New PowerToys update is now available with some changes around mouse utilities, including additional settings for Find My Mouse. The new version also brings "Always on Top" that will help you make any window you want to be the topmost.

Complete changelog of PowerToys v0.51.0

Things to note

We shifted our localization internal service and are working on adding automated integrations back in.

PowerToys Awake

System tray and settings use same language for turning things on.

Color Picker

New formats added to copy colors as a float or decimal value.Adjust color window now accepts lower-case HEX codes.

FancyZones

New window switching functionality! Now users can assign multiple windows to a zone and cycle between them using theWin+PgDn/PgUp commands by default.Added functionality for zones to adopt system accent color and theme.Added visual preview of zone appearance in settings menu.Fixed bug where FancyZones crashes on launch.

Image Resizer

Fixed bug where resizing images creates empty folders.Added option to remove non-essential metadata. Helps significantly reduce the size of files.Fixed bug caused by Image Resizer receiving an unexpected property type or value.

Mouse utilities

Find My Mouse: Improved functionality to activate when user double click time configuration is set above 100ms.Find My Mouse: Fixed display on all virtual desktops as opposed to only the virtual desktop where it was created.Find My Mouse: New settings to enable a lot more customization based on your feedback.Minor UI tweaks for fluent icons, appearance,Ctrlusage, and utility descriptions.New Mouse Highlighter PowerToy! When enabled, activate mouse highlighting withWin+Shift+Hby default to begin displaying visual cues on your display when either the left or right mouse buttons are clicked. There is a much more powerful tool calledSysInternal ZoomItthat is very helpful as well.

PowerRename

Improved rename performance! This is now at parity (or better) with the prior version based on multiple tests.Added keyboard accelerators withEnterandCtrl+Enter to execute rename.UI tweaks to now add number of items selected, grid-lines for improved readability, reduced font sizes & margins, and improved window resizing.Fixed UI focus issues.Added default window width and height.Added PowerRename event logging for BugReportTool

PowerToys Run

New entries added for settings plugin.Added support for application URI handling likemailto:andms-settings:.Added DevContainer workspaces to search results of the VSCode Workspaces Plugin.Fixes for crashing issues.

Shortcut Guide

Added rounded corners to keys and tooltips, and system accent colors for desktop backdrop.

Settings

Fixed default settings window size to prevent it from opening offscreen.

Video Conference Mute

Minor UI tweaks for icon, clear button, and overlay image selection#14248.

Prototype work

Always on top prototype of being actively worked on. Right now you hit a key-combo and it enables it. We are investigating ways to highlight the window in some form as well.

Installer

Investigated how to fully shift to WIX bootstrapper and remove custom boot strapperInvestigated how to fully shift to HKCU vs HKLM.

Random helping out

Spell check fixFix a URL

Development relevant

Focusing on cleaning up backlog of issues and developing a method to aid in prioritizing.@Dendand@crutkasare partnering to see if we can develop one signal to see what we are calling'centers of gravity'.Our primary dev branch is now namedMain.Adjusting plugin folder structure for PT Run#10796Working on shifting our release pipeline onto same system that Windows Terminal uses.Improvements to environment variable usage/update process in PT Run.Update .NET to 3.1.20.Centralized process list in the BugReportTool.Registry handling improvement for MSI and File Explorer add-ons.

For more details, head over to GitHub.