Windows 10: Microsoft’s PowerToys for Windows 10 gets a fresh update with new features

PowerToys, which is basically a collection of extremely handy tools for power users, is getting a big update on Windows 10. Microsoft PowerToys update includes a new interface for built-in image resizer, Color Picker, and a bunch of bug fixes.

PowerToys is an open-source tool and it’s been around since the days of Windows 95. In late 2018, Microsoft revisited PowerToys and created new utilities specifically for Windows 10.

Earlier this year, Microsoft added a new utility called “Image Resizer” to help you resize images and reduce their size in bulk. It comes with a very simple approach but it has been missing a user-friendly interface.

With today’s update, Microsoft is bringing Windows 10’s Fluent UI to the image resizer. It uses both Fluent Design and ModernWPF to mimic the WinUI look and feel, and the update also enables support for themes.



With the improved Image Resizer, you can now immediately resize the selected photos by choosing the pre-defined sizes – Small, Medium, Large, Phone and Custom. You can also customize the default sizes for the pre-defined modes.

Microsoft has even added rounded corners to the PowerToys and it’s also following the design approach of Windows 10X.

As we mentioned at the outset, Microsoft is also introducing a new and improved Color Picker with Fluent UI and WinUI-like rounded corners. For those unaware, Color Picker is a tool that allows you to scan any area of your desktop, apps or screenshots to detect and select colors.



After the new PowerToys update, the Color Picker uses drop shadows for better contrast and you can now also pick a different shade of color by clicking on the smaller rectangles.

Here’s the complete changelog:

• Dark mode improvements.
• New interface for Image Resizer and Color Picker.
• Now allows you to customize Windows for a better multi-monitor setup.

If you’re interested, you can download the latest update of PowerToys from Microsoft’s Github.

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New Microsoft PowerToys version 0.16.0 released for Windows 10

Source:

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

How to Download and Install Microsoft PowerToys in Windows 10

 

New Microsoft PowerToys version 0.14.0 released for Windows 10

UPDATE 12/5: New Microsoft PowerToys version 0.14.1 released for Windows 10


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.

 

New Microsoft PowerToys version 0.16.1 released for Windows 10

Source:

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

How to Download and Install Microsoft PowerToys in Windows 10