MS Power Toys

[Jules Marchildon]

Thought I'd post this as an FYI.
 
I was investigating the magnification win32 API examples and eventually came across this link Magnification API Overview   The first thing that jumped out was this note; "The Magnification API is not supported under WOW64; that is, a 32-bit magnifier application will not run correctly on 64-bit Windows."  So started searching for alternatives. I did some more searching and came across Gary's thread Win10 Magnifier Alternative -July 2022  while I have played with Patrice's FFcapture in the past,  post #3 by Hutch mentioned a 32bit MS Utility "zoomin.exe" but no source code go fish for yourself.  So I went deep C fishing, I got to this site ZoomIt -Sysinternals  and they have both 32 & 64bit binaries, the github link took me to the source code and I was surprised by all the other utilities available as well,  here it is   Microsoft PowerToys  I'm still reading through it all to find the zoomin source code.

[Stuart McLachlan]

 I was surprised by all the other utilities available as well,  here it is   Microsoft PowerToys  I'm still reading through it all to find the zoomin source code.

If you just want to install PowerToys, then a better link with more info and an Install instructions link (Both Github and MS Store), may be:  https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/

Note: PowerToys in one flavour or another has been around since Win95.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PowerToys
(TweakUI was especailly useful back in the day  )

[Jules Marchildon]

Thanks for the other convenience link Stuart,  I remember using TweakUI back in the day.  Have you been using any of the power toys utilities, which are your favorite's and why?