Microsoft has released a maintenance update for the stable version of the PowerToys suite. While previously the company has announced the conference muting tool coming to the stable PowerToys, this release doesn't include it. It only comes with bugfixes and general improvements.
PowerToys is a set of tiny handy utilities which were first introduced in Windows 95. Probably, most users will recollect TweakUI and QuickRes, which were really useful. The last version of the classic PowerToys suite was released for Windows XP. In 2019, Microsoft announced that they are reviving PowerToys for Windows and making them open source. Windows 10 PowerToys obviously are completely new and different, tailored for the new operating system.
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What's new in PowerShell 0.23
General
- Localization pipeline is flowing from our Github to the loc system and back. 0.25 should be localized now.
- The EXE installer should be at parity now with the MSI. Please go to the wiki for (installer args)[https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/wiki/Installer-arguments-for-exe]
FancyZones
- Fixed bug on not seeing a newly attached screen
- Fixed spanning across monitors bug
- Added in default layout for new users, a Priority Grid
- Added keyboard support to grow / shrink to multiple zones
- General bug fixes
PT Run
- Multiple crash bugs fixed. Prioritized any users reported along with top hits from Watson reporting
- Stopped PT Run from interfering with an install
- Fixed folder bug if it had a # in it (Thanks @jjw24 for the PR!)
- Fixed a screen flicker for
- General bug fixes
Keyboard manager
- Multiple crash bugs fixed. Prioritized any users reported along with top hits from Watson reporting
- Fixed multiple accessibility issues.
- General bug fixes
Preview Pane
- Added in Frontmatter and better (but still basic) latex support.
Settings
- Fixed scaling issue for responsive design on Image Resizer
- Fixed crash on empty color value.
- Fixed crash for toggling FancyZones on/off
- Fixed 0x00 NFTS crash for settings
- Fixed multiple accessibility issues.
- Layout adjustments (Thanks @niels9001)
- General bug fixes
So, Where is the Video Conference utility?
This will be coming in about a week's time. Microsoft needs additional work done here to ship this out. It will be 0.24 Experimental and will be 0.23 + The video conference utility.
Download PowerToys
You can download the app from its Releases page on GitHub:
PowerToys apps
As of now, Windows 10 PowerToys include the following apps.
- Video Conference Mute tool - an experimental tool that allows muting both audio and video on your computer with a single keystroke or click.
- ColorPicker - a simple and quick system-wide color picker that allows you to get the color value at any point of what you see on the screen.
- PowerRename - a tool that is intended to help you rename a large number of files using various naming conditions like search and replace a portion of the file name, define regular expressions, change letter case, and more. PowerRename is implemented as a shell extension for File Explorer (read plugin). It opens a dialog box with a bunch of options.
- FancyZones - FancyZones is a window manager that is designed to make it easy to arrange and snap windows into efficient layouts for your workflow, and also to restore these layouts quickly. FancyZones allows the user to define a set of window locations for a desktop that are drag targets for windows. When the user drags a window into a zone, the window is resized and repositioned to fill that zone.
- Windows key shortcut guide - The Windows key shortcut guide is a full screen overlay utility that provides a dynamic set of Windows key shortcuts that are applicable for the given desktop and currently active window. When the Windows key is held down for one second, (this time can be tuned in settings), an overlay appears on the desktop showing all available Windows key shortcuts and what action those shortcuts will take given the current state of the desktop and active window. If the Windows key continues to be held down after a shortcut is issued, the overlay will remain up and show the new state of the active window.
- Image Resizer, a Windows Shell Extension for quickly resizing images.
- File Explorer - a set of addons for File Explorer. Currently includes two Preview Pane additions to show contents of *.MD and *.SVG files.
- Window Walker is an app that lets you search and switch between windows that you have open, all from the comfort of your keyboard.
- PowerToys Run, provides a new Run command with extra options like quick search for apps, files, and docs. It supports extensions to get features like a calculator, dictionaries, nd online search engines.
- Keyboard Manager is a tool that allows remapping any key to a different function. It can be configured in the main PowerToys dialog.
It allows you to remap a single key, or a key sequence (shortcut).
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