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This preview improves large remapping and grid workflows, makes Peek folder scans more informative, and fixes recording, window-management, and remote-file issues.
Highlights
- Keyboard Manager: Added search, filtering, multi-selection, and bulk deletion for large remapping lists.
- Command Palette: Virtualized grid and gallery views for better performance and improved keyboard navigation.
- Peek: Added live file and folder counts, scanning status, partial-result reporting, and more efficient folder enumeration.
- ZoomIt: Fixed silent recording audio when the default audio endpoint uses a multichannel processing format.
Command Palette
- Fixed installed-state detection for Store-only extensions by adding a Store ID lookup fallback in #48746 by @namdpran8.
- Added optional calendar week and ISO week-date display modes to the Clock dock band in #49093 by @MarcelSchm.
- Virtualized grid and gallery views, improved keyboard navigation, and fixed teardown-related back-navigation crashes in #50233 by @jiripolasek.
Crop And Lock
- Fixed crop alignment and clipping, especially with display scaling, by using GDI-compatible window bounds in #49736 by @langningchen.
FancyZones
- Fixed the first window drag after RDP, wake, or unlock incorrectly behaving as if Shift were held in #49926 by @Comma8.
Keyboard Manager
- Added real-time search, modifier and app filters, multi-selection, and bulk deletion to remapping lists in #49287 by @MasaYan24.
Mouse Without Borders
- Created received files in the logged-on user's context so ownership and inherited permissions match the destination folder in #48769.
Peek
- Improved folder previews with live file and subfolder counts, scan status, partial-result error reporting, and lower allocation usage in #50213 by @daverayment.
ZoomIt
- Fixed silent recording audio on multichannel audio endpoints and aligned the recording options layout in #49400 by @markrussinovich.
General
- Fixed WebView2 preview and thumbnail handler launches from folders with restrictive AppContainer ACLs in #48602 by @mansiverma897993.
- Fixed caption button glyph colors after theme changes across PowerToys title bars in #49786 by @jiripolasek.
Development
- Updated the github/gh-aw-actions/setup dependency to v0.87.2 in #50201.
- Added 22 end-to-end Quick Accent UI tests and fixed shutdown and test-signing races in #50289.
- Restored AI issue triage by aligning gh-aw compiler and runtime versions and disabling failure-report issue creation in #50320.
- Centralized reusable DWM cloak, visible-frame, and monitor APIs for UITestAutomation.Next in #50343.
Source:
Release Preview v0.101.2453.0 · microsoft/PowerToys
PowerToys v0.101.2453.0 Preview This preview improves large remapping and grid workflows, makes Peek folder scans more informative, and fixes recording, window-management, and remote-file issues. I...
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