Exterior of the assorted native customization and tweaking apps Home windows already comes with, Microsoft additionally presents PowerToys which brings with it varied helpful utilities like Superior Paste, FancyZones, File Explorer add-ons, Registry Preview, and keyboard and mouse supervisor, amongst others.

Because the identify itself suggests, PowerToys is supposed for energy customers and Home windows fanatics.

The newest replace, model 0.89.0, provides media transcoding help to Superior Paste. Microsoft had teased the characteristic final month and it has lastly landed immediately.

Except for the brand new media file conversion skills in PowerToys, the brand new replace additionally fixes a bug the place the PowerLauncher EXE file would block the creation of shortcuts from different MSI (Home windows Installer file). There may be additionally an 18% efficiency enhance for the At all times On Prime (AoT) utility because of optimizations to the logger perform.

The complete changelog is given beneath:

Highlights

• Enhanced Superior Paste by including media transcoding help to transform completely different video and audio file codecs! Thanks @snickler to your assist!
• Mounted crashes when loading thumbnails after the .NET 9 replace and resolved PowerLauncher.exe blocking different MSI installers from creating shortcuts!
• Mounted accessibility points throughout FancyZones, Picture Resizer, and Settings to enhance display screen reader help and readability!
• Enhanced UI automation framework throughout modules and added new exams to cowl handbook checks, with extra enhancements coming!

Basic

• Mounted a difficulty the place updating PowerToys on Home windows 11 didn’t correctly replace context menu entries, impacting New+, PowerRename, Picture Resizer, and File Locksmith.

• Up to date .NET Packages from 9.0.1 to 9.0.2. Thanks @snickler for this.
• Enabled compatibility with VS17.3 and later, for C++23. Thanks @LNKLEO for this.

Superior Paste

• Added media transcoding help to transform completely different video and audio file codecs, improved UI layouts, refined clipboard dealing with, and built-in Semantic Kernel for smarter pasting. Thanks @snickler to your assist!

FancyZones

• Mounted accessibility by bettering the textual content for screens, guaranteeing clearer naming and assist textual content for display screen readers.

Picture Resizer

• Mounted points with Width and Peak fields in Picture Resizer’s Customized preset, guaranteeing empty values now not trigger errors, settings save accurately, and auto-scaling behaves as anticipated. Thanks @daverayment!

• Mounted accessibility by guaranteeing display screen readers announce chosen picture dimensions within the combo-box for higher navigation.

Monaco Preview

• Mounted open hyperlink in default browser moderately than Microsoft Edge. Thanks @OldUser101!

Mouse Highlighter

• Mounted a spotlight launched on an Administrator window will begin fading, as a substitute of staying on the display screen indefinitely till the mouse button is pressed once more on an unelevated window.

Mouse With out Borders

• Mounted a difficulty in service mode the place copy-paste and drag-drop file transfers didn’t work, guaranteeing seamless file operations.
• Enabled GPO for allow/disable for Mouse With out Borders in Service Mode. Thanks @htcfreek for evaluation and feedback!
• Mounted code maintainability by refactoring the outsized ‘Widespread’ class in Mouse With out Borders into smaller, targeted lessons for higher construction and readability. Thanks @mikeclayton and thanks @htcfreek for evaluation!

PowerRename

• Supported unfavourable worth as Begin worth in common expression, e.g. ${begin=-1314}
• Enhanced RegEx assist by including $, ^, quantifiers, and customary patterns for higher usability. Thanks @PesBandi and thanks @htcfreek for evaluation.

PowerToys Run

• Mounted crashes when loading thumbnails after the .NET 9 replace by disabling CETCompat.
• Mounted PowerLauncher.exe blocking different MSI installers creating shortcuts. Thanks @OneBlue!
• Mounted Run’s darkish mode detection to work reliably, stopping points with incorrect theme detection and guaranteeing a smoother consumer expertise. Thanks @daverayment!
• Mounted listing separator dealing with in Calculator, permitting features with a number of arguments to work accurately throughout completely different locales. For instance pow(2;3) would get replaced with pow(2,3). Thanks @PesBandi and thanks @htcfreek for evaluation!
• Mounted angle unit conversions within the PowerToys Run calculator, permitting fast conversions between radians, levels, and gradians. Thanks @OldUser101!

Fast Accent

• Added ǎ, ǒ and ǔ to the IPA character set. Thanks @PesBandi!
• Added ` (backtick) and ~ (tilde) to the VK_OEM_5 character set. Thanks @xanatos!
• Added ς (last sigma) to the Greek character set. Thanks @IamSmeagol!

Settings

• Enabled GPO for the “run at startup” setting. Thanks @htcfreek for evaluation and feedback!
• Mounted accessibility difficulty by permitting display screen readers to announce the group identify for secondary hyperlinks in Settings pages, as a substitute of studying hyperlink descriptions with out context.
• Mounted a difficulty the place the Colour Picker shortcut was not displaying accurately within the Dashboard.

Workspaces

• Mounted if a window was final positioned on a disconnected monitor, it launches minimized and repositions inside the primary monitor’s seen space when restored, as a substitute of remaining off-screen and invisible.
• Mounted on ARM64 to accurately show icons for packaged apps by resolving path mismatches.

ZoomIt

• Mounted warning C4706 and associated error C2220 throughout construct. Thanks @xanatos!

Documentation

• Mounted runner-ipc.md doc on the damaged hyperlink. Thanks @daverayment!
• Mounted the brand new plugin guidelines by updating the goal framework, eradicating duplicates, and bettering assertion group. Thanks @hlaueriksson!
• Up to date runner documentation to align with the most recent code construction.

Growth

• Stabilized pipeline on ARM64 and forked construct.
• Added fuzz testing for HostUILib, added as a part of pipeline for OneFuzz.
• Mounted and improved UI-Take a look at automation framework, and added new take a look at instances for the FancyZones and Hosts module.
• Optimized Logger perform as AOT appropriate, bettering efficiency by 18%.
• Made Widespread.UI and Setting.UI to be AOT appropriate.

You’ll be able to obtain the replace, model 0.89.0, from its official GitHub repo right here or from the Microsoft Retailer.