A set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience

Microsoft PowerToys

Microsoft PowerToys 0.56.1

  -  59.5 MB  -  Freeware

Sometimes latest versions of the software can cause issues when installed on older devices or devices running an older version of the operating system.

Software makers usually fix these issues but it can take them some time. What you can do in the meantime is to download and install an older version of Microsoft PowerToys 0.56.1.


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What's new in this version:

- Upgrade notes! A big feedback items for new versions was upgrade notes. We have the release notes on GitHub as well.
- FancyZones zone limit has been increased to 128 zones. Before the limit was 40.
- Timezone conversion plugin for PowerToys Run!
- Child and Popup window support for FancyZones. To enable, go to Settings→FancyZones→Windows. These were bugs we fixed that without realizing it was a useful feature to most.
- Find my mouse will now activate via shaking the mouse with a settings change

Always on Top:
- Fixed excess GPU / CPU usage when enabled
- If border has focus, not closable via F4
- Changing border sizes should resize correctly for existing windows
- Border goes away with Outlook modal windows

ColorPicker:
- No longer crashes during theme change

FancyZones:
- Increased zone limit from 40 to 128
- Child and Popup window support for FancyZones. To enable, go to Settings→FancyZones→Windows. These were bugs we fixed that without realizing it was a useful feature to most.

File explorer:
- Fixes for Dev file preview
- Fix fix for object reference not set
- Fix for encoding UTF-8
- Fix for file is in use
- Fix for saying the file is too big

Image Resizer:
- Fix for invalid operation error

Mouse utility:
- Find my mouse will now activate via shaking the mouse with a settings change
- Find my mouse now can excludes apps
- Fix for crosshair thickness looking odd due to anti-aliasing
- Fix for a hard crash on crosshair (This was a hotfix for 0.55)

PowerRename:
- Will not spells check file names anymore
- Autocomplete result box to not obscure apply button
- Regex fix

PowerToys Run:
- Timezone conversion plugin for PowerToys Run
- Hexadecimal and binary numbers now are supported in the calculator plugin. This was added a bit ago and we'd like to extend a belated
- Terminal plugin performance boost
- Terminal will now be found via the Program plugin again
- Shutdown command is now using hybrid fast argument for shutting down
- Support for VSCodium with VS Code workplace plugin

Video conference mute:
- nVidia Broadcast software won't crash anymore

Settings:
- Upgrade notes in OOBE
- Fix for settings being lost (This was a hotfix for 0.55)
- UX improvements

Installer:
- Believe we have a fix for the long hated "app.dark.png is missing" error
- Installer will launch PowerToys under appropriate elevation versus Admin only due to UAC prompt for installation (This was a hotfix for 0.55)
- PowerToys will now start if installed under different user

Development:
- ARM64 - We removed the last .NET Framework dependency
- .NET 6 upgrade, now on the newest and hottest .NET runtime
- Code analyzers have been upgraded
- Symbols are back
- Code refactoring
- We are now on VS 2022 with the .NET 6 upgrade