is an altern­ative way to type accented characters

Screen

Always On Top
Win+Ctrl+T
Pin a window
Find My Mouse
Left Ctrl twice
Find the mouse
Mouse Jump
Win+Sh­ift+D
Quickly move the mouse pointer
Text Extractor
Win+Sh­ift+T
Copy text from anywhere on screen
Crop & Lock Thumbnail
Win+Ct­rl+­Shift+T
Crop & create a thumbnail of another window
Crop & Lock Reparent
Win+Ct­rl+­Shift+R
Crop an applic­ati­on's window into a cropped window
Screen Ruler
Win+Sh­ift+M
Measure pixels on your screen
Color Picker
Win+Sh­ift+C
Pick a color

Files

Peek
Ctrl+Space
A quick and easy way to preview files
Image Resizer
Mouse Right Click
Resize images from right-­click context menu
Power Rename
Mouse Right Click
Rename files and folders from right-­click context menu
File Locksmith
Shift+­Mouse Right Click
A Windows shell extension for checking which files are in use and by which processes

Comments (1)

TME520 07:36 6 Feb 2024

Nice document. Could you add these two shortcuts: - Crosshair: Win + Alt + p - Plaintext paste: Win + Ctrl + Alt + v

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