The Text Extractor utility fails to recognize text in some cases on ARM64 devices running Windows 10.Added a warning about deprecating Video Conference Mute in the future (v0.67), please check #21473 for more information.PowerToys ships with Group Policy Objects settings for force disabling and enabling PowerToys utilities in organizations.Thanks 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. Thanks Settings has a new feature for backing up / restoring the settings from a file.

New utility: Hosts File Editor allows you to edit your hosts file in an Editor UI.New utility: File Locksmith allows seeing which processes are currently using the selected files.You can get the latest version of the app by heading to Settings within PowerToys, navigating to the “General” tab and then scrolling down to “Update”.

The idea behind the service is to boost productivity on Windows 10 and Windows 11. Among the popular utilities on the platform as FancyZones and a ColorPicker. The core difference was that the suite is now open source. As always, the release also has its share of improvements and bug fixes.īack in May 2019, Microsoft rebooted its PowerToys, a modern version of the suite of tools that appeared on Windows 95. For example, in Settings there is now the ability to back up or restore settings from within a file.

Microsoft is also adding new features in PowerToys 0.64.0. As for the Host Editor, it provides users to edit host files with a special Editor UI. Starting with File Locksmith, it is a utility that allows users to see which processes are in use when a file is selected. Those new additions are a Host File Editor and a File Locksmith. With this release, Microsoft is adding interesting new utilities that will make PowerToys even more useful. Microsoft is rolling out an update for its PowerToys Windows utilities, bringing the service to version 0.64.0.

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