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Overview
For PowerToys, we are a rapid incubation, open source team aimed to provide power users with ways to squeeze more efficiency out of the Windows 10 shell and customize it for individual workflows. As we see opportunities to help improve everyone's productivity, we will reassess our priority list of work and adjust as needed. We shared a document back in February 2020 that outlined what we thought was a good roadmap and list of goals when we started on developing PowerToys into what it is now.
With us sharing the roadmap, we hope to give transparency on what we are going to be focusing on. We'll start picking items off the top of backlog to provide a more agile motion. If you feel strongly about an issue we haven't started on and would like to try and resolve / add / correct it, please let's have a discussion and kick off the workflows. We also have the 'help wanted' tag which are other items we feel strongly would be good things for the project but aren't something we're prioritizing.
We'll also start shifting into a 'preview' and 'stable' mode for our utilities which then will make sure stability is an evergreen item.
Current planned large work items
| Status | Title | GitHub # |
|---|---|---|
| Active | Simplifying / Reducing UAC for installer | #15516 #15517 Work has been done to drastically improve this but two more items needed |
| Active | Improved SysTray flyout/context menu | #6751 |
| Active | PowerToys Peek | #80 |
| Evergreen | Stability for all existing bugs | Bugs |
| Evergreen | Accessibility work for all PT | Multiple issues |
Backlog
- Shortcut Guide v2 - #890
- Migrate UX's to standardize on WinUI 3 - #891
- Presentation mode - On-screen overlay of commands / shortcuts - #981
- KBM Map to custom keys / diacritic character, not just keycode - #6976
- Quick Terminate App - #322
- Adjust how fonts Render - #6918
- Customize context menu #33
- Auto-Update feature disabling for enterprise environment - #2701
Completed
| Status | Title | GitHub # |
|---|---|---|
| Complete | Paste as plain text | #1684 |
| Complete | GIF / Video Screen Record | #143 |
| Complete | Support ARM64 processor support | #490 |
| Complete | Remove all .NET Fx dependencies | #8557 |
| Complete | Update to .NET 6 (Requires Pipeline shift for installer) | #12285 |
| Complete | Add in Monaco based preview pane to boost dev language support | #1527 |
| Complete | Upgrade prompt with what is new (Scoobe) | #14536 |
| Complete | Settings to WinUI3. (including KBM) | #6715 |
| Complete | Presentation mode - Highlight mouse when clicked | #13808 |
| Complete | Always on top | #13 |
| Complete | Mac Style "Find cursor" ease of access (shake to find) | #131 |
| Complete | Who has my file in use | #114 |
| Complete | Screen measuring tool | #863 |
Shipped utilities
- Awake
- Color Picker
- FancyZones
- File Explorer Add-ons
- Image Resizer
- Keyboard Manager
- PowerRename
- PowerToys Run
- Shortcut Guide
- Video Conference Mute