PowerToys 0.87 is out with a new utility for Windows 10 users and a lot of improvements

PowerToys 0.87 is out with a new utility for Windows 10 users and a lot of improvements

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The December 2024 replace for PowerToys is right here. The ultimate launch of 2024 brings some excellent news for Home windows 10 customers: the not too long ago launched New+ utility now works okay Home windows 10. Additionally, there are enhancements for Superior Paste, Workspaces, Mouse Leap, and different utilities.

Listed below are the replace highlights:

  • Superior Paste has a brand new function known as “Superior AI” that makes use of Semantic Kernel to permit organising the orchestration of sequential clipboard transformations.
  • Workspaces helps Progressive Internet Purposes.
  • Workspaces has a brand new function to maneuver present home windows as an alternative of making new ones.
  • Mouse Leap added new settings to permit customization of screens pop-up.
  • New+ now works on Home windows 10.
  • Fast Accent permits choosing the character units that ought to seem on the UI.

And right here is the entire changelog:

Superior Paste

  • Added a brand new non-obligatory function permitting utilizing AI to arrange the orchestration of sequential clipboard transformations.

Awake

  • Initialization, logging and tray icon setup enhancements.

File Explorer add-ons

  • Preview Pane extensions now use the PerMonitorV2 DPI mode to repair errors on totally different scales.

Keyboard Supervisor

  • Added labels to the IME On, IME Off keys.
  • Fastened a problem that triggered the Shift key to stay caught if a numpad key was mapped to the Shift key.

Monaco Preview

  • Added assist for .ahk recordsdata to be proven as a plaintext file in Peek and File Explorer add-ons.
  • Added assist for .ion recordsdata to be proven as a plaintext file in Peek and File Explorer add-ons.
  • Added assist for syntax highlighting for .srt recordsdata in Peek and File Explorer add-ons.

Mouse Leap

  • Enable customizing the looks of the UI of the the Mouse Leap pop-up.

New+

  • Added assist for Home windows 10.
  • Fastened a problem inflicting the renaming of recent recordsdata to not set off some occasions.
  • Up to date the New+ icons.

Peek

  • Peek now checks native capabilities to resolve what picture codecs Picture Previewer is ready to assist.
  • Fastened a problem inflicting the Code Information Previewer to not load accurately below sure circumstances.
  • Refactored, improved and glued loggin when loading the consumer settings file.

PowerToys Run

  • Added a scoring operate for correct ordering of the WindowWalker plugin outcomes.
  • Added UUIDv7 assist to the ValueGenerator plugin.
  • The calculator plugin now permits scientific notation numbers with a lowercase ‘e’.
  • Ported the UI from WPF-UI to .NET 9 WPF, to repair “Desktop composition is disabled” crashes.

Fast Accent

  • Added a setting to permit choosing which character units to indicate.

Display Ruler

  • Added a Setting to additionally enable exhibiting measurements in inches, centimeters or millimeters.

Settings

  • Fastened a problem inflicting all of the hyperlinks to milestones within the “What’s new?” OOBE web page to level to the identical milestone.
  • Eliminated further house from the Welcome web page.
  • Up to date left navigation bar icons.
  • Fastened accessibility points within the dashboard web page.

Workspaces

  • Added assist for Progressive Internet Purposes to Workspaces.
  • Carried out a function to maneuver present home windows as an alternative of making new ones.
  • Fastened a crash when opening the workspaces editor that was brought on by passing incorrect encoder parameters when saving Bitmap recordsdata.
  • Workspaces editor place is now saved in order that we are able to begin it on the similar place after we open it once more.
  • Fastened a problem inflicting many situations of the identical utility to be put in the identical place as an alternative of the supposed place on account of timer points.
  • Fastened detection of tangible utility model when many variations of the identical utility are put in.

You may obtain PowerToys from the Microsoft Retailer or GitHub.

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