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Preview v0.101.2572.0

This preview includes the latest features, fixes, and improvements since PowerToys Preview v0.101.2522.0.

Installer Hashes

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Highlights

• Mouse Utilities: Added Auto Hide Cursor, with independent keyboard-input and pointer-inactivity triggers.
• Keyboard Manager: Added DSC v3 profile deployment for key and shortcut remappings.
• Power Display: Added drag-and-drop and menu controls for reordering saved profiles.
• Quick Accent: Fixed the toolbar remaining stuck after focus leaves the active window.
• Advanced Paste: Fixed crashes with HTML-only clipboard content.
• Settings: Added smooth animations to the update activity banner.

Advanced Paste

• Fixed crashes with HTML-only clipboard content while expanding deterministic offline UI coverage in #50504

Command Palette

• Improved stability by consistently dispatching MainWindow UI messages and session updates on the UI thread in #50392 by @jiripolasek

Keyboard Manager

• Added a DSC v3 resource for deploying key and shortcut remapping profiles through dsc.exe and WinGet Configuration in #49427 by @Gijsreyn

Mouse Utilities

• Added an optional Auto Hide Cursor utility that hides the pointer after keyboard input or inactivity and restores it on genuine mouse input in #50271 by @DamianEdwards

Mouse Without Borders

• Improved Settings reconnection handling by validating each local caller while preserving normal Settings and pairing behavior in #50480

Power Display

• Added drag-and-drop and menu controls for reordering saved profiles while preserving stable profile identities in #50453
• Reduced settings writes and module notifications by persisting only monitor preferences edited in Settings in #50510

Quick Accent

• Fixed the toolbar so it hides when focus leaves the active window, preventing it from remaining stuck on screen in #50212 by @amail80

Settings

• Added smooth show and dismiss animations to the update activity banner in #50375

Development

• Expanded Keyboard Manager UI coverage for remapping search, modifier and application filters, no-results recovery, and bulk deletion in #50352 by @MasaYan24
• Expanded New+ end-to-end UI coverage across Settings and Windows 10 and 11 File Explorer context-menu workflows in #50534 <!-- END POWERTOYS PREVIEW AGENT -->