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

Microsoft PowerToys

Microsoft PowerToys 0.87.0

  -  274 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 0.87.0.


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What's new in this version:

Highlights:
- Advanced Paste has a new feature called "Advanced AI" that uses Semantic Kernel to allow setting up the orchestration of sequential clipboard transformations
- Workspaces supports Progressive Web Applications
- Workspaces has a new feature to move existing windows instead of creating new ones
- Mouse Jump added new settings to allow customization of screens pop-up
- New+ now works on Windows 10
- Quick Accent allows selecting the character sets that should appear on the UI

Advanced Paste:
- Added a new optional feature allowing using AI to set up the orchestration of sequential clipboard transformations

Awake:
- Initialization, logging and tray icon setup improvements

File Explorer add-ons:
- Preview Pane extensions now use the PerMonitorV2 DPI mode to fix errors on different scales

Keyboard Manager:
- Added labels to the IME On, IME Off keys
- Fixed an issue that caused the Shift key to remain stuck if a numpad key was mapped to the Shift key

Monaco Preview:
- Added support for .ahk files to be shown as a plaintext file in Peek and File Explorer add-ons
- Added support for .ion files to be shown as a plaintext file in Peek and File Explorer add-ons
- Added support for syntax highlighting for .srt files in Peek and File Explorer add-ons

Mouse Jump:
- Allow customizing the appearance of the UI of the Mouse Jump pop-up

New+:
- Added support for Windows 10
- Fixed an issue causing the renaming of new files to not trigger some times
- Updated the New+ icons

Peek:
- Peek now checks local capabilities to decide what image formats Image Previewer is able to support
- Fixed an issue causing the Code Files Previewer to not load correctly under certain conditions
- Refactored, improved and fixed logging when loading the user settings file

PowerToys Run:
- Added a scoring function for proper ordering of the WindowWalker plugin results
- Added UUIDv7 support to the ValueGenerator plugin
- The calculator plugin now allows scientific notation numbers with a lowercase 'e'
- Ported the UI from WPF-UI to .NET 9 WPF, to fix "Desktop composition is disabled" crashes.

Quick Accent:
- Added a setting to allow selecting which character sets to show

Screen Ruler:
- Added a Setting to also allow showing measurements in inches, centimeters or millimeters

Settings:
- Fixed an issue causing all the links to milestones in the "What's new?" OOBE page to point to the same milestone.
- Removed extra space from the Welcome page
- Updated left navigation bar icons
- Fixed accessibility issues in the dashboard page

Workspaces:
- Added support for Progressive Web Applications to Workspaces
- Implemented a feature to move existing windows instead of creating new ones
- Fixed a crash when opening the workspaces editor that was caused by passing incorrect encoder parameters when saving Bitmap files
- Workspaces editor position is now saved so that we can start it at the same position when we open it again
- Fixed an issue causing many instances of the same application to be put in the same position instead of the intended position due to timer issues
- Fixed detection of exact application version when many versions of the same application are installed

Documentation:
- Improved language in CONTRIBUTE.md
- Added Bilibili plugin mention to thirdPartyRunPlugins.md
- Added CanIUse and TailwindCSS plugins mention to thirdPartyRunPlugins.md
- Added HttpStatusCodes plugin mention to thirdPartyRunPlugins.md
- Updated COMMUNITY.md with more contributors

Development:
- Upgraded to .NET 9
- Fixed building on Visual Studio 17.12.
- Upgraded the System.IO.Abstractions dependency to 21.0.29
- Upgraded the WindowsAppSDK dependency to 1.6.241114003
- Upgraded the MSTest dependency to 3.6.3
- Upgraded the check-spelling CI dependency to 0.0.24 and fixed related spell checking issues
- Removed duplicate names from the spellcheck allowed names file
- Improved logging of asynchronous methods call stacks when logging an error
- Created a MSBuild props file to be imported by other projects to enable AOT support
- Made the Peek utility source code AOT compatible
- Updated .editorconfig rules to relax squiggly IDE errors in Visual Studio 17.12
- Moved Xaml.Styler from the root to the src folder