Keep awake indefinitely – keep the system awake till the time you turn off manually.

Keep using the selected power plan which will use your power settings.

PowerToys also allows you to exclude apps to pinning them on top. There are customization options available to change the border color of the top app to highlight. You can select multiple apps to keep them on top other open windows. You can trigger the action by pressing the assigned keyboard shortcut “Win + Control + T” and then selecting an app window. You can keep any app active always on top of other apps using this feature. In addition, you can go to “Welcome to PowerToys” section to view the summary of each app, tips, and the documentation link. If you are not using admin mode, the app will show a warning message in “General” section, and you can enable an option to always open the app in admin mode. The app needs to run in the background and in administrator mode for the features to work.

Get the executable file GitHub and manually install.

Find Microsoft PowerToys app from Microsoft Store and install.

You can use one of the following methods to install PowerToys in your computer.

You can check the history of PowerToys in this Wikipedia article and below are the tools available with the latest version in Windows 11. Microsoft PowerToys was first released for Windows 95 and the latest version needs Windows 10 or 11. It contains more than ten tools, and you can enable or disable the required tool using an interface like Windows Settings app. PowerToys is a free and official application from Microsoft to customize Windows right from the front end.

It is Microsoft PowerToys, and we will go through all the features available with this power tool in this article. However, there is an official tool from Microsoft is available for tweaking Windows that many users do not aware. You can also tweak Windows using Registry Editor and customize the default settings.

Though old Control Panel app still exists in Windows 11, most of the features are combined with the Settings app. Windows comes with default set of features that you can customize using Windows Settings app.

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