Power Toys 0.79.0

Microsoft has released version 0.79.0 of PowerToys. The PowerToys are a collection of small programs for power users. There were PowerToys for Windows 95 and Windows XP, and since mid-2019 Microsoft has also been developing a version for Windows 10 and higher. The PowerToys include Awake, Color Picker, FancyZones, File Explorer Add-ons, Image Resizer, Keyboard Manager, PowerRename, PowerToys Run, Shortcut Guide and the Video Conference Mute. The changelog for this release shows the following changes and improvements:

Highlights

• New feature: Keyboard Manager allows mapping shortcuts to start applications or opening URIs.
• New feature: Keyboard Manager allows shortcuts with chords.< /li>
• Modernized Color Picker with Fluent UX.
• Peek now is able to preview drives.
• File Locksmith now has an entry in the Windows 11 tier 1 context menu.

General

• Refactored code so that English is used as a fallback language when a localized resource cannot be found.

Awake

• The setting now reverts to “Keep using the current power plan” after Awake deactivates itself after any of the timed modes has expired.

Color Picker

• Now uses WPFUI and the UI was updated to follow Fluent UX principles.
• Added enable and disable telemetry to align it with the other utilities.

Command Not Found

• Added telemetry for when a module instance is created in PowerShell.

FancyZones

• Fixed a memory leak occurring on work area changes.

File Explorer add-ons

• Added support to the .ksh, .zsh, .bsh and .env file types to Monaco previewer.
• Re- enabled the RendererAppContainer feature in WebView2, since the associated crash has been fixed in the latest WebView2 releases.

File Locksmith

• Added as an entry in the Windows 11 tier 1 context menu.

Hosts File Editor

• Tweaked filter button style to indicate if filters are applied.
• Added an error indicator to each input field to indicate why a new entry can't be created.
• Added an in-line delete button for each entry.

Image Resizer

• Units and resize modes are now localized.
• Tweaked and improved UI.

Keyboard Manager< /strong>

• Added a feature that allows remapping a shortcut to starting an application.
• Added a feature that allows remapping a shortcut to open a URI.
• Added chords to shortcuts.

< li>Send telemetry about the key/shortcut to key/shortcut remappings that are set. This doesn't include remap to text, application or URI since those might contain personal information.

• Added telemetry to send a daily event that at least a key/shortcut to key/shortcut remapping was used.

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• Tweaked and fixed the chords code to better follow conventions when trying to call the same chord multiple times.

Mouse Without Borders

• Fixed an issue causing the target path string to be corrupted when registering as a service.

Paste as Plain Text

• Prevent the start menu from activating when the Windows key is part of the activation shortcut and is released sooner.

Peek

• Fixed a title bar issue after maximizing Peek's window.
• Fixed a crash when trying to use Peek in File Explorer alternatives.
• Added a previewer for drives.
• The folder previewer will now asynchronously calculate size, similar to the Properties screen in File Explorer.
• Added support to the .ksh, .zsh, .bsh and .env file types to Monaco previewer.

PowerRename

• PowerRename context menu accelerator key readded.
• Tweaked PowerRename apply button style.

PowerToys Run

• Fixed an issue causing win32 application icons to not appear correctly in the Programs plugin.
• Unified phrasing in the plugin descriptions.

< li>Fixed an issue causing the PowerToys Run plugin settings to be cleared with each upgrade.

• Fixed an issue causing VSCodeWorkspaces plugin to not find WSL workspaces.
• Fixed results tooltip closing fast.
• Improved the Registry plugin tooltip spacing.
• Allow pressing '=' to replace the query with the current result when using the calculator plugin.
• Optimized the code that gathers results from the plugin to reduce CPU consumption.
• Optimized memory usage in the Window Walker plugin.
• Fixed crashes and improved error handling when saving json configuration files.
• The Program plugin will now correctly get the icon for a newly installed packaged application.

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Quick Accent

• Added support for the Slovenian character set.

Registry Preview

• Fixed a crash when closing the application and the editor's right click menu is opened.

Settings

• Fixed an alignment issue in the flyout icons causing some icons to be centered when they shouldn't.
• Added the mention that Monaco supports .txt files.
• Fixed an issue causing the Settings window to lose its previous maximized state.

Documentation

• Fixed broken links in doc/devdocs/readme.md.

Development

• Updated Microsoft.MSBuildCache to 0.1.258-preview.
• Fixed CI to point VCToolsVersion to VC.CRT instead of VC.Redist version.
• Updated MSTest adapter and framework to 3.2.
• Fixed CI by pointing WiX 3.14 urls and hashes to the latest release on GitHub.
• Added Pro and Enterprise editions of Visual Studio to the repository's development configuration DSC scripts.
• Updated CppWinRT to 2.0.240111.5.
• Updated System.Drawing.Common to 8.0.2 to fix CI builds after the .NET 8.0.2 upgrade was released.
• Updated WPFUI version to 3.0.0.
• XAML Styler is now fully tested in the solution when CI runs.
• Fixed a faulty XAML binding in the Text Extractor settings page.
• Updated Microsoft.Web.WebView2 to 1.0.2365.46.