Microsoft released the latest version of PowerToys, its toolkit for power users on Windows 10 and 11, bringing it down to version 0.60. This release focuses mostly on minor improvements and fixes, but there are some changes worth noting, especially if you’re using Windows 11.
For starters, the Image Resizer and PowerRename tool have been added to the Windows 11 context menu. So far, if you want to use any of these tools on your files, you’ll need to right-click to bring up the Windows 11 context menu, then choose Show more options To see the old list, where these features will appear. This change reduces the number of steps you need to take to rename your files or resize images. The team notes that this may not work well if you are a Windows Insider in the Dev channel.
Another improvement related to Windows 11 is the Always on Top tool. This tool pins any window on top of all your other windows, and highlights the pinned windows with a colored border. Now, these borders will have rounded corners in Windows 11, following the rounded corners of the window itself.
Other than that, there are a few general improvements, like the new PowerToys Run plugin for OneNote. In addition, FancyZones now uses a new region selection technology that increases stability and prevents your regions from resetting when using multiple monitors. This update also makes it easier to install ARM64 versions of PowerToys through the Microsoft Store and Windows Package Manager.
There are a lot of small improvements and fixes in PowerToys 0.60, and you can find them all below.
Improvements in PowerToys 0.60
general
- Upgrade Windows App SDK Runtimes to 1.1.1. (This was a hotfix for 0.59)
always on top
- Added support for more diverse keyboard shortcuts with a reference to low-level keyboard hooks. Thanks Tweet embed!
- Additional rounded corners features have been added for rounded corner windows in Windows 11.
Fancy Zones
- Fixed a bug where windows displayed on all desktops were not working with FancyZones. (This was a hotfix for 0.59)
- When changing area layouts, windows will match the new size/position if the option is turned on. (This was a hotfix for 0.59)
- Simple UI overhaul in FancyZones Editor. Thanks Tweet embed!
- Fixed artboard layout display in FancyZones editor and unscaled screen resolutions are now displayed.
- Fixed a transparency issue in some windows causing the window to be blank.
Image Resizer
- The entry for Image Resizer now appears in the new Windows 11 context menu.
File Explorer Add-ons
- Add the viewBox attribute to the svg thumbnails so that it tries to show the whole image, similar to what was done in the preview handler.
- Removed remote image access in tag preview tests.
- Fixed instability in markdown test suite with appropriate component initialization timeouts.
- WebView2 resource leak caused by svg thumbnails has been fixed.
keyboard manager
- The editor title bar now appears in the immersive dark mode theme. Thanks Tweet embed!
mouse utility
- The default activation shortcut for Mouse Pointer Crosshairs has been changed so that it does not conflict with a special character set on some international keyboards.
PowerRename
- The file enumeration logic has been fixed to change enumerations only at the end of a file name.
- Clicking regex / date and time cheat sheet appends this item to the specified search or replaces the text field.
- The PowerRename entry now appears in the new Windows 11 context menu.
- The title bar now appears in the immersive dark mode theme. Thanks Tweet embed!
Play PowerToys
- Added setting to disable and configure input delay in search queries. (This was a hotfix for 0.59)
- Fixed and added records for default web browser detection. (This was a hotfix for 0.59)
- The plug-in can now search .lnk shortcuts by executable name. Thanks Tweet embed!
- A new plug-in has been added for OneNote. Thanks Tweet embed!
- Query caching and delayed execution have been added to the OneNote plug-in. Thanks Tweet embed!
- Quality of life fixes for the TimeZone plug-in, including fixes for empty translations, missing time zones, and results not found in the expected time. Thanks Tweet embed!
- Calls to the old WebRequest API have been removed. Thanks Tweet embed!
- Added common names for sharing settings in settings plug-ins. Thanks Tweet embed!
- Calculator Mages engine updated to 2.0.1, for higher accuracy. Thanks for testing and paying for changes Tweet embed!
- Translation fixes for Calculator and TimeDate plug-ins. Thanks Tweet embed!
- An entry for “Search Settings” has been added to the Settings plug-in. Thanks Tweet embed!
- Deprecated BinaryFormatter uses, which contain vulnerabilities, have been removed. Thanks Tweet embed!
- Settings have been added to better control the order of query results. Thanks Tweet embed!
- The Terminal plugin now uses a better API to detect installed Terminal packages. Thanks Tweet embed!
Settings
- Fixed a bug that the update failed, even if PowerToys was fully updated. (This was a hotfix for 0.59)
- The OOBE window is resizable. (This was a hotfix for 0.59)
- OOBE can now show release notes through authenticated proxies.
- OOBE now hides the x64 and ARM64 installer hashes on the What’s New page.
- Minor UI fix in keyboard manager page. Thanks Tweet embed!
- Fix in internal data type of CheckBox controls. Thanks hahahahahaha!
- The title bar now appears in the immersive dark mode theme. Thanks Tweet embed!
- A crash in accessing the System.Management API load has been fixed on ARM64 versions of Windows.
installer
- Fixed dll signature for setup custom actions in the new pipeline.
- Updated Visual C++ Redistributable to 14.32.31332 and fixed installer error when installing a newer version. Thanks Tweet embed!
- .NET dependency updated to 6.0.6.
development
- Cleaning the warning funnel CA1031. Thanks Tweet embed!
- Support for ARM64 binaries has been added to the Microsoft Store Submit task. Thanks Tweet embed!
- An icon has been added to a tool to help identify screen IDs.
- Support for ARM64 binaries has been added to the suite package creation task.
- The pull request template has been updated to better reflect project changes.
- Component governance checks have been reactivated in the new master branch.
- The CI failed to run tests calling the newer WebView 2 version, so it was disabled until a fix was found.
- Updated Tests SDK to 17.2.0.
- The versions of the Nuget package used in the solution are integrated.
- The CodeQL CI task was disabled in the repo, but it was causing problems in the branches, so it was removed.
- A specific version of Newtonsoft.Json was identified in tests to avoid a vulnerability in previous versions.
- FabricBot configurations have been added to the repository.
- Added child configuration to update GitHub Actions dependencies. Thanks Tweet embed!
- Updated spelling procedure and quality of life fixes added to workflow. Thanks Tweet embed!
Could you Power Toys 0.60 from GithubOr, if you already have the app installed, check for in-app updates for the latest version.
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