A look at the Releases page shows eight releases since early June, or about two per month. Speaking of updates, Rutkas and his programmers are working hard to push frequent updates to PowerToys.

Now, it simply asks for permission to restart the Windows Explorer (process name: explorer.exe) as it finishes up updating or installing itself. NET DLLs into PowerToys.īut as of release v0.20.1, PowerToys handles all open applications without issue. Via Twitter, one of team leader Clint Rutkas’ associates informed me this was because of the program’s inclusion of the Core. Versions 0.18.2 and earlier would require users to jump into Task Manager and terminate various processes and applications before its installation could complete. Over the past few months, PowerToys has really cleaned up its installation and update capabilities. (Make sure not to grab an experimental pre-release.) To get started, go to the PowerToys site on GitHub and download the latest release you’ll find it under “Releases” near the top right of the home page, or visit the Releases page directly. Until now, a per-user license for Power Automate Desktop would set you back at least $15 per month.Despite its preview status, however, the new PowerToys collection is well worth a look. Users who want to give Power Automate Desktop a try can now download it from Microsoft, but in the coming weeks, it’ll become part of Microsoft’s Insider Builds for Windows 10 and then eventually become a built-in part of Windows 10, all the way down to the standard Windows Home version. It’s based on Microsoft’s acquisition of Softomotive in early 2020, but Microsoft has since extended Softomotive’s technology and integrated it deeper into its own stack. Power Automate Desktop originally launched last September.

It comes with 370 prebuilt actions that help you build flows across different applications, but its real power is in letting you build your own scripts to automate repetitive and time-consuming tasks. Power Automate Desktop is what Microsoft calls its “attended Robotic Process Automation” solution, but you can think of it as a macro recorder on steroids.

Microsoft today announced that it is making Power Automate Desktop, its enterprise-level tool for creating automated desktop-centric workflows, available to all Windows 10 users for free.

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