PowerToys v0.59.1 releases: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity
PowerToys is a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity. Inspired by the Windows 95 era PowerToys project, this reboot provides power users with ways to squeeze more efficiency out of the Windows 10 shell and customize it for individual workflows.
PowerToy Utilities
FancyZones
FancyZones – FancyZones is a window manager that makes it easy to create complex window layouts and quickly position windows into those layouts. The FancyZones backlog can be found here
Shortcut
Windows key shortcut guide – The shortcut guide appears when a user holds the Windows key down for more than one second and shows the available shortcuts for the current state of the desktop. The shortcut guide backlog can be found here
PowerRename
PowerRename – PowerRename is a Windows Shell Extension for advanced bulk renaming using search and replaces or regular expressions. PowerRename allows simple search and replaces or more advanced regular expression matching. While you type in the search and replace input fields, the preview area will show what the items will be renamed to. PowerRename then calls into the Windows Explorer file operations engine to perform the rename. This has the benefit of allowing the rename operation to be undone after PowerRename exits.
Chris Davis contributed his SmartRename tool into PowerToys!
Additional utilities in the pipeline are
- Maximize to new desktop widget – The MTND widget shows a pop-up button when a user hovers over the maximize/restore button on any window. Clicking it creates a new desktop, sends the app to that desktop and maximizes the app on the new desktop.
- Process terminate tool
- Animated gif screen recorder
Backlog
The full backlog of utilities can be found here.
Changelog v0.59.1
This is a patch release to fix issues in v0.59.0 to fix a few bugs we deemed important for stability based on incoming rates. See v0.59.0 for full release notes.
- #18657: FancyZones not working with windows showing in all desktops is fixed.
- #18663: Messages showing there was an error updating should no longer appear when PowerToys is up-to-date.
- #18712: On some systems OOBE Windows renders a bit too big, so we made the window resizable.
- #18696: Added a setting to disable the search delay in PowerToys Run, as some users preferred the old behavior.
- #18679: A FancyZones bug where windows were not snapping after switching layouts is fixed.
- #18761: PowerToys Run is not getting the default web browser under some conditions. Potential fixes and added logs are included.
- #18842: Upgraded the Windows App SDK runtime to 1.1.1, containing the newest fixes.