Microsoft has released PowerToys 0.21.1 for Windows 10 as well an experimental version 0.22.0.
PowerToys v0.21.1
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 0.21 release cycle was to focus on stability, localization and quality of life improvements for both the development team and our end users.
Where is the Video Conference utility?
Please use the pre-release 0.22 installer if you want to use this utility.
Release Notes
For the entire commit history, please look at the 0.21 release. Below are just a few of the bullet items from this release.
PT Run:
- Removed need for space in action keywords. This means you now can type >ipconfig
- Icon caches fixed and now has colored icons
- Improved font rendering via ClearType (Shout out to @AnuthaDev doing the heavy lifting here)
- Result speed improvements
- URLs are supported
- Fixed bugs including calculating bugs
FancyZone:
- Win+Arrow key is directional based on zone rect
- Fixed bugs
Runner:
- Fixed toast notifications running elevated from non-admin account
Shortcut Guide:
- Improved vkey catching which will fix some use cases of it not showing up
SVG in File Explorer:
- Embedded image tags will now render in Explorer
Color Picker:
- Fixed bug where it would launch via false positive keystrokes
Accessibility:
- Settings, PT Run and KBM undergoing improvements
Localization:
- Pipeline is now setup and will be doing a full E2E pass on all utilities shortly.
Dev quality of life improvements:
- Continued warning count reduction. This release ~80 removed
- StyleCop enabled E2E
- FxCop starting to be added in E2E
Download PowerToys v0.21.1
Download PowerToys v0.22.0 (Experimental)
