20+ Windows features you didn’t know about

This might actually be the most tech tip video that Linus Tech has ever tipped.

Watching LTT actually give out tech tips made me feel like when you see music videos on MTV

I miss power user focused videos like this, glad to see one again for the first time in ages.

This was one of the most tech tip packed videos I've ever seen on this channel, it's absolutely one of my favorites

This is by far one of the best pieces of content LTT has ever produced. I was shocked to see this amount of tech tips in a single video.

I'm the dev that worked on the Keyboard Manager PowerToy back in 2020 when we first released it along with PowerToys Run, and I'm so happy that people are finding it useful! I'm always surprised by the creative uses of the shortcut/key remapping that I see online - from making complex shortcuts more simple to making certain applications more accessible.

Just a note on WSL: Don't turn on WSL if you are already using other VM software like VirtualBox. It slows those down A LOT and this has been an unresolved bug for a while. Also once you've turned it on, it doesn't help turning it back off to fix the issue.

As a Windows user for the past 35 years... this video made me nerdgasm, and brings so much joy. I think I might nerd out over the weekend and check some of these things out that I've long forgotten or never gotten around to using. Windows is so versatile and powerful, I think we forget that sometimes. Perhaps next we can have a video about Power Automate?

I liked when Linus said “It’s Tech Tippin Time” and tech tipped all over Windows. Truly one of the LTT moments of all time

Honestly, some of the best LTT content ever. Big thanks to the writing team!

This is your most useful video in years. Didn't know almost 50% of that stuff, and what I already knew you went deeper. Thank you!! I'll share with my team.

Awesome tips! Just one thin, when changing the keyboard shortcut of the Search Powertoy, just be wary that Win+Space is already used for switching keyboard languages in case anyone needs to know

We need more of these kinda videos PLEASE! I feel like a lot of your target audience is like me, not professionals but enthusiasts who stop just short of knowing a lot of these types of things. Well done 👍

It's been a long time since a video actually included tech tips, will definitively keep this one on my favorites.

Just a bit of a heads-up: if you are using multiple input languages on your computer, by default Win-Space is the keyboard shortcut to switch between input languages, and this will conflict with PowerToys Run if you set that as its keyboard shortcut. To get around this, you can change the keyboard shortcut to switch input languages by going to Settings > Time & language > Typing > Advanced keyboard settings, clicking on the "Input language hot keys" link, and then assigning a key sequence for the "Between input languages" action. Once that is done, you can then set PowerToys Run to use the Win-Space shortcut; check the "Use centralized keyboard hook" box if Win-Space keeps popping up the input language switcher.

I would love a series of tips like this expanded for windows and Linux

My favorite is probably the clipboard history. Use winkey+v to open a list of previously copied elements (text, images etc.) and choose the one to paste. Wouldn't that have been super useful in the multi text boxes cd-keys era?

As a graphic designer, the "Colour picker tool" from power toys has been a godsend. You can get the hex value by just highlighting anything on the screen, and it gives you similar colours based on what you selected

An alternative tip regarding the "alt space move window" tip I think it's better to use the "windows key + shift + left/right arrow key" to move the window to the other monitor.

As an IT Professional of over 8 years I'm happy to see LTT shine a spotlight on some of the lesser known pro tools available from Microsoft like SysInternals and the like. Extremely helpful and productive tools that make life a lot easier for those of us in the industry and it's nice to see normal users be be exposed to it and all the others as well.