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Community

The PowerToys team is extremely grateful to have the support of an amazing active community. The work you do is incredibly important. PowerToys wouldn’t be near what it is without your help filing bugs, updating documentation, guiding the design, or writing features. We want to say thanks and to recognize your work. This is a living document dedicated to highlighting the high impact community members and their contributions.

Names are in alphabetical order based on first name.

High impact community members

@Aaron-Junker - Aaron Junker

Aaron has helped triaging, discussing, and creating a substantial number of issues and contributed features/fixes. Aaron was the primary person for helping build the File Explorer preview pane handler for developer files.

@cgaarden - Christian Gaarden Gaardmark

Christian contributed New+ utility

@CleanCodeDeveloper

CleanCodeDeveloper helped do massive amounts of code stability and image resizer work.

@damienleroy - Damien Leroy

Damien has helped out by developing and contributing the Quick Accent utility.

@daverayment - David Rayment

Dave has helped improve the experience inside of Peek by adding in new features and fixing bugs.

@davidegiacometti - Davide Giacometti

Davide has helped fix multiple bugs, added new utilities, features, as well as help us with the ARM64 effort by porting applications to .NET Core.

@franky920920 - Franky Chen

Franky has helped triaging, discussing, and creating a substantial number of issues and contributed features/fixes to PowerToys.

@htcfreek - Heiko

Heiko has helped triaging, discussing, and creating a substantial number of issues and contributed features/fixes to PowerToys.

@Jay-o-Way - Jay

Jay has helped triaging, discussing, creating a substantial number of issues and PRs.

@jefflord - Jeff Lord

Jeff added in multiple new features into Keyboard manager, such as key chord support and launching apps. He also contributed multiple features/fixes to PowerToys.

@TheJoeFin - Joe Finney

Joe has helped triaging, discussing, issues as well as fixing bugs and building features for Text Extractor.

@jsoref - Josh Soref

Helping keep our spelling correct :)

@martinchrzan - Martin Chrzan

Color Picker is from Martin.

@mikeclayton - Michael Clayton

Michael contributed the initial version of the Mouse Jump tool and a number of updates based on his FancyMouse utility.

@PesBandi - PesBandi

PesBandi has helped do massive amounts of Quick Accent and bug fixes.

@riverar - Rafael Rivera

Rafael has helped do the upgrade from CppWinRT 1.x to 2.0. He directly provided feedback to the CppWinRT team for bugs from this migration as well.

@royvou

Roy has helped out contributing multiple features to PowerToys Run

@snickler - Jeremy Sinclair

Jeremy has helped drive large sums of the ARM64 support inside PowerToys

@TobiasSekan - Tobias Sekan

Tobias Sekan has helped out contributing features to PowerToys Run such as Settings plugin, Registry plugin

@ThiefZero

ThiefZero has helped out contributing a features to PowerToys Run such as the unit converter plugin

Open source projects

As PowerToys creates new utilities, some will be based off existing technology. We'll continue to do our best to contribute back to these projects but their efforts were the base of some of our projects. We want to be sure their work is directly recognized.

@jjw24 - Jeremy Wu

Their fork of Wox was the base of PowerToys Run.

WoX Launcher

Initial base of jjw24's fork, which makes it the base of PowerToys Run.

Text-Grab - Joseph Finney

Joe helped develop and contribute to the Text Extractor utility. It is directly based on his Text Grab application.

Microsoft community members

We would like to also directly call out some extremely helpful Microsoft employees that have directly contributed to PowerToys. This isn't their day job and was work they did out of passion. We want to say thank you and recognize your work.

@betsegaw - Betsegaw Tadele

Window Walker, inside PowerToys Run, is from Beta.

@TheMrJukes - Bret Anderson

The base of FancyZones and a lot of performance adjustments are from the hard work of Bret.

@bricelam - Brice Lambson

Image Resizer is from Brice.

@chrdavis - Chris Davis

PowerRename is from Chris's SmartRename and icon rendering for SVGs in File Explorer.

@dend - Den Delimarsky

PowerToys Awake is a tool to keep your computer awake.

@Niels9001 - Niels Laute

Niels has helped drive large sums of our update toward a new consistent and modern UX. This includes the launcher work, color picker UX update and icon design.

@randyrants - Randy Santossio

Randy contributed Registry Preview and some very early conversations about keyboard remapping.

@oldnewthing - Raymond Chen

Find My Mouse is based on Raymond Chen's SuperSonar.

@robmikh - Robert Mikhayelyan

Crop And Lock is based on the original work of Robert Mikhayelyan, with Program Manager support from @kevinguo305 - Kevin Guo.

Microsoft InVEST team

This amazing team helped PowerToys develop PowerToys Run and Keyboard manager as well as update our Settings to v2. @alekhyareddy28, @arjunbalgovind, @jyuwono @laviusmotileng-ms, @ryanbodrug-microsoft, @saahmedm, @somil55, @traies, @udit3333

Mouse Without Borders original contributors

Project creator: Truong Do (Đỗ Đức Trường)

Other contributors:

  • Microsoft Garage: Quinn Hawkins, Michael Low, Joe Coplen, Nino Yuniardi, Gwyneth Marshall, David Andrews, Karen Luecking
  • Peter Hauge - Visual Studio
  • Bruce Dawson - Windows Fundamentals
  • Alan Myrvold - Office Security
  • Adrian Garside - WEX
  • Scott Bradner - Surface
  • Aleks Gershaft - Windows Azure
  • Chinh Huynh - Windows Azure
  • Long Nguyen - Data Center
  • Triet Le - Cloud Engineering
  • Luke Schoen - Excel
  • Bao Nguyen - Bing
  • Ross Nichols - Windows
  • Ryan Baltazar - Windows
  • Ed Essey - The Garage
  • Mario Madden - The Garage
  • Karthick Mahalingam - ACE
  • Pooja Kamra - ACE
  • Justin White - SA
  • Chris Ransom - SA
  • Mike Ricks - Red Team
  • Randy Santossio - Surface
  • Ashish Sen Jaswal - Device Health
  • Zoltan Harmath - Security Tools
  • Luciano Krigun - Security Products
  • Jo Hemmerlein - Red Team
  • Chris Johnson - Surface Hub
  • Loren Ponten - Surface Hub
  • Paul Schmitt - WWL
  • And many other Users!

PowerToys core team

Former PowerToys core team members