| x64 | [](https://dev.azure.com/ms/PowerToys/_build/latest?definitionId=219&branchName=main&jobName=Build%20x64%20Release) | [](https://dev.azure.com/ms/PowerToys/_build/latest?definitionId=219&branchName=stable) | [](https://dev.azure.com/microsoft/Dart/_build/latest?definitionId=76541&branchName=main) |
| ARM64 | [](https://dev.azure.com/ms/PowerToys/_build/latest?definitionId=219&branchName=main) | [](https://dev.azure.com/ms/PowerToys/_build/latest?definitionId=219&branchName=stable) | [](https://dev.azure.com/microsoft/Dart/_build/latest?definitionId=76541&branchName=main) |
Microsoft PowerToys is a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity. For more info on [PowerToys overviews and how to use the utilities][usingPowerToys-docs-link], or any other tools and resources for [Windows development environments](https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/dev-environment/overview), head over to [learn.microsoft.com][usingPowerToys-docs-link]!
Go to [Microsoft PowerToys GitHub releases page][github-release-link], click on `Assets` at the bottom to show the files available in the release. Please use the appropriate the PowerToys installer that matches your machine's architecture. For most, it is `x64`.
Install from the [Microsoft Store's PowerToys page][microsoft-store-link]. You must be using the [new Microsoft Store](https://blogs.windows.com/windowsExperience/2021/06/24/building-a-new-open-microsoft-store-on-windows-11/) which will be available for both Windows 11 and Windows 10.
There are [community driven install methods](./doc/unofficialInstallMethods.md) such as Chocolatey and Scoop. If these are your preferred install solutions, this will have the install instructions.
This project welcomes contributions of all types. Help spec'ing, design, documentation, finding bugs are ways everyone can help on top of coding features / bug fixes. We are excited to work with the power user community to build a set of tools for helping you get the most out of Windows.
We ask that **before you start work on a feature that you would like to contribute**, please read our [Contributor's Guide](CONTRIBUTING.md). We will be happy to work with you to figure out the best approach, provide guidance and mentorship throughout feature development, and help avoid any wasted or duplicate effort.
Most contributions require you to agree to a [Contributor License Agreement (CLA)][oss-CLA] declaring that you have the right to, and actually do, grant us the rights to use your contribution.
For guidance on developing for PowerToys, please read the [developer docs](/doc/devdocs) for a detailed breakdown. This includes how to setup your computer to compile.
- PowerToy utilities now ship with self-contained .NET 7, meaning it's not necessary to install .NET as part of the installer and it's easier to keep up to date.
- It's possible to pick which of the installed OCR languages is used by Text Extractor by selecting it in the right-click context menu.
- Added a setting to sort the order of the accented characters by usage frequency in Quick Accent.
- Added support for dark theme. Thanks [@niels9001](https://github.com/niels9001)!
- Increased default input delay to improve out of the box experience.
- Fixed a bug causing the first character to not be selected when opening the overlay. Thanks [@davidegiacometti](https://github.com/davidegiacometti)!
- Fixed the positioning of the overlay when showing near the horizontal edges of the screen.
- C++ code analysis no longer runs on release CI to speed up building release candidates. It still runs on GitHub CI and when building locally to maintain code quality.
- Cleaned up "to-do" comments referring to disposing memory on C#. Thanks [@davidegiacometti](https://github.com/davidegiacometti)!
- Added a fabric bot rule for localization issues.
- Fixed a CI build error after a .NET tools update.
- Update the Windows App SDK dependency version to 1.2.
- When building for arm64, the arm64 build tools are now preferred when building on an arm64 device. Thanks [@snickler](https://github.com/snickler)!
- Updated the C# test framework and removed unused Newtonsoft.Json package references.
- Updated StyleCop and fixed/enabled more warnings. Thanks [@davidegiacometti](https://github.com/davidegiacometti)!
The PowerToys team is extremely grateful to have the [support of an amazing active community][community-link]. The work you do is incredibly important. PowerToys wouldn’t be nearly what it is today without your help filing bugs, updating documentation, guiding the design, or writing features. We want to say thank you and take time to recognize your work. Month over month, you directly help make PowerToys a better piece of software.
The application logs basic telemetry. Our Telemetry Data page (Coming Soon) has the trends from the telemetry. Please read the [Microsoft privacy statement][privacy-link] for more information.
