PowerToys 0.89.0 freeware

... a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity. Inspired by the Windows 95 era PowerToys project, this reboot provides power users with ways to squeeze more efficiency out of the Windows 10 shell and customize it for individual workflows. ...

Author Microsoft
Released 2025-03-05
Filesize 275.00 MB
Downloads 676
OS Windows 11, Windows 10 64 bit
Installation Instal And Uninstall
Keywords PowerToys, Tweak Windows 10, Windows 10 Shell, Modify Windows Shell, Windows 10, Shell, Customize, Tweak
Users' rating
(31 rating)
PowerToysSystem MaintenanceWindows 11, Windows 10 64 bit
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PowerToys freeware - The Latest User Reviews
PowerToys freeware - The Latest Versions History
0.89.0 Mar 5, 2025 New Release Highlights:
Enhanced Advanced Paste by adding media transcoding support to convert different video and audio file formats! Thanks @snickler for your help!
Fixed crashes when loading thumbnails after the .NET 9 update and resolved PowerLauncher.exe blocking other MSI installers from creating shortcuts!
Fixed accessibility issues across FancyZones, Image Resizer, and Settings to improve screen reader support and clarity!
Enhanced UI automation framework across modules and added new tests to cover manual checks, with more improvements coming!
General:
Fixed an issue where updating PowerToys on Windows 11 did not properly update context menu entries, impacting New+, PowerRename, Image Resizer, and File Locksmith.
Updated .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.
Advanced Paste:
Added media transcoding support to convert different video and audio file formats, improved UI layouts, refined clipboard handling, and integrated Semantic Kernel for smarter pasting. Thanks @snickler for your help!
FancyZones:
Fixed accessibility by improving the text for monitors, ensuring clearer naming and help text for screen readers.
Image Resizer:
Fixed issues with Width and Height fields in Image Resizer's Custom preset, ensuring empty values no longer cause errors, settings save correctly, and auto-scaling behaves as expected. Thanks @daverayment!
Fixed accessibility by ensuring screen readers announce selected image dimensions in the combo-box for better navigation.
Monaco Preview:
Fixed open link in default browser rather than Microsoft Edge. Thanks @OldUser101!
Mouse Highlighter:
Fixed a highlight released on an Administrator window will start fading, instead of staying on the screen indefinitely until the mouse button is pressed again on an unelevated window.
Mouse Without Borders:
Fixed an issue in service mode where copy-paste and drag-drop file transfers didn’t work, ensuring sea
0.88.0 Jan 29, 2025 New Release Highlights:
New utility: ZoomIt - a screen zoom, annotation, and recording tool for technical presentations and demos. This utility from Sysinternals has had its source code released and included in PowerToys. ZoomIt will still continue to be updated and shipped by Sysinternals for users who prefer to have it as a standalone utility outside of PowerToys. Thanks @markrussinovich, @foxmsft and @johnstep for contributing the original code and reviewing the PowerToys integration!
Video Conference Mute has been deprecated and was removed from PowerToys.
.Net 9.0.1 fixed many issue in WPF, improving stability for PowerToys Run.
General:
Applied a workaround for the Windows App SDK applications title bar override that was causing accent color to not be shown on the top bar of applications on Windows 10. Thanks @pingzing!
Improved the "admin application running" notification checking logic to be less demanding on resources. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
Fixed an issue causing many utilities to crash when the GPO to disable data diagnostics was applied.
Advanced Paste:
Fixed a crash when the application was exiting. (This was a hotfix for 0.87)
Added a Json format validation step to verify if a conversion to Json should be applied.
Fixed accessibility issues when using a screen reader.
Added support for all BitmapDecoder supported image file types to the Image to Text functionality. Thanks @daverayment!
Fixed an issue causing Advanced Paste initialization errors to hang the PowerToys main process.
FancyZones:
Removed Workspaces Editor from the exclusions list so it can be snapped by FancyZones.
Keyboard Manager:
Added an option to make a shortcut remapping only trigger with exact modifiers.
Monaco Preview:
Added support for .resx and .resw files in Peek and File Explorer add-ons. Thanks @asif4318!
Added a setting to make the code minimap toggle-able in Peek and File Explorer add-ons. Thanks @PesBandi!
Fixed an issue causing Json format preview setting to not be applied
0.87.1 Dec 20, 2024 New Release Highlights:
36391 - Fixed an issue causing PowerToys Run to not have borders on Windows 10.
36417 - Fixed a crash when using the PowerToys Run OneNote plugin caused by the .NET 9 upgrade.
36428 - Fixed a crash when cleaning out Advanced Paste resources on exit.

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