In this article I’ll be featuring five daily quick tools that should make your day to day task a little less tedious and a lot more fun.
1.Power Toys :- Microsoft Power Toys is a open-source software designed and developed by Microsoft and hosted on GitHub.
What Power Toys can do :-
1(A). Window Tiling :- Tired of moving and dragging multiple windows on your screen ???? this tool comes to the rescue here in subsection of the app called FancyZones you can decide how much are and how many app can reside side by side on your screen.
i.e. here I am choosing a 3 X 3 grid.
Result I can conveniently open a text editor, document and folder in a equally sophisticated space.
1(B). Color Picker :- if you are a web designer and struggle with color codes and sometimes stumble upon some really cool shades and want to extract it .
this can come in handy.
here in a sea of colors I am extracting a specific color code by pressing win+shift+c.
1(C). Keyboard Manager :- for Remapping Keyboard
2.Display Fusion :- annoyed that your windows keep changing dimensions especially with a dual monitor setup with 2 different resolutions, or in dilemma with the customization functionality of Windows display properties check out DisplayFusion .
Display Fusion allows us to have :- Hotkeys, Separate Desktop environments and triggers coupled with monitor splitting and power of Remotely control Display Fusion from your phone or tablet. where you can change your wallpaper, toggle monitors and hundreds of other abilities.
2(A). Config window with an array of utilities.
3.UELI :- UELI is A keystroke launcher for Windows.
Love this spotlight search on Mac OS where you can Search files, apps and settings under a single umbrella. UELI is a same tool for windows which lets you search anything on the go.
install UELI and Press alt+ctrl
Just with the keywords it returns the indexed results.
4.AnyDesk :- enough with the snail like team-viewer . if in need of a light and speed Remote-Desktop software and don't want to compromise on features. check out AnyDesk.
Major Breakthroughs in this remote Access Software :-
- 60 frame per second transfer rate
- Small file size
- Secured connections protected with TLS1.2 encryption
5. WSL 2 :- Windows Subsystem Linux :- There are more than 3000 reasons to love Linux but still some hardware and inevitable limitations we stick to windows but Microsoft itself took care of this now we have a futuristic yet simple bridge called windows subsystem for linux.
WSL2 is a genuinely lightweight virtual machine based on Microsoft’s hardware virtualization service Hyper-V.
so if emulating linux is so easy why use VM’s then ???
fossbytes.com covered this as :-
Why Choose a Virtual Machine?
- You require all the power and features of Linux.
- For the Larger scale, Production level works.
- GUI (Graphical User interface)
- Graphical or Network-intensive workloads.
When to choose WSL/WSL2?
- For using basic Linux commands.
- You have less powerful hardware.
- You need memory/storage efficiency.
- When you need faster I/O.
- Don’t want to deal with the hassle of installation/management/overheads of a VM.
Coming back to base if you need a Django or Node Environment or a sleek terminal on your own windows.
install WSL and Fluent terminal so you can access alike environment I have below where I demonstrated some basic commands :-
THAT’S IT FOLKS …..THANKS FOR READING.