The PowerToys Toybox — All 30 Microsoft PowerToys Ranked, Every Shortcut, and the $254 Receipt

The companion to the video. Microsoft PowerToys is one free, open-source app with 30+ utilities inside — 137K GitHub stars — and Windows doesn't ship with it, so almost nobody has it. THIS SHEET: (1) THE TOP 10, RANKED — FancyZones, Command Palette, Text Extractor, Mouse Without Borders, ZoomIt, Advanced Paste, Workspaces, PowerRename, Crop And Lock, Always On Top — what each does, its exact shortcut, and the paid app it replaces. (2) THE REST OF THE BOX — all 20 remaining utilities incl. the 2025-26 newcomers (Light Switch, Grab And Move, Power Display, the app-aware Shortcut Guide). (3) THE RECEIPT — $254.89 of real vendor-priced paid software replaced free, with an honesty corner on where free rivals exist too. (4) DAY-ONE SETUP — the one-command winget install, the admin-window quirk fix, and the 5 moves that make it stick. (5) SHORTCUT CRIB SHEET — every hotkey on one table. Every utility and shortcut verified against Microsoft's official docs on July 30, 2026. Independent ranking from Hyperautomation Labs — not affiliated with Microsoft.

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