PowerToys Windows



Microsoft has released PowerToys update v0.20 with a few new features along with a heavy focus on stability / quality fixes.

The three new and important features include Shortcut to key/key to shortcut for KBM remapping, a system wide Color picker, and SVG File explorer icon rendering.

Release notes:

  • Martin Chrzan’s Color Picker was added in! With a quick Win+Shift+C, get the color from your screen
  • File Explorer – Can now render SVG icons thanks to Chris Davis
  • FancyZones – you can now snap to any number of zones in FancyZones holding Shift+Ctrl while dragging a window
  • PT Run – keyboard interaction improvements
  • PT Run – freshly installed apps are now being detected
  • PT Run – Lots of perf and bug fixes
  • Keyboard manager – app level shortcuts
    • Example: For Outlook, Remap Ctrl+F to F4 and now Ctrl+F will put up the find window 🙂
  • Keyboard manager – Now can remap key to shortcut and shortcut to key.
  • Settings – Now has improved OOBE based on the work the Microsoft Garage Interns did during their hackathon
  • PowerRename improvements


Download v0.20 from GitHub

Source: Twitter