This preview release fixes Shortcut Guide activation, preserves transparency in SVG thumbnails, prevents a Screen Ruler settings crash, and updates Window Hopper discovery.

Installer Hashes

| Description | Filename | sha256 hash | | --- | --- | --- | | Per user - x64 | PowerToysUserSetup-0.101.2312.0-x64.exe | 0CE7DC41F2CA13C93AFFAAE50CD4B681442D9FFC082078B8DA6EC14246157AC1 | | Per user - ARM64 | PowerToysUserSetup-0.101.2312.0-arm64.exe | 5664F4582AFFDE22615A67BD96C4FE2E1C4F88D58E92BC3E2B19F006A0A54B90 | | Machine wide - x64 | PowerToysSetup-0.101.2312.0-x64.exe | B0289AD15A29B6E2AC4DAC885ED1AB5311578F2BA1984BACDA319A0109C5F8E7 | | Machine wide - ARM64 | PowerToysSetup-0.101.2312.0-arm64.exe | 89E5842A1C2515D6811589FD0B5032C6DFA4555FF56772E3CB5A9A466268D04E |

Highlights

Shortcut Guide: Made Win+Shift+/ reliably open the full guide independently of Windows-key hold settings and remain visible after Win is released.
File Explorer: Preserved transparent backgrounds in SVG thumbnails instead of rendering them black.
Screen Ruler: Migrated legacy measurement-unit settings to prevent Settings from crashing when leaving the Screen Ruler page.
Window Hopper: Moved the New badges from Shortcut Guide to Window Hopper across Settings and the welcome experience.

Advanced Paste

Added regression coverage to keep custom actions compatible with OpenAI models that do not support reasoning-effort settings in #49867 by @Sthitadhi1.

File Explorer

Preserved transparent SVG thumbnail backgrounds and fixed an image-resize resource leak in #49301 by @pedrolamas.

PowerToys Run

Added PoetSearch to the third-party plugin list for searching classical Chinese poetry in #49946 by @Greyaircraft.

Screen Ruler

Migrated legacy measurement-unit values to valid settings, preventing Settings from crashing when navigating away from Screen Ruler in #49898.

Shortcut Guide

Separated regular-hotkey activation from Windows-key hold activation, so Win+Shift+/ reliably opens the full guide and stays visible after Win is released in #50000 by @LegendaryBlair.

Window Hopper

Moved the New badges from Shortcut Guide to Window Hopper throughout Settings and the welcome experience in #49995.

Development

Separated common .NET project properties from WinRT-specific settings and made CI validation faster and more robust in #48059 by @daverayment.