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It started out as a way to launch things on your PC.

It’s a must-have for power users and those who want to get the most out of their PCs.

Powertoys Run

Powertoys Run

However, soon this feature will be natively available, and slightly better even than the third-party offering.

Quick access to a calculator

Sure, Windows 11 has a calculator app.

But with PowerToys Run, you don’t even need it.

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PowerToys Run will soon have official, native support for winget.

It’s definitely quicker and more convenient even than using PowerToys Run to launch the calculator app.

This will launch me straight into a terminal window, loaded into Fedora, ready to roll.

For this you better use your mouse (the horror!)

Using Winget to install apps through PowerToys

PowerToys Run will soon have official, native support for winget.

and opt for option to run as Administrator.

PowerToys Run respects your choice of default web online window.

So it’s better.

Using PowerToys Run built-in calculator

No need to launch the calculator application, just drop your numbers into PowerToys Run.

Hopeful it could remove the need to use the Start Menu.

I couldn’t operate without it.

PowerToys Run has the ability to trigger terminal commands.

Just fire off a quick terminal command in PowerToys Run.

Searching Windows Settings through PowerToys Run

Fast and accurate Windows Settings searches through PowerToys Run are superior to using the Start Menu.

Searching for files using PowerToys Run

It relies on keeping on top of indexing, but PowerToys Run is a nifty file search tool.

Launching a web address from PowerToys Run

PowerToys Run has a quick and easy way to launch your favorite website.

Accessing the Windows Registry through PowerToys Run

As long as you know even roughly what you need to get at, this is so much simpler than poking about the Registry Editor.

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