Download PowerToys 0.61.0

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Microsoft has released version 0.61.0 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 currently consist of awake, Color picker, Fancy Zones, File Explorer Addons, Image Resizer, KeyboardManager, PowerRename, Power Toys Run, Shortcut Guide and the Video Conference Mute. The changelog for this release shows the following changes and improvements.

Highlights

known issues

After installing Power Toys, the new Windows 11 context menu entries for PowerRename and Image Resizer might not appear before a system restart.
There are reports of users who are unable to open the Settings window. This is being caused by incompatibilities with some applications (RTSS RivaTuner Statistics Server and MSI AfterBurner are known examples of this). If you’re affected by this, please check the linked issue to verify if any of the presented solutions works for you.

General

Upgraded the Windows App SDK runtimes to 1.1.2.
The new Windows 11 context menu entries are now correctly added to Windows 11 dev channel insider builds. (This was a hot fix for 0.60)
The old context menu entries are shown alongside the new Windows 11 context menu entries to be compatible with software that overrides the Windows 11 context menu behavior. (This was a hot fix for 0.60)
Consolidated C# language version across the solution.
Removed deprecated Segoe icon glyph codes and replaced them with the correct ones.
Fixed an issue that caused a random accent key to be pressed on certain keyboard layouts when enabling some modules.

Always on Top

Fancy Zones

Fixed a bug that caused layouts to not be applied correctly when many monitors reported having the same serial number. (This was a hot fix for 0.60)
Fixed a bug that caused layouts to not be applied correctly on some virtual monitor setups (This was a hotfix for 0.60)
A “Rows” default layout is now applied to vertical monitors, instead of a “Columns” layout.

Image Resizer

File explorer add-ons

KeyboardManager

mouse utility

Fixed a bug that caused the current Find My Mouse spotlight to hang when activated in the top left corner of the screen. (This was a hot fix for 0.60)

PowerRename

Power Toys Run

Fixed a typo in the WindowWalker plugin UI.
Improved performance by saving the search history files only on exit.
PowerToys Run no longer shows results for some plugins when querying for empty spaces in a global query.
Added support for showing localized names for some win32 programs in the programs plugin.
The program plugin will now consider settings changed directly in ProgramPluginSettings.json.

Settings

PowerToys Run settings page properly grays out the score adjustment setting when a plugin is not global.
PowerToys Run plugins score adjustment field accepts only numeric characters.
Will not run if started directly from its executable, as it was before the WinUI 3 upgrade.
Fixed a typo in a PowerToys Run settings page description.

installer

Removed the dead code to make a msix installer.
Updated the .NET dependency to 6.0.7.
Won’t create a new PowerToys shortcut on update if it’s been removed manually by the user.

Development

Updated the Windows Store Package submission script to show less UI while installing PowerToys. (This was a hot fix for 0.60)
Added more functionality to the Monitor Report Tool.
The release CI now includes the version number in the symbols artifacts.
GitHub should now show .vsconfig as a JSON file.
Centralized the configurations for NetAnalyzers and StyleCop.
Check-spelling has been upgraded to version 0.0.20.