Far back in the lost aeons of the very late 20th century, Microsoft started offering a handy little set of tools for Windows 95 called the PowerToys – some of them, including TweakUI ...

Microsoft PowerToys is a set of free system utilities designed for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity. Originating from the Windows 95 era ...

PowerToys is intended to provide a suite of operating ‘tweaking' tools similar to the set of freeware tools that Microsoft used to provide for Windows 95 and Windows XP. Among the tools included ...

To unlock some extra features beyond what’s in base Windows, you’ll need to install an optional app called Microsoft PowerToys that offers plenty of cool capabilities that you’ll certainly ...

Windows 95 became popular very quickly. Windows 95 improved networking and added long file names and Plug and Play, the latter a welcome relief for users. Memory limitations, plaguing users in ...

Essentially, how this works is, the Shortcut Guide module in PowerToys allows you to hold down the Windows key on your keyboard and see an on-screen overlay that shows you partially context-aware ...

Welcome to the final edition of Microsoft Weekly for this year and what a year it has been. Just like last time though, we have a relatively shorter digest today owing to the holidays season ...

Microsoft has pushed a small servicing update for PowerToys on Windows 11 and 10. Version 0.82.1 is now available on GitHub with a bunch of fixes. Namely, the update resolves crashes on Windows 11 ...

Windows 95 has the honor of being one of the most revolutionary operating systems ever created. Although Microsoft already had a GUI-based operating system in Windows 3.11, Windows 95 was completely ...

It’s now 25 years ago that Windows 95 was launched, the operating system that gave the majority of 1990s PC users their first taste of a desktop-based GUI and a 32-bit operating system.

When Windows 11 arrived, it received a rather lukewarm reception - something that continues up until today, in some respects (as evidenced by the OS adoption figures) - and some of that reaction ...

Now, there’s a world record speedrun, installing Windows 95B in just 1 minute 10.9 seconds. The current best attempts are collected in a Google Sheets document. So far, there have been few ...