Windows 10: Microsoft to supercharge Windows 10 PowerToys with new plugin manager

Microsoft PowerToys – a collection of useful tools and utilities for Windows 10 – is getting another big update soon. According to the roadmap, Microsoft is working on a new plugin manager for PowerToys Run, which is an app launcher and replacement for Windows Search.

Microsoft has been working on PowerToys Run search experience for a while now and it’s set to get better in the next release with support for built-in plugin manager. For those unaware, PowerToys Run is a feature included with PowerToys and it aims to replace the Win+R shortcut for power users.

PowerToys Run brings with it a Spotlight-like lightweight search experience that is found on Mac and it also comes with support for ‘plugins’ to enable support for additional features in the search screen.


PowerToys Run search screen

Microsoft is now working on a new plugin manager that you can use to quickly enhance the capabilities of the search experience.

In another update, which is currently available for download, Microsoft finally added support for additional plugins. One of the new plugins is ‘Registry plugin’, which lets you instantly search for main registry keys, as shown in the screenshot below.



Likewise, Microsoft is also introducing a plugin called ‘Services’.



This plugin allows you to search, start, stop and restart Windows services directly from the PowerToys Run search screen.

How to test the new PowerToys Run plugins


To test the new PowerToys Run and its plugins, simply head to the Github release page and download the installer.


Image Courtesy: GitHub

Once done, follow the on-screen instructions and you’ll be able to access the new search experience with Alt + Space keyboard shortcut.

Other improvements coming to PowerToys


According to the roadmap, there are a bunch of other improvements coming to Windows 10 PowerToys. For example, PowerToys is said to be getting a new tool that will allow you to paste text without formatting.

Similarly, another upcoming tool will allow you to record the screen and create a GIF or video.

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Source:

• Release Release v0.18.0 . microsoft/PowerToys . GitHub
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How to install

For new and existing users, head to Releases . microsoft/PowerToys . GitHub and download the PowerToysSetup.msi installer.

How to Download and Install Microsoft PowerToys in Windows 10




What’s new inside 0.14.0

FancyZones

Changes:

• Removed legacy editor (along with the settings option to choose between the legacy editor and the new editor).
• Added a settings to disable FanzyZones for user defined list of applications.
• The editor now opens highlighting the current active layout.
• Show the correct keyboard key for the editor shortcut (with some limitations due to the WebView control).

Bug fixes:

• Fixed the FancyZones bug that was stealing the number keys (mostly happening when dragging Chrome tabs).
• Fixed a DPI scaling bug in the FancyZones editor that was causing the zones to be placed in the wrong position on the screen.
• Fixed bug preventing several apps from working with FancyZones (there are still some cases, like remote apps, that may not work).

PowerRename

Changes:

• The dialog can be resized (still need to finished the work to handle DPI changes when moving the dialog between screen with different scaling %).
• Added settings to restore search and replace flags value from previous run.
• Added settings to enable autocomplete and auto-suggest.

Bug fixes:

• Improved RegEx replace result.
• Fix bug preventing sub-folder items to be renamed if parent folder is also renamed.

Other bug fixes

• fixed a bug in the runner that was causing the tray icon to not appear.
• minor UI tweaks to the Settings appearance (icons position and margins, module's description text and documentation links position and margins).
• fixed a crash in the SortcutGuide.

NOTE: When upgrading from a previous version, the installer will close all the Windows Explorer windows in order to update the PowerRename shell extension.

 

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Source:

• Releases . microsoft/PowerToys . GitHub
• GitHub - microsoft/PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity

How to Download and Install Microsoft PowerToys in Windows 10