Microsoft has today released the latest PowerToys update with version 0.92. The new release adds a new toggle such that users will be able to easily add the app to the system tray. The update also improves performance for Command Palette with better ahead-of-time (AoT) compilation optimization as Microsoft notes "compatibility for all first-party extensions, improved extensibility, and core UX fixes" which should lead to "better performance and stability across commands."
Speaking of performance, .NET libraries have also been updated to version 9.0.6 for achieving improvements in this regard. WinAppSDK has also been updated to version 1.7.2 with promise for better stability.
The new PowerToys Run release also gets a Speed Test based on Ookla's Speedtest CLI, something which we had learned earlier.
The major highlights of the release are given below:
• PowerToys settings now has a toggle for the system tray icon, giving users control over its visibility based on personal preference.
• Command Palette now has Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compatibility for all first-party extensions, improved extensibility, and core UX fixes, resulting in better performance and stability across commands.
• Color Picker now has customizable mouse button actions, enabling more personalized workflows by assigning functions to left, right, and middle clicks.
• Bug Report Tool now has a faster and clearer reporting process, with progress indicators, improved compression, auto-cleanup of old trace logs, and inclusion of MSIX installer logs for more efficient diagnostics.
• File Explorer add-ons now have improved rendering stability, resolving issues with PDF previews, blank thumbnails, and text file crashes during file browsing.
Command Palette• Enhanced performance by resolving a regression in page loading.
• Applied consistent hotkey handling across all Command Palette commands for a smoother user experience.
• Improved graceful closing of Command Palette.
• Fixed consistency issue for extensions' alias with "Direct" setting and enabled localization for "Direct" and "Indirect" for better user understanding.
• Improved visual clarity by styling critical context items correctly.
• Automatically focused the field when only one is present on the content page.
• Improved stability and efficiency when loading file icons in SDK ThumbnailHelper.cs by removing unnecessary operations.
Command Palette Extensions• Fixed outdated results in the Time & Date extension.
• Fixed an issue where Web Search always opened Microsoft Edge instead of the user's default browser on Windows 11 24H2 and later.
• Added "Restart Windows Explorer" command to the Windows System Commands provider for gracefully terminate and relaunch explorer.exe.
To download the update, head over to the official
GitHub repo for Microsoft PowerToys where you can also view the full changelog.
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