New Microsoft PowerToys pre-release version 0.101.2781.0 for Windows 11

Highlights​

• FancyZones: Added opt-in mouse-wheel layout switching during window dragging and a customizable layout-name indicator.
• Command Palette: Expanded the optional Quick Access Shelf with recent commands, drag-and-drop organization, and context menus.
• Command Palette: Added numbered keyboard shortcuts to list pages and selection shortcuts to shelf items.
• Command Palette: Added fuzzy Settings search across options, extensions, commands, aliases, and shortcuts.
• Command Palette Dock: Changed the focus shortcut to cycle Dock items, including across monitors; use Esc or Alt+Tab to leave.
• Command Palette: Improved Copilot key activation and prevented the palette reopening after app launch.
• Command Palette: Added experimental in-place Adaptive Card updates and fixed custom inputs in NativeAOT builds.
• Command Palette: Added theme-aware SVG icons, shared Shell icon loading, and fixes for recycled app icons.
• Mouse Utilities: Restored Auto Hide Cursor recovery on affected touchpads.
• Shortcut Guide: Added Ableton Live shortcuts and more resilient shortcut-index generation.

General​

• Fixed broken section links in the Keyboard Manager developer documentation in #50520 by @QIU-Guanzong

Command Palette​

• Added optional recent commands on Home and the Quick Access Shelf, with configurable limits and visual separation from pinned commands in #49916 by @jiripolasek
• Enabled drag-and-drop reordering of pinned shelf items, promotion of recent items to pinned, and removal through dedicated drop targets in #49932 by @jiripolasek
• Added shelf-item context menus and standard actions such as Ctrl+Enter for the secondary command and Ctrl+K for the menu in #49933 by @jiripolasek
• Added Alt+Shift+1 through Alt+Shift+9 to select shelf items without running them in #49943 by @jiripolasek
• Added numbered Alt+1 through Alt+9 shortcuts to list pages, with configurable activation or selection and Shift-modified selection in #49947 by @jiripolasek
• Polished shelf and search-box context menus and reorganized related settings; the Quick Access Shelf remains disabled by default in #49988 by @jiripolasek
• Added SVG icon protocols for files and inline data, with optional light/dark theme and accent substitution in #50191 by @jiripolasek
• Shared Shell icons by identity to avoid repeated extraction and showed file-type previews while exact icons load in #50192 by @jiripolasek
• Introduced experimental in-place Adaptive Card updates to reduce graph flicker and retain input and focus for supported changes in #50211
• Prevented initialization from reattaching extension item handlers after cleanup, reducing subscription races and retained callbacks in #50487 by @jiripolasek
• Cleaned up discarded pages without breaking Back navigation or allowing inactive pages to update shared UI in #50501 by @jiripolasek
• Shortened Performance Monitor GPU Dock subtitles while distinguishing multiple adapters and retaining full model names in details in #50526 by @jiripolasek
• Changed the Dock focus shortcut to cycle items across visible Docks, with reverse cycling and configurable monitor/focus preferences. Repeated presses no longer return to the previous window; use Esc or Alt+Tab to leave the Dock in #50865 by @jiripolasek
• Added notices when per-monitor Dock settings override global enablement or position, with links to manage those overrides in #50868 by @jiripolasek
• Added fast-path Copilot key and Win+C activation for a running palette, with visibility toggling and improved Dock-anchored positioning in #50872 by @jiripolasek
• Fixed language mapping in NativeAOT builds so a selected language no longer unexpectedly falls back to English in #50889 by @jiripolasek
• Fixed clipboard-format registration and memory-handle management in extension helpers for more reliable clipboard operations in #50893 by @jiripolasek
• Added fuzzy search to Settings for options, extensions, commands, aliases, and keyboard shortcuts in #50894 by @jiripolasek
• Standardized Ctrl+Shift+Enter for administrator actions in Run, Windows Terminal, and PowerToys commands, and added supported administrator actions to Bookmarks and Indexer in #50935 by @jiripolasek
• Kept refreshed first results selected on dynamic subpages while preserving later user selections and avoiding selection jumps during Load more in #50938 by @jiripolasek
• Fixed blank or fallback app icons when stale unload notifications race with visible recycled list rows in #50988 by @jiripolasek
• Prevented delayed search focus from reopening the palette after launching an app, while retaining focus restoration when the palette is shown in #50994 by @jiripolasek
• Restricted double-click activation to the actual clicked list or grid result, ignoring empty space and structural rows and respecting single-click mode in #50996 by @jiripolasek
• Restored custom file-path and list Adaptive Card inputs in NativeAOT builds by generating the required collection marshalling in #50997 by @jiripolasek

FancyZones​

• Added opt-in mouse-wheel layout switching while dragging with zones visible, plus a customizable layout-name indicator. Wheel switching is disabled by default in #49291 by @TyrantRey

Mouse Utilities​

• Restored Auto Hide Cursor recovery on affected touchpads by treating injected mouse events like physical mouse input in #50803 by @AkazaRenn

Shortcut Guide​

• Added Ableton Live 9-12 shortcut coverage and support for manifests matching multiple executable names in #50100 by @sundeep8967 and @MuyuanMS
• Made index generation tolerate malformed or inaccessible manifests and skip invalid entries rather than corrupting the shortcut index in #50497 by @daverayment

Development​

• Added missing third-party attribution for the WiX bootstrapper application APIs used by the installer in #50747
• Fixed UI-test signing selection for Image Resizer, File Locksmith, and Screen Ruler so their Settings changes reach the Runner during CI in #50891
• Updated the Azure login action from 3.0.1 to 3.0.2 in the Microsoft Store submission workflow in #50377 by @dependabot
• Updated GitHub Agentic Workflows setup from 0.87.10 to 0.88.4 in issue-triage automation in #50514 by @dependabot
• Prevented intermittent sample-extension Release trimming failures by omitting PDBs from the trimmed output in #50917
• Corrected Quick Access Shelf test-fixture initialization to match normal object construction in #50921 by @jiripolasek
• Stabilized shortcut-navigation tests by running setup, assertions, and cleanup on the same scheduler as view-model notifications in #50923 by @jiripolasek
• Made Settings transport and serialization collections initialization-only while preserving existing JSON and hotkey-conflict payloads in #50727 by @matthudson

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