Power Toys 0.80.0

Microsoft has released version 0.80.0 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: Desired State Configuration support, allowing the use of winget configure for PowerToys . Check the DSC documentation for more information.
• The Windows App SDK dependency was updated to 1.5.1, fixing many underlying UI issues.
• WebP/WebM files support was added to Peek.
• Audio files support was added to Peek.
• Automated UI testing for FancyZones Editor was added to CI.

General

• Added a Quick Access entry to access the flyout from PowerToys' tray icon right click menu.
• Added support for Desired State Configuration in PowerToys, allowing the use of winget configure to configure many settings.

Awake

• Fix an issue causing the “Keep screen on” option to disable after Awake deactivated itself.

Color Picker

• Fixed a UI issue causing the color picker modal to hide part of the color bar.

Command Not Found

• Now tries to find a preview version of PowerShell if no stable version is found.

FancyZones

• Fixed a crash loading the editor when there's a layout with an empty name in the configuration file.
• Refactored layout internal data structures and common code to allow for automated testing.
• The pressing of the shift key is now detected through raw input to fix an issue causing the shift key to be locked for some users.

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File Explorer add-ons

• Fixed a crash occurring in the Monaco previewer when a file being previewed isn't found by the code behind.
• Fixed an issue in the Markdown previewer adding a leading space to code blocks.
• Fixed wrong location and scaling of preview results on screens with different DPIs.
• Added better clean up code to thumbnail handlers to prevent locking files.

File Locksmith

• Allow multiple lines to wrap when viewing the modal with selected file paths.

Installer

• Fixed the final directory name of the PowerToys Run VSCode Workspaces plugin in the installation directory to match the plugin name.
• Used more generic names for the bootstrap steps, so that “Installing PowerToys” is not shown when uninstalling.

Keyboard Manager

• Fixed an issue that would clear out KBM mappings when certain numpad keys were used as the second key of a chord.
• Added a comment in localization files so that translators won't translate “Text” as “SMS”.

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• Added support to .WebP/.WebM files in the image/video previewer.
• Added support for audio files.
• Fixed an issue causing the open file button in the title bar to be un-clickable.
• Fixed an issue when previewing a folder with a dot in the name that caused Peek to try to preview it as a file.

PowerToys Run

• Added a setting to the Windows Search plugin to exclude files and patterns from the results.
• Fixed an issue showing thumbnails caused by a hash collision between similar images.
• Added the “checkbox and multiline text box” additional property type for plugins and improved multiline text handling.

Quick Accent

• Added the Schwa character to the Italian character set.

Registry Preview

• Allow alternative valid names for the root keys.
• Fixed an issue causing many pick file windows to be opened simultaneously.

Screen Ruler

• Updated the measure icons for clarity.

Shortcut Guide

• Updated the Emoji shortcut that is shown to the new Windows key + period (.) hotkey.

Text Extractor

• Fixed issues creating the extract layout on certain monitor configurations.

Video Conference Mute

• Added enable/disable telemetry to get usage data.

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• Added locks to some terms (like the name of some utilities) so that they aren't localized.
• Fixed some shortcuts not being shown properly in the Flyout and Dashboard.
• Updated image for Color Picker and outdated animations for utilities in OOBE.

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• Added FastWeb plugin to PowerToys Run thirdPartyRunPlugins.md docs.
• Removed the old security link to MSRC from the create new issue page, since security.md is already linked there.
• Added clarity regarding unofficial plugins to the PowerToys Run thirdPartyRunPlugins.md docs.

Development

• Updated System.Drawing.Common to 8.0.3 to fix CI builds after the .NET 8.0.3 upgrade was released.
• Adjusted the GitHub action names for releasing to winget and Microsoft Store so they're clearer in the UI.
• Upgraded WinAppSDK to 1.5.1, fixing many related issues.
• Consolidate the WebView2 version used by WinUI 2 in the Keyboard Manager Editor.
• Unified the use of Precompiled Headers when building on CI.
• Added UI tests for FancyZones Editor in CI.
• Added a GitHub bot to identify possible duplicates when a new issue is created.< /li>
• Updated the WiX installer dependency to 3.14.1 to fix possible security issues.
• Changed the pipelines to use pipeline artifacts instead of build artifacts.
• Added the – graph parameter for pipelines.
• Tests in the pipelines now run as part of the build step to save on CI time.