What Are The Features Of The New Windows 10 Power Toys? Other Windows Power toys in Windows XP included Wallpaper Changer, Calculator Plus, ISO image burner, Image resizer etc. It is not clear why Microsoft discontinued PowerToys after Windows XP but the good news is that they are coming back as opensource available at Microsoft’s GitHub. The first Microsoft PowerToys project included TweakUI utility that allowed users to customize Windows appearance easily, which otherwise require tweaking the registry. But it seems Microsoft has finally realized the importance of these small utilities and has begun developing PowerToys for Windows 10. Although Windows XP PowerToys did work fine in Windows Vista and 7, there were no such tools for Windows 8 & 10 users until the recent reappearance. However, after Windows XP Microsoft stopped developing them for later operating systems like Windows Vista, 7 and 8. Windows XP users had access to Windows PowerToys and were significantly used back in the days.

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