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[-] Sailing7@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago

Microsoft Power Toys

Absolute gamechanger.

[-] aesopjah@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

What do you use it for that has made it a game changer?

[-] Sailing7@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

SysAdmin. The OCR Feature is a blessing to get masses of text from sended in screenshots, or Webinterfaces of devices that try to fight the user when they try to copy some text from it ^^

The Always on Top Feature... fuck where do I start.

When shit gets stressful and you are just trying to fix a thing asap but your view is bloated with the applications from your previous task, it can be unbelievable practical to use the always on top feature.

Mostly use it on windows that i want to have as a small but always on top space where i can interact with application xyz or even a small fresh notepad to type down what the customer is blubbering into my phone while I try to get as many information possible and troubleshoot the problems at the same time.

Sorry for the absolute shitty written text. I'm in a hurry.

Powerrename with optional Regex (Regex only with support of chatGPT. Noone can tell me they actually understand regex ^^) Though PowerRename i use more often as a Pirate.

Paste Text only - OMFG this feature.. without it i would quit my job and search for anotherone where i can deploy it on my maschine. It stripes out every non-text from the text you have copied. So formatting and all that bullshit is gone. Its's bliss. As a regular office worker this should also be a gamechanger. Noone ever wants to copy the formatting from one document to another. You mostly just want the plain damn text.

Maybe the cut and resize feature will be also soon on my favourites list but i havent tested it that much so far.

Oh and another app i love:

ShareX.

It has never been easier to show someone what they have to click or where error xyz occurs. Just create a border that you want to record in .mp4 format, do your stuff there, klick stop and send a very nice and small videofile to your opponent. Absolutely everyone that got a video from me was thankful for not having to read 4 paragraphes of text but instead was able to just watch a 30secs video and understand everything. I sometimes even use it in documentation for other sysadmins. Very helpful if the task is complex and would take up lots of text to explain. Create a short clip and everyone understands you.

[-] PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago

I have two monitors, and I like one rotated portrait mode. FancyZones makes so I can split my screen in ways that make sense. If I didn't have PowerToys's FancyZones, then I'd be extremely limited with how my windows show up.

Like...splitting windows in half horizontally is not a thing. You have to make it a quarter first then drag it over. With fancy zones I can split my screen into three equi-sized windows. I use this for studying all the time!

[-] Thavron@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I'm a designer, so: copy text from image, color picker on anything, resize multiple images, paste without formatting in any program.

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