Microsoft heeft versie 0.102 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:
HighlightsPowerToys 0.102 introduces two new mouse utilities, Mouse Button Lock and CursorHide, a quick-access shelf for Command Palette, and snip dictation in ZoomIt. This release also adds command-line tools for Advanced Paste, Light Switch, Settings, and Peek, brings tap-alone remaps and easier editing to Keyboard Manager, and moves Color Picker and Text Extractor to WinUI 3.
Mouse Button Lock and CursorHideHolding a mouse button down during a long drag or selection can be tiring. With Mouse Button Lock, press and hold a button for a moment, then let go. Windows keeps treating it as held, so you can continue dragging or selecting until you click any button. This is especially useful for gaming, working in professional applications that require extensive dragging and selection, and improving accessibility for users who find it difficult to hold down a mouse button for extended periods. PR: #49279
CursorHide is the second new mouse utility. It hides the mouse pointer while you type, after a period of inactivity, or both, and shows it again as soon as you move the mouse. PR: #50271
Command Palette gets a quick-access shelfCompact mode in 0.101 kept Command Palette out of the way until you needed results. Now your favorite commands can be one keystroke away too. Turn on the quick-access shelf in Settings > Appearance > Compact mode to show your pins below the search box while the palette is collapsed. Press
Alt+1throughAlt+9to launch them, orAlt+Shift+number to select one without running it. Drag to reorder, right-click for more actions, and optionally show recent commands and apps next to your pins.The shelf is just one part of a big Command Palette update:
- Settings search: Fuzzy search finds options, extensions, commands, aliases, and assigned shortcuts, then takes you straight to them.
- Keyboard-first Dock: Press
Win+Alt+Jto focus the dock and move between its items from the keyboard.- Copilot key support: Choose Command Palette as the Copilot key app in Windows Settings, and press the key again to toggle the palette.
- Multiple clocks: Pin several dock clocks, each with its own time zone and format.
- Language and links: Pick an app language for Command Palette, and copy links that open a page, run a command, or jump to a specific setting.
- Polish: Sharper app icons, faster grid and gallery browsing, results that keep loading at the end of a list, and clearer nested menus.
PRs: #49915, #50894, and #50812
ZoomIt adds snip dictationZoomIt can now capture what you say along with what you snip. Turn on Snip with dictation in the ZoomIt settings, then press Space while you drag out a snip and describe what you're capturing. ZoomIt transcribes your speech on your device, and a single paste delivers both the screenshot and your text. Dictation uses the microphone selected under Record.
ZoomIt also gets smooth zoom transitions, better audio pacing in recordings, and a fix for silent recordings on multichannel and spatial-audio devices.
New command-line toolsMore of PowerToys can now be scripted from the terminal:
- Advanced Paste: Run built-in and custom actions without opening the UI, using files, stdin/stdout, or the clipboard. AI actions use your configured providers and policies.
- Light Switch: Check status, set or toggle the theme, and manage schedules, with JSON output.
- Settings: See which utilities are enabled, and turn them on or off even while PowerToys isn't running.
- Peek: Preview multiple files and folders from the command line.
- PowerDisplay: JSON Lines output makes results and errors easy to consume from scripts.
- On your PATH: FancyZones, Image Resizer, File Locksmith, and PowerDisplay commands now work from any terminal folder.
PRs: #50834, #50459, #50507, and #49724
Keyboard Manager adds tap-alone remaps and easier editingKeyboard Manager now supports tap-alone remaps. Tap a key by itself to trigger a different action, while the key keeps working normally in shortcuts and mouse combinations. Large remapping lists are easier to manage too, with search, modifier and app filters, and bulk deletion.
The new editor also gets a searchable key picker, so you can select any key, including media keys or keys your keyboard doesn't have, and build a full shortcut with just the mouse. Recording now only listens while the editor is in focus, and Tab moves you out of the recording field. IT admins can also deploy and export remapping profiles with DSC v3.
PRs: #49136 and #49287 (Thanks, @MasaYan24!), #51150, and #49427
Other notable changes
- Color Picker and Text Extractor: Both move to WinUI 3, with a new overlay, editor, and magnifier for Color Picker. Your existing shortcuts and settings carry over.
- FancyZones: Scroll the mouse wheel while dragging a window to switch layouts, with an optional indicator showing the selected layout's name.
- Peek: Added read-only SQLite previews, file and subfolder counts with scanning progress for folders, a plain-text fallback, and
Alt+Left/Alt+Rightnavigation between files.- Screen Ruler: Measure in device-independent pixels to account for each monitor's scaling, with improved edge detection.
- Environment Variables: A new Remove duplicates action cleans up PATH while keeping the original order.
- Quick Accent: A searchable character reference in Settings lets you browse language sets and copy characters directly.
- Grab and Move: Exclude specific apps so they keep their normal modifier-key behavior.
- Shortcut Guide: Added shortcuts for Claude Desktop and Ableton Live, and made indexing more resilient to malformed manifests.
- Workspaces: Now asks for confirmation before launching an unverified app configured to run as administrator.
- Awake: Windows can now turn off the display while the PC is locked, without ending your keep-awake session.
- New+: Fixed a File Explorer memory leak and improved long-path handling.
- Settings: Added an interactive animated welcome scene, fixed a memory leak when switching pages, and kept module on/off preferences when a utility fails to load.
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