Windows 10 update adds useful features for power users — what you need to know

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Microsoft released a new Windows 10 update that brings useful new features to PowerToys, the set of gratuitous tools made simply for power users. Forth with patching security bugs, the update adds an enhanced Image Resizer characteristic that should save users tons of time.

For those who aren't familiar, PowerToys has been around since Windows 95 and gives PC power users features they need to maximize their productivity. It isn't for everyone simply this collection of tools is certainly worth checking out if you want to go the almost out of your laptop or desktop.

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New to PowerToys is a refreshed interface for the Epitome Resizer feature, which was launched final year. The Image Resizer makes it piece of cake for users to resize and compress images in bulk, saving them fourth dimension when they need to edit photos for the spider web. You tin now swiftly resize photos by selecting preset sizes (pocket-sized, medium, large, phone and custom) or customize the default size for those presets.

With the update, Microsoft brings its Fluent design language to the paradigm resizer, and so it will look more like the modern Windows 10 UI. Fluent is coming to PowerToys in general so more tools volition have rounded corners, transparent backgrounds, and an improved Dark Mode.

Final but not least, the Colour Picker feature gets new features, including drib shadows for amend dissimilarity and y'all can move between different shades of colors past clicking on minor rectangles.

The latest PowerToys update is available at present on Microsoft'due south GitHub page.

Phillip Tracy is the assistant managing editor at Laptop Mag where he reviews laptops, phones and other gadgets while covering the latest industry news. After graduating with a journalism caste from the University of Texas at Austin, Phillip became a tech reporter at the Daily Dot. There, he wrote reviews for a range of gadgets and covered everything from social media trends to cybersecurity. Prior to that, he wrote for RCR Wireless News covering 5G and IoT. When he'southward not tinkering with devices, you can find Phillip playing video games, reading, traveling or watching soccer.