Microsoft's dev team has just released a new update to PowerToys. The PowerToys 0.56 release cycle focuses "heavily" on stability and improvements, the company says. Some of its highlights include:

Upgrade notes! A big feedback item for new versions was upgrade notes.FancyZones zone limit has been increased to 128 zones. Before the limit was 40.Timezone conversion plugin for PowerToys Run!Child and Popup window support for FancyZones.Find my mouse will now activate via shaking the mouse with a settings change!

Release notes for PowerToys 0.56.1

Always on Top

Fixed excess GPU / CPU usage when enabledIf border has focus, not closable via F4Changing border sizes should resize correctly for existing windowsBorder goes away with Outlook modal windows

ColorPicker

No longer crashes during theme change

FancyZones

Increased zone limit from 40 to 128.Child and Popup window support for FancyZones. To enable, go to Settings→FancyZones→Windows. These were bugs we fixed that without realizing it was a useful feature to most.

File explorer

Fixes for Dev file preview:Fix fix for object reference not set.Fix for encoding UTF-8.Fix for file is in use.Fix for saying the file is too big.

Image Resizer

Fix forinvalid operationerror.@CleanCodeDeveloper!

Mouse utility

Find my mouse will now activate via shaking the mouse with a settings change!Find my mouse now can excludes apps.Fix for crosshair thickness looking odd due to anti-aliasingFix for a hard crash on crosshair (This was a hotfix for 0.55)

PowerRename

Will not spells check file names anymore.Autocomplete result box to not obscure apply button.Regex fix

PowerToys Run

Timezone conversion plugin for PowerToys Run!Hexadecimal and binary numbers now are supported in the calculator plugin.Terminal plugin performance boost.Terminal will now be found via the Program plugin again.Shutdown command is now using hybrid fast argument for shutting downSupport for VSCodium with VS Code workplace plugin.

Video conference mute

nVidia Broadcast software won't crash anymore

Settings

Upgrade notes in OOBEFix for settings being lost (This was a hotfix for 0.55)UX improvements.

Installer

Believe we have a fix for the long hated "app.dark.png is missing" error.Installer will launch PowerToys under appropriate elevation versus Admin only due to UAC prompt for installation (This was a hotfix for 0.55)PowerToys will now start if installed under different user

Development

ARM64 - We removed the last .NET Framework dependency..NET 6 upgrade, now on the newest and hottest .NET runtimeCode analyzers have been upgraded!Symbols are back!Code refactoring.We are now on VS 2022 with the .NET 6 upgrade.

For more details and downloads, head over to GitHub.

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