IT House February 1 news, Microsoft called PowerToys free system utility suite resurrected from the Windows XP era, and in May 2019 introduced Windows 10 system. Can be used by advanced users to tune and simplify Windows operations to improve efficiency. IT House learned that by pairing with the Windows 10/Windows 11 shell, it allows users to customize individual workflows.
Microsoft released PowerToys 0.55.0 today, marking the third release of the year. In the release notes, Microsoft added that the release cycle for PowerToys v0.55 is to continue to prepare for PowerToys ARM64, fix some top-level issues and introduce new utilities.
Previous work helped get the team to upgrade the code base to. .NET 5, after which you will be upgraded to . NET 6, which should lead to increased stability and speed. In terms of introducing new utilities, Microsoft announced three new toys, which are described below.
File Explorer plugin: Preview the developer files in the pane. In total, about 150 file extensions have been added. We are using the Monaco Editor to support this experience.
File Explorer Plugin: STL File Format Thumbnails and Preview Pane Build! Since STL is a common 3D file format, this allows for quick visual inspection.
Mouse tool: Cross the mouse pointer with Ctrl+Alt+P. This feature was developed in conjunction with Microsoft's accessibility team. When the team told us about the idea and described trying to find your cursor through the eyedropper, we knew that we could quickly enable the feature using code from other mouse tools. Here's a quote from a tester roughly validating a build. "It will change my life so that I don't often lose my pointer when using any computer." This is a huge change! I will be able to work again at my normal pace. For people with visual impairments, this is a complete game changer! Joanna A said.
Here's the full update
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The .NET runtime is now 5 and our next version will be upgraded to . NET 6。 Migrate to . Then migrating to .NET 5 to 6 helps reduce moving parts in a single version. Why this is important is because this is one of the main work items required to support ARM64. Also, once we are in . Run on NET 6, which will help provide speed gains.
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Always at the top
Fixed one of two bugs where the border was displayed incorrectly.
The border now defaults to the operating system's accent color.
Reduced CPU/GPU activity. Improvements haven't been made yet, and we know we can do better.
FancyZones
Fixed an issue where regions were not lost after an update.
Fixed an edge issue with the Chinese editor.
File Explorer add-on
GCode thumbnails now have transparency.
New Tools - Developer files in the File Explorer preview pane. In total, about 150 file extensions have been added. We are using the Monaco editor to support this experience.
NEW TOOLS - Added STL thumbnails and preview pane!
Picture adjuster
Fixed a bug with too much metadata.
Fixed a bug that adjusted a constant height while maintaining the aspect ratio.
Mouse utilities
New tool - Overlines the pointer via Ctrl+Alt+P. This feature was developed in conjunction with Microsoft's accessibility team.
PowerRename
Files are now sorted by the way File Explorer sorts them.
PowerToys Run
Improved speed and fixed bugs in the Window walker plugin.
Window Walker now displays the path to the elevated application.
Added UEFI commands to system commands.
Fixed a crash bug in the EnvironmentHelper class.
Fixed a bug for URI plugin with ^:.
Fixed an issue where the VS Code plugin did not display the workspace for the latest Code version.
Fixed a bug that caused the plugin to fail to load.
Fixed a crash for the Uri plugin and the web search plugin.
Set up
Fixed an issue where settings were reset when moving from administrator to non-administrator.
Mute the video conference
Fixed a crash issue with Zoom and other clients. We found someone who could debug remotely and identified the part that actually crashed.
Behavior change: When leaving a meeting, VCM now keeps your microphone in its original state. This simulates the behavior of the application when VCM does not exist.
Behavior changes: When you exit PowerToys, your current microphone state remains.