New Microsoft PowerToys version v0.64.0 for Windows 10 and Windows 11

Brink · Nov 2, 2022

In the v0.64 release cycle, we focused on releasing new features and improvements.

Installer Hashes
x64 Installer Hash
5BAFC1EF4683F83C16D0FCE6BA11F97A9B6E9C12732B07FF8480F2D47F72C44E

ARM64 Installer Hash
D3F225D00A748E94A5BC09C21CE6ED3A1B1F0DC5E1D6FE1870F82A0154B0772C

Highlights

New utility: File Locksmith allows seeing which processes are currently using the selected files.

New utility: Hosts File Editor allows you to edit your hosts file in an Editor UI. Thanks @davidegiacometti!

Settings has a new feature for backing up / restoring the settings from a file. Thanks @jefflord!

FancyZones allows you to set defaults for horizontal/vertical screens to get better intended behavior for new screens and cases where a monitor ID resets.

PowerToys ships with Group Policy Objects settings for force disabling and enabling PowerToys utilities in organizations. Check the GPO docs for more details.

Added a warning about deprecating Video Conference Mute in the future (v0.67), please check #21473 for more information.

Known issues

The Text Extractor utility fails to recognize text in some cases on ARM64 devices running Windows 10.

After installing PowerToys, the new Windows 11 context menu entries for PowerRename and Image Resizer might not appear before a system restart.

There are reports of users who are unable to open the Settings window. This is being caused by incompatibilities with some applications (RTSS RivaTuner Statistics Server is a known examples of this). If you're affected by this, please check the linked issue to verify if any of the presented solutions works for you.

Always on Top

Detect and put a window on top again if it's no longer on top.

Color Picker

Added the hexadecimal integer format. Thanks @marius-bughiu!

FancyZones

Added a way for users to configure default layouts for horizontal and vertical screens.

Replaced remaning Number Boxes in FancyZones Editor with Sliders, to improve accessibility for screen readers.

Fixed an issue breaking window switching shortcuts.

File Locksmith

Added a new utility: File Locksmith.

Thanks @niels9001 for the design on the UI!

Group Policy Objects

Group Policy Objects settings for force disabling and enabling PowerToys utilities.

Thanks @htcfreek for your help in reviewing to make sure the shipped settings conform to system administrators expectations!

Hosts File Editor

Added a new utility: Hosts File Editor. Thanks @davidegiacometti!

Thanks @niels9001 for the design help on the UI!

Thanks @davidegiacometti for fixing the bugs found and adding features up until release!

Thanks @AtariDreams for consolidating the packages comparing to the rest of the project!

Thanks @htcfreek for adding a scrollviewer to the entry editor!

Keyboard Manager

Fixed a delay that was not being cancelled properly. Thanks @AtariDreams!

Mouse Utilities

Changed the opacity setting to the 1-100 range. Thanks @davidegiacometti!

PowerToys Run

Changed image loading to release the images in PowerToys Run main executable. This is a try to fix the "app.dark.png" missing issues received after a PowerToys update.

Fixed the PowerToys Run hiding after the default action failed. Thanks @hlaueriksson!

Fixed the PowerToys Run allows showing after a context menu action succeeded. Thanks @hlaueriksson!

Quick Accent

Corrected "Dutch" word to "German". Thanks @damienleroy!

Added the Portuguese language accents. Thanks @pcanavar!

Fixed positioning of toolbar on scaled desktops.

Screen Ruler

Improved the acrylic brush used in the menu. Thanks @niels9001!

Settings

Added a feature to backup/restore settings to/from a file. Thanks @jefflord!

Fixed an issue causing shortcuts shown in OOBE not updating to new values when the window was re-opened.

Fixed the "Documents" folder usage in the backup/restore feature. Thanks @davidegiacometti!

Text Extractor

Added a warning about how to install languages for OCR recognition.

Fixed the overlay not focusing after the first activation.

Added spaces between CJK and non-CKJ words. Thanks @maggch97!

Video Conference Mute

Added a setting to hide the Video Conference Mute overlay when muted. Thanks @akabhirav!

Added a warning about deprecating Video Conference Mute in the future (v0.67), please check #21473 for more information.

Installer

Added some missing files that were causing Settings and PowerRename to not function correctly on some configurations.

Updated the .NET dependency to 6.0.10.

Development

Consolidated nuget packages and removed a few unused packages.

Updated the Windows.CppRT to the latest version. Thanks @AtariDreams!

Removed the cxxopts dependency, which was no longer used. Thanks @AtariDreams!

Updated the cziplob dependency to 0.25. Thanks @AtariDreams!

Updated the System.IO.Abstractions dependency. Thanks @davidegiacometti!

Turned on C++ code analysis and incrementally fixing warnings.

Added the install method to the issue template on GitHub, since some issues seem to be related to specific installation methods.

Automated installer hash creation in the release CI.

Simplified use of .First() on ImageResizer. Thanks @AtariDreams!

Improved and clarified the issues templates. Thanks @Jay-o-Way!

Fixed a PTRun unit test to be more compatible with .NET 6. Thanks @AtariDreams!

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