PowerToys 0.81.0 is now available. Key improvements include fixing triggered Advanced Paste issues, adding a GPO rule to disable AI online models, improving descriptions on Advanced Paste settings and OOBE pages, resolving clipboard history issues, and addressing PowerToys Run's accent color issue in Windows Settings.
PowerToys v0.81.1
This is a patch release to fix issues in v0.81.0 we deemed important for stability based on incoming rates. See v0.81.0 for full release notes.
Installer Hashes
Description Filename sha256 hash Per user - x64 PowerToysUserSetup-0.81.1-x64.exe 412E0CB2043E280A841DBF726764B273CCBFD9357E760CDC2DEE1BC0018C3B58 Per user - ARM64 PowerToysUserSetup-0.81.1-arm64.exe 73305AFF8B088DC623CCE5014CD8A7E65FF2818D4779829EA4EEBF6E5E8E9812 Machine wide - x64 PowerToysSetup-0.81.1-x64.exe 9FF86D15203FBCC85666921DE4E4EBBC66C6BA41814EFF4E3313BE81831B2183 Machine wide - ARM64 PowerToysSetup-0.81.1-arm64.exe 75483B697947A3FC73E332C35687C487AE7E1103C8F564B342B8E5D578962359 Highlights
- #32971 - Fixed Advanced Paste was being triggered by some external software when some of the hotkeys were not set. Slack's tray icon was the most common example in the issues that were opened.
- #32947 - Added a GPO rule for Advanced Paste to disable AI online models usage and prevent users from entering the API key.
- #33006 - Improved descriptions on Advanced Paste Settings and OOBE pages to clarify that usage of AI is opt-in and that it can be used without AI.
- #32945 - Fixed the Advanced Paste settings page UX showing that it could enable/disable clipboard history when that feature is not allowed by GPO.
- #30206 - Fixed PowerToys Run showing the accent color on the title bar when that option is turned on in Windows Settings.
