As promised earlier in the month, Microsoft has today released the newest version of PowerToys, its Windows 95-era system utilities. The development team said that today's PowerToys 0.25 release cycle focuses"on stability, localization and quality of life improvements for both the development team and our end users."

Some of the highlights of PowerToys 0.25 include

General

First pass on localization complete. 17 different languages. We know there will be some rough areas, pleasemake us aware so we can correct them.Logging added into the installerLarge sums of accessibility issues fixed.Less notifications for installingFxCop work is almost fully wrapped up

Color Picker

Additional color style selections such as CYMK and HSL

FancyZones

Multiple bugs fixedBetter zone drawing improvements

Keyboard manager

Fixed terminal input map failureBetter app compatMultiple bug fixesAbility to directly disable keys/shortcuts

PowerToys Run

expanded environment var searching such as %windr%multiple crash bug fixesImprovements on calculator pluginDirectly able to override themingWindows will open to what shell you wantBetter action key support=for direct calculator?for direct file searching.for direct for applications//for direct URL<for running processes>for shell processes

Dev docs

Added multiple developer related docs.

For complete release notes, head over to GitHub.

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