Security News > 2021 > August > Customize your Windows 10 experience with these free tools
Windows 10 comes with built-in personalization settings to help you customize the desktop and it provides plenty of options by default.
Unlike Windows Search, Fluent Search offers accurate results and it lets you jump easily between running apps and browser tabs.
Unlike Windows Search, search tags can filter search results easily.
Modern Flyout is an open-source project that will replace Windows 10 or Windows 11's audio, aeroplane, and brightness flyouts with a customizable flyout with a modern UI. The native flyout is not permanently closed but will be hidden when you've this third-party tool installed.
Windows 10 PowerToys suite is developed by Microsoft and it will allow you to extend File Explorer's capabilities, optimize app windows for big monitors, resize images, and more.
Windows Terminal can have a tab with a PowerShell console, another with the Windows 10 command prompt, and another with a WSL Ubuntu shell.
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