Power Toys: v0.75.0 Release

In the v0.75 release cycle, we focused on new features, stability and improvements.

Installer Hashes

| Description | Filename | sha256 hash | |----------------|----------|-------------| | Per user - x64 | PowerToysUserSetup-0.75.0-x64.exe | 26C746D5690472082460FED3866627B80A2B50961D77DF683C5E271054C9C97B | | Per user - ARM64 | PowerToysUserSetup-0.75.0-arm64.exe | 8919FF49F3F0C4716D6F58871C9AABEB321292FDAFFB4DCCC9A8FA326D3646D2 | | Machine wide - x64 | PowerToysSetup-0.75.0-x64.exe | C9C7DAB9E002CE7920107132BC98A1A89BFBA8898FC35186A6559587A8ED3C38 | | Machine wide - ARM64 | PowerToysSetup-0.75.0-arm64.exe | 28D9D9E9B69821155F870AF895DEE22866060C1CED08E2117CCBD1853C051698 |

Highlights

• New utility: An environment variables editor with the functionality to configure profiles that can be enabled/disabled. Thanks @niels9001 for the design and UI work that made this possible!
• Settings has a new Dashboard home page, with quick access for enabling modules, short descriptions and activation methods. Thanks @niels9001 for the design and UI work that made this possible!
• Added a previewer to Peek that hosts File Explorer previewers to support every file type that a machine is currently able to preview. For example, this means that if Microsoft Office handlers are installed, Peek can preview Office files. Thanks @dillydylann!

General

• Many typo fixes through the projects and documentation. Thanks @brianteeman!
• Refactored and improved the logic across utilities for bringing a window to the foreground after activation.

Color Picker

• After activating Color Picker, it's now possible to cancel the session by clicking the right mouse button. Thanks @fredso90!

Environment Variables

• Added a new utility: An environment variables editor that has the functionality to configure profiles that can be enabled/disabled. Thanks @niels9001 for the design and UI work that made this possible!
• Shows in the title bar if it's running as an administrator. Thanks @davidegiacometti!

FancyZones

• Fixed an issue causing context menu pop-ups from some apps to automatically snap to a zone. (This was a hotfix for 0.74)
• Applied the fix for the context menu pop-ups to the logic that decides which windows can be snapped.
• Reworked the "Keep windows in their zones" option to include the work area and turn it on by default, fixing an incompatibility with the Copilot flyout.
• Fixed an issue causing windows to be snapped while moving to a different virtual desktop.

File Explorer add-ons

• Fixed an issue blocking some SVG files from being previewed correctly. (This was a hotfix for 0.74)
• Fixed crashes on invalid files in the STL Thumbnail generator.

GPO

• Added a global GPO rule that applies for all utilities unless it's overridden. Thanks @htcfreek!
• Added GPO rules to control which PowerToys Run plugins should be enabled/disabled by policy. Thanks @htcfreek!
  • All plugins have to provide its plugin ID as static property in its Main method.

Image Resizer

• Fixed wrong .bmp file association in the registry. Thanks @meitinger!

Keyboard Manager

• Visually distinguish between the Numpad and regular period characters in the UI.
• This utility is now disabled by default on new installations, since it requires user configuration to affect keyboard behavior.
• Fixed a typo in the Numpad Subtract key in the editor.

Mouse Highlighter

• Removed the lower limit of fade delay and duration, to allow better signaling of doing a double click. Thanks @fredso90!

Mouse Jump

• The process now runs in the background, for a faster activation time. Thanks @mikeclayton!

Peek

• Reported file sizes will now more closely match what's reported by File Explorer. Thanks @Deepak-Sangle!
• Added a previewer that hosts File Explorer previewers to support every file type that a machine is currently able to preview. Thanks @dillydylann!
• Fixed an issue causing the preview of the first file to be stuck loading. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Fixed showing the previously previewed video file when invoking Peek with a new file. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Added the wrap and file formatting options to the Monaco previewer. Thanks @davidegiacometti!

PowerRename

• Save data from the last run in a different file to avoid conflicting with changing settings in the Settings application.

PowerToys Run

• Fixed a case where the query wasn't being cleared after invoking a result action through the keyboard. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Improved the shell selection option for Windows Terminal in the Shell plugin and improved the backend code for adding combo box options to plugins. Thanks @htcfreek!
  • The implementation of the combo box items has changed amd isn't backward compatible. (Old plugins won't crash, but the combo box setting isn't shown in settings ui anymore.)
• Added Unix time in milliseconds, fixed negative unix time input and improved error messages in the TimeDate plugin. Thanks @htcfreek!
• The PowerToys plugin allows calling the new Environment Variables utility. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Refactored and added support to VSCodium Stable, VSCodium Insider and Remote Tunnels workspaces. Thanks @eternalphane!

Quick Accent

• Fixed characters that were removed from "All languages" because they were not in any single language. (This was a hotfix for 0.74)
• Added Asturian characters to the Spanish character set. Thanks @blakestack!
• Added Greek characters with tonos. Thanks @PesBandi!

Registry Preview

• Fixed a parsing error that crashed the Application. (This was a hotfix for 0.74)
• Fixed opening file names with non-ASCII characters. Thanks @randyrants!
• Fixed wrong parsing when the file contained an assignment with spaces around the equals sign. Thanks @randyrants!
• Fixed key transversal issues when a key was a substring of a parent key. Thanks @randyrants!

Runner

• Fixed the update notification toast to show an Unicode arrow. Thanks @TheJoeFin!

Settings

• Added a new Dashboard home page, with quick access for enabling modules, short descriptions and activation methods. Thanks @niels9001 for the design and UI work that made this possible!
• Fixed a typo in the Hosts File Editor page. Thanks @Deepak-Sangle!
• Added a lock icon to the flyout listing of all modules when its enabled state is controlled by policy.
• The "All apps" list in the flyout will now list all apps even if their enabled state is controlled by policy.

Video Conference Mute

• Added an option to allow for the toolbar to hide after some time passed. Thanks @quyenvsp!
• Added an option to select to mute or unmute at startup. Thanks @quyenvsp!
• Fixed an issue causing a cascade of mute/unmute triggers.

Documentation

• Updated the Group Policy documentation on learn.microsoft.com, removed the Group Policy documentation from the repository and linked to the published documentation on learn.microsoft.com instead.

Development

• Added project dependencies to the version project and headers to avoid building errors. Thanks @johnterickson!
• Enabled Control Flow Guard in the C++ projects. Thanks @DHowett!
• Switched the release pipeline to the 1ES governed template. Thanks @DHowett!
• Styled XAML files and added a XAML Style checker to the solution, with a CI action to check if code being contributed is compliant. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Suppressed redundant midl file warnings in PowerRename.
• Add unit tests to FancyZones Editor. Thanks @garv5014, @andrewbengordon and @Cwighty!
• Improved the Default Layouts internal structure in FancyZones Editor. Thanks @garv5014!
• Fixed code issues to allow building in Visual Studio 17.8 Preview 4.