Microsoft has released a new version of PowerToys for Windows 10.

PowerToys v0.20.0

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.

Our goals for 0.20 release cycle were to focus on adding in a few new features along with a heavy focus on stability / quality fixes. Martin Chrzan helped contribute a new utility that was in our 2021 plans, a screen wide color picker! Chris Davis also helped contribute a SVG icon support for File Explorer!

Between 0.19 and 0.20 releases, we tracked down a lot of performance and memory issues with PowerToys Run as well. The most important ones got added to 0.19.1 and 0.19.2 releases. If you find something not working correctly, please make us aware.

In addition, we'd like to thank everyone who filed a bug, gave feedback or made a pull-request. The PowerToys team is extremely grateful to have the support of an amazing active community.

Feedback:

We'd also stress feedback is critical. We know there are areas for improvement on PowerToys Run. We would love feedback so we can improve. We also would love to know if you want us to be more aggressive on auto-upgrading.

Known issues

• Color Picker at times won't work when PT is running elevated - #5348

Release notes:

For the entire commit history, please look at the 0.20 release. Below are just a few of the bullet items from this release.

• Martin Chrzan's Color Picker was added in! With a quick Win+Shift+C, get the color from your screen
• File Explorer - Can now render SVG icons thanks to Chris Davis
• FancyZones - you can now snap to any number of zones in FancyZones holding Shift+Ctrl while dragging a window
• PT Run - keyboard interaction improvements
• PT Run - freshly installed apps are now being detected
• PT Run - Lots of perf and bug fixes
• Keyboard manager - app level shortcuts
  • Example: For Outlook, Remap Ctrl+F to F4 and now Ctrl+F will put up the find window :)
• Keyboard manager - Now can remap key to shortcut and shortcut to key.
• Settings - Now has improved OOBE based on the work the Microsoft Garage Interns did during their hackathon
• PowerRename improvements

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