GitHub Release: microsoft/PowerToys v0.101.2312.0 (19.08.2026)

This preview release fixes Shortcut Guide activation, preserves transparency in SVG thumbnails, prevents a Screen Ruler settings crash, and updates Window Hopper discovery.

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Highlights

• Shortcut Guide: Made Win+Shift+/ reliably open the full guide independently of Windows-key hold settings and remain visible after Win is released.
• File Explorer: Preserved transparent backgrounds in SVG thumbnails instead of rendering them black.
• Screen Ruler: Migrated legacy measurement-unit settings to prevent Settings from crashing when leaving the Screen Ruler page.
• Window Hopper: Moved the New badges from Shortcut Guide to Window Hopper across Settings and the welcome experience.

Advanced Paste

• Added regression coverage to keep custom actions compatible with OpenAI models that do not support reasoning-effort settings in #49867 by @Sthitadhi1.

File Explorer

• Preserved transparent SVG thumbnail backgrounds and fixed an image-resize resource leak in #49301 by @pedrolamas.

PowerToys Run

• Added PoetSearch to the third-party plugin list for searching classical Chinese poetry in #49946 by @Greyaircraft.

Screen Ruler

• Migrated legacy measurement-unit values to valid settings, preventing Settings from crashing when navigating away from Screen Ruler in #49898.

Shortcut Guide

• Separated regular-hotkey activation from Windows-key hold activation, so Win+Shift+/ reliably opens the full guide and stays visible after Win is released in #50000 by @LegendaryBlair.

Window Hopper

• Moved the New badges from Shortcut Guide to Window Hopper throughout Settings and the welcome experience in #49995.

Development

• Separated common .NET project properties from WinRT-specific settings and made CI validation faster and more robust in #48059 by @daverayment.