As Microsoft often does, the company has pushed out a small update to PowerToys. v0.84.1 brings with it some important fixes to the Workspaces tool.
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The 0.76 release brings new File Explorer Add-ons in Preview Handler and Thumbnail Provider, it modernizes PowerToys Run, Quick Accent and Text Extractor UIs Windows 11-like theme, and fixes.
A new version is released with Windows App SDK 1.4.1, increasing stability of WinUI3 utilities. FancyZones, and Text Extractor get updates, and silent crashes reported by Watson are fixed.
A new version is released with a new utility called Crop and Lock. This enables a user to select an app and reduce its size all the way to a thumbnail, FancyZones, PowerRename and more got updates.
A new version is here, and even though there are no new Toys, this release reduces the install size by around 250mb, there's an option to always follow the mouse pointer with a highlight, and more.
A new PowerToys version is here, and even though there are no new Toys to write about, this release does contain a good number of improvements and fixes, including modernized settings with Mica.
Microsoft fixed bugs with Mouse Without Borders, and Peek that have been discovered since they debuted a week ago, as well as leaks and/or infinite cycles in C# utilities that use events, and more.
v0.69 was released last week, since then, bugs that were deemed important enough to fix have been identified and fixed, such as issues with Registry Preview, Awake. and more. Changelog inside.
This month's release features a fix for PowerToys Run crashes, Quality of life improvements to Awake, and the new Registry Preview utility. PowerToys also now supports per user installation
Microsoft has released a new PowerToys update. It contains a decent list of and improvements and adds two new utilities: Paste as Plain Text and Mouse Jump. There's also a bunch of fixes.
Microsoft has reverted saving settings to the registry back to the HKLM scope after a bug was discovered with context menus not working in some configs, plus FancyZones fixes, and more.
Microsoft has released a new PowerToys update. It contains a decent list of and improvements and adds the Quick access system tray launcher. The PowerToys registry was also moved to user scope.
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For those that have big screens and are working on Windows, Microsoft's upcoming PowerToys feature, FancyMouse, also called Mouse Jump, could come in extremely handy. The dev has shared how it works.
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Microsoft has released a new PowerToys update. Version 0.66.0 is now available to all users with a decent list of various fixes and improvements (no new tools this time, unfortunately).
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v0.62 was released last week, but since then, bugs that were deemed important enough to fix have been identified and fixed, such as Quick Accent causing Keyboard Manager to not work, and more.
The latest feature update for Microsoft PowerToys is now available. Version 0.63 brings a new setting in QuickAccent to select a language and a reduced install size. Bug fixes are a cherry on top.
Microsoft is working on a new utility called File Locksmith for PowerToys. It will help Windows 10 and 11 users figure out what processes prevent them from deleting or renaming a file or folder.
v0.62 was released last week, but since then, bugs that were deemed important enough to fix have been identified and fixed, such as Quick Accent causing Keyboard Manager to not work, and more.
The latest feature update for Microsoft PowerToys is now available. Version 0.62 brings three brand-new tools: Screen Ruler, Quick Accent, and Text Extractor. Bug fixes are a cherry on top.
Here is another new tool coming soon to PowerToys. PowerOCR will allow users to grab text from any image, screen region, or file and then paste it into any other application for further editing.
Microsoft PowerToys is about to get a brand-new tool called "Screen Ruler." It will let users quickly measure pixels between different objects on the screen using various measuring modes.
Microsoft released v0.61.0 only yesterday, but since then, a couple of bugs that were deemed important enough to fix are included in this patch, fixing the missing Start menu entries and more.
Microsoft has today released PowerToys 0.61 for all users on Windows 10 and 11. The Redmond based company says that this latest version focuses on building on more quality of life improvements.
Microsoft released PowerToys 0.60.0 last week, but since then, a few bugs cropped up that were deemed important enough to roll out a bug fix patch for. This fixes some issues with FancyZones and more.
Microsoft has today released PowerToys 0.60 for all users on Windows 10 and 11. The Redmond based company says that this latest version focuses on building on more stability and improvements.
Microsoft released 0.59.0 last week, but since then a few bugs cropped up that were deemed important enough to roll out a bug fix patch for, this fixes some issues with FancyZones and more.
Microsoft today released PowerToys 0.59 for all users. The latest version adds notable improvements for Keyboard Manager, WinUI 3 for Power Rename, and enhancements for ARM64.
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The newest release of Microsoft PowerToys also brings control to rounded corners in Windows 11 in the FancyZones PowerToy as well as a bunch of bug fixes for other toys and spelling corrections.
This patch release fixes a few major issues that cause a 100% CPU spike with the PowerToys Run toy, and also fixes some issues with the Always on Top losing its status, defeating its purpose, & more.
It has been almost a month since Microsoft released a major version of PowerToys, and this time around the release includes no new features, instead there are stability fixes and improvements.
Microsoft has released a patch for last weeks PowerToys 0.56.1 which fixes a FancyZones Template layout reset bug. A few other bugs relating to Find my mouse and Run were also fixed.
.NET Framework dependency has now been removed, paving the way for a fully ARM64 native experience. Also added to this release, Child and Popup window support for FancyZones, and more.
Just over a week ago, Microsoft released the 0.55.1 patch to fix issues that came up with 0.55.0, but now Microsoft has had to release 0.55.2 to address an installer bug with .NET 5 runtime installer.
PowerToys 0.55.0 was released just two days ago, however a few bugs were discovered, one of which made it not possible to run PowerToys as an Administrator, as well as Mouse crosshair bugs.
Three new PowerToys utilities have been introduced in today's release. Crosshair over pointer, Developer files for preview pane, and STL file format thumbnail and preview pane generation.
PowerToys 0.53.1 was released just under a week ago, however a few bugs were discovered, one of which caused the program to crash when running PowerToys Run, thanks to a duplicate naming.
In its first release of the year Microsoft has added tools and continued efforts to improve on the installer. This release includes over 100 fixes and there's a new Always on Top keyboard shortcut.
