Microsoft heeft versie 0.95.0 van PowerToys uitgebracht. De PowerToys zijn een verzameling kleine programma's voor powerusers. Er waren PowerToys voor Windows 95 en Windows XP, en sinds halverwege 2019 is Microsoft ook bezig met de ontwikkeling van een versie voor Windows 10 en hoger. De PowerToys bestaan onder meer uit Awake, Color Picker, FancyZones, File Explorer Add-ons, Image Resizer, Keyboard Manager, PowerRename, PowerToys Run en Shortcut Guide. In deze uitgave zijn de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen aangebracht:
HighlightsFor an in-depth look at the latest changes, visit the release blog.
Command Palette
- NEW: The Light Switch utility in PowerToys allows you to automatically switch between light and dark themes in Windows based on the time of day.
- Command Palette delivered major search performance gains (new fuzzy matcher + smarter fallbacks) improving relevance and speed.
- Peek can now be used activated using the Space bar!
- Find My Mouse added transparent spotlight with independent backdrop opacity, boosting focus and accessibility.
- Settings now lets you delete shortcuts entirely and ignore conflicts.
- Mouse Pointer Crosshairs gained orientation options (vertical / horizontal / both) for customizable accessibility.
- PowerRename fixed enumeration counter skipping ensuring reliable batch renames.
- ZoomIt restored legacy draw/snipping behaviors and fixed recording races improving reliability.
Command Palette Extensions
- Reorganized core projects and introduced CoreLogger to reduce dependencies.
- Applied conditional margin for icon-only tags to tighten layout.
- Added setting to choose Clipboard History primary action (Paste vs Copy).
- Prevented false "Unresponsive" flags for UWP apps in Window Walker.
- Hardened activation flow for x-cmdpal:// links with synchronous handling + timeout.
- Enabled AOT by default for performance while simplifying publish configs.
- Cleaned and codified .editorconfig without behavior change.
- Replaced service state color dots with play/pause/stop icons for accessibility.
- Fixed filter dropdown sync and crash by binding SelectedValue and raising UI-thread notifications.
- Ensured long links wrap correctly in details view.
- Removed animation + enforced min width on filter dropdown for clarity.
- Restored focus to More button after ESC closes context menu improving keyboard flow.
- Marked main and toast windows as tool windows to keep them out of
Alt+Tabwhile preserving style.- Fixed AOT template + theming issues for filter separators.
- Introduced grid layouts (small/medium/gallery) for richer page presentation.
- Materialized result lists to avoid rescoring overhead.
- Disabled problematic selection TextToSuggest behind env flag.
- Resolved AOT warning by making IconMarginConverter partial.
- Major search performance improvements (new fuzzy matcher, smarter fallbacks, fewer exceptions).
- Added context menu "Show Details" command when details pane hidden.
- Reduced window flicker by avoiding unnecessary cloaking.
- Restored EmptyContent rendering for blank states.
- Saved new state even if prior app state file corrupt (better resilience).
- Migrated settings window to WinUI TitleBar control.
- Prevented crash on duplicate keybindings and simplified matching.
- Centralized fullscreen ignore-hotkey logic for summon handling.
- Hid search box on content pages; improved focus and a11y; added Home title.
- Synced generated resource comment to eliminate noisy diffs.
- Blocked
Ctrl+Ifrom inserting stray tab in search box.- Logged HRESULT codes in error logs for deeper diagnostics.
- Advanced font/emoji icon classification & alignment improvements.
- Preserved fallback item icons in Settings by storing initial icon.
- Fixed breadcrumb margin misalignment (visual polish).
- Truncated overly long command labels with ellipsis to prevent overflow.
Environment Variables
- Replaced localized WebSearch setting keys with stable literals and numeric history count.
- Enabled advanced markdown tables and emphasis extensions.
- Added actionable empty-state hints for File Search (search PC / open indexing settings).
- Ensured all WinGet extension assets copy reliably to output.
- Improved Run command line parsing for paths with spaces; sped up related tests.
- Updated WebSearch extension icon set for clarity and contrast.
- Added Terminal profile sort order setting including MRU tracking.
- Added Uninstall Application command (UWP direct, Win32 via Settings).
- Deferred WinGet details loading and added timing logs.
- Removed LINQ from All Apps extension for performance.
- Added standardized key chord system + shortcuts to File Search commands.
- Added Terminal channel filter & remembered selection option.
- Enabled loading local/data/app images in markdown with sizing hints.
- Added external extension reload via x-cmdpal://reload (configurable).
- Instant WebSearch history updates with in-memory store & events.
- Added keep-after-paste option and safe delete with confirmation for Clipboard History.
File Locksmith
- Replaced custom window chrome with WinUI TitleBar for cleaner, maintainable Environment Variables UI.
Find My Mouse
- Adopted WinUI TitleBar to simplify window chrome while preserving appearance.
Hosts File Editor
- Added transparent spotlight support with separate backdrop opacity; migrated to WASDK composition.
Light Switch
- Migrated to native WinUI TitleBar for cleaner, maintainable window chrome.
Mouse Pointer Crosshairs
- Introduced as a brand-new PowerToy module.
- Automatically switches between light and dark themes.
- Supports time-based scheduling or location-based sunrise/sunset switching.
- Supports using a keyboard shortcut to force a change.
- Supports filtering changes for Apps and/or System Theme.
Mouse Without Borders
- Added Esc key to cancel active gliding cursor sequence.
- Added orientation option (vertical / horizontal / both) for crosshairs customization.
Peek
- Continued Common class refactor (part 5/7) by extracting clipboard and init/cleanup logic into focused classes.
PowerRename
- Added optional single Space key activation with context-aware eligibility and telemetry.
Quick Accent
- Fixed enumeration counter skipping when regex replacement equals original filename (counters now advance reliably).
Registry Preview
- Expanded Welsh layout with acute, grave, and dieresis variants for vowels (consistent ordering).
Screen Ruler
- Migrated to native TitleBar and AppWindow APIs for cleaner window chrome.
Settings
- Fixed ARM64 crash by aligning cursor position structure to 8-byte boundary.
ZoomIt
- Added ability to ignore specific hotkey conflicts to reduce noise.
- Stopped creating backup directory during dry-run status checks (cleaner first-run).
- Standardized casing and localization for ZoomIt and modules header.
- Improved search results page accessibility and conditional module grouping.
Documentation
- Updated resource file to reflect standalone v9.01 and current copyright year.
- Restored legacy draw/snipping behaviors and fixed recording race conditions.
Development (Area-Build & Area-Tests)
- New Microsoft Learn documentation for the Light Switch module.
- New dev docs for the Light Switch module.
- Allowed debug launches to continue when modules fail to load, speeding developer iteration.
- Fixed spell checker dictionary entry (advapi) to eliminate false error.
- Added VS Code development guide and launch configs to streamline cross-editor workflows.
- Upgraded Windows App SDK and related dependencies to 1.8 for newer platform features.
- Rewrote YAML comment to resolve new spell checker forbidden pattern.
- Corrected solution structure by returning misplaced Common project, reducing build confusion.
- Modernized build scripts with shared helpers and VS environment autodetection for simpler CLI builds.
- Standardized build scripts and platform detection to improve reliability and reuse.
- Added missing Command Palette version bump to align module release cadence.
- Added EXECUTEDEFAULT term to dictionary to prevent regression build failures.
- Introduced nightly pre-warm pipeline and configurable MSBuild cache mode to improve CI performance.
- Resolved CI forbidden pattern spelling complaint to keep pipelines green.
- Added AI contributor instruction set to clarify code area expectations.
- Added accessibility IDs to settings and FancyZones toggles, stabilizing UI tests.
- Added automatic log collection on UI test failures to speed root cause analysis.
- Stabilized Mouse Utils tests by switching to AccessibilityId selectors.
- Added Screen Ruler UI test coverage to validate core measurement workflows.
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