Windows 10: New Microsoft PowerToys version 0.33.1 released for Windows 10

Our goals for v0.33 release cycle was to add in some critical new functionality into the new user experience as well as a plug-in manager for PowerToys Run.

Where is the Video Conference utility?

We'll be doing a 0.34 experimental release week of March 8th. We feel we are near ready to add in Video Conference mute into the stable release pending feedback from the pending 0.34 experimental release.

Installer hash

33D9A55E5D133EC521669FA05473A3B3F04F06B786016A36E92ADC83002502E1

Highlights from v0.33 Stable/0.34 Experimental

General

• Updated overview links to be language agnostic to the docs site.
• 'First time load' experience. The hope is a quick, light way to learn about basic functionality. We have some more work to do and want to also use the same framework for teaching about updates as well.
• Localization corrections

FancyZones

• Adjusted editor UX based on feedback. Thanks @niels9001!
• New options to change zone activation algorithm.

File Explorer

• Improved how SVG images are previewed in the preview pane, thanks@Drakula44!
• @Aaron-Junker has created a proof of concept for using Monaco editor for previewing dev files. This will enable over 125+ file types.

PowerToys Run

• Plugin Manager now is in settings. You can directly turn on / off, include items in general search, and change the action key! Thanks @htcfreek for the great feedback!
• Improved support for additional window managers by abstracting out shell process calls. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Fix for PT Run registering the hotkey on non-supported OS versions.
• ~ will now act as the user home directory in Folder plugin. Thanks @davidegiacometti
• Service plugin has adjusted status messages

Video Conference Mute (Experimental)

• Adjust video muting to leverage DirectShow.
• Goal is to have 0.34 experimental release week of March 8th.

Settings

• When restarting as admin, the settings now will reopen. Thanks @davidegiacometti!

ARM64 Progress

• Investigation on how we'll accomplish Settings with the XAML Island and WPF app.

Source: Release Release v0.33.1 . microsoft/PowerToys . GitHub

How to Download and Install Microsoft PowerToys in Windows 10

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New Microsoft PowerToys version 0.31.2 released for Windows 10

This is patch release to a regression bug in 0.31.1 we deemed important for stability based on user feedback. See v0.31.1 for full release notes.

• #9453 - FanzyZones app history and zone settings granular saving

Read more: Release Release v0.31.2 . microsoft/PowerToys . GitHub


How to Download and Install Microsoft PowerToys in Windows 10

 

New Microsoft PowerToys version 0.14.0 released for Windows 10

Update: New Microsoft PowerToys version 0.14.1 released for 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.