Microsoft PowerToys

PowerToys is less an app than a shelf of independent tweaks bolted onto Windows — a fancy window-snapping grid, a bulk file renamer, a color picker, a run launcher, a keyboard remapper. The unifying surface is a settings dashboard with a left-rail list of modules, each toggled on or off and configured in its own pane. That structure is honest about what the product is: a toolkit, not a coherent whole. Each utility tends to live by its own hotkey and its own conventions, so muscle memory is per-tool rather than global. The settings shell does real work taming this, giving every module a consistent enable switch, hotkey field, and live preview. Discovery still depends on browsing the list to learn what's even there.