The PowerToys team is extremely grateful to have the support of an amazing active community. The work you do is incredibly important. PowerToys wouldn’t be near what it is without your help filing bugs, updating documentation, guiding the design, or writing features. We want to say thanks and to recognize your work. This is a living document dedicated to highlighting the high impact community members and their contributions.
Names are in alphabetical order based on first name.
Niels has helped drive large sums of our update toward a new consistent and modern UX. This includes the launcher work and icon design.
Rafael has helped do the upgrade from CppWinRT 1.x to 2.0. He directly provided feedback to the CppWinRT team for bugs from this migration as well.
Roy has helped out contributing a features to PowerToys Run
As PowerToys creates new utilities, some will be based off existing technology. We'll continue to do our best to contribute back to these projects but their efforts were the base of some of our projects. We want to be sure their work is directly recognized.
@jjw24 - Jeremy Wu
Their fork of Wox was the base of PowerToys Run.
Initial base of jjw24's fork, which makes it the base of PowerToys Run.
We would like to also directly call out some extremely helpful Microsoft employees that have directly contributed to PowerToys. This isn't their day job and was work they did out of passion. We want to say thank you and recognize your work.
Window Walker, inside PowerToys Run, is from Beta.
@TheMrJukes - Bret Anderson
The base of FancyZones and a lot of performance adjustments are from the hard work of Bret.
Image Resizer is from Brice.
@chrdavis - Chris Davis
PowerRename is from Chris's SmartRename and icon rendering for SVGs in File Explorer
@martinchrzan - Martin Chrzan
Color Picker is from Martin.