GitHub Release: microsoft/PowerToys v0.101.2362.0 (25.08.2026)

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🪟 Meet Window Hopper

If you regularly have several windows open from the same app, switching between them is now much faster. Window Hopper works like Alt + Tab, but stays within the app you're currently using. Once the utility is enabled, press the configurable Alt + backtick shortcut to cycle through that app's windows without stepping through everything else on your desktop. It is especially useful when you're juggling multiple browser windows, terminals, File Explorer windows, or editor instances.

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Compact mode is only one part of this Command Palette update:

• Search and responsiveness: Better ranking, cached Window Walker results, and progressive icon loading make results feel faster and more predictable.


• Reliability: Improved backdrop switching, icon loading, dock cleanup, and extension-resource management make prolonged use more stable.


• Dock improvements: Auto-hide reclaims screen space, while the dock clock and an optional bell provide quick access to Notification Center.


• Richer notifications: Extensions can show toasts with configurable positions, icons, and action buttons.


• Performance Monitor: New disk activity metrics and clearer network bands make it easier to keep an eye on system performance.


• Extension Gallery: Deep links can open the gallery or take you directly to a specific extension's installation page.


• Windows Update commands: Update and restart and Update and shut down appear when Windows is waiting for a reboot.

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🔄 Quick Accent and Mouse Jump move to WinUI 3

We're continuing to modernize PowerToys utilities with WinUI 3, and this release brings refreshed foundations to Quick Accent and Mouse Jump. Quick Accent keeps its familiar character picker while gaining better theming, accessibility, and DPI-aware placement. It also adds an optional Press and hold the letter activation mode: choose it in Quick Accent Settings, configure the hold duration, then hold an accent-capable letter to open the picker. Use the arrow keys or Space to select a character and release the letter to insert it. A quick tap still types the original letter, and normal Ctrl, Alt, AltGr, and Windows-key shortcuts remain unaffected.

Mouse Jump now uses a WinUI 3 interface with improved multi-monitor and mixed-DPI behavior. Invoke Mouse Jump with your configured shortcut, then click the destination in the preview or use the number keys, Home and End, or the arrow keys to select a monitor from the keyboard. Smaller improvements across the two utilities include more reliable Quick Accent activation, better first-frame rendering, expanded language, currency, punctuation, and IPA character sets, plus updated Mouse Jump layout and release support for both x64 and ARM64.

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PowerDisplay can now wake supported monitors by selecting On from the display's power-state control, and a new command-line interface lets you inspect displays, change monitor settings, and apply saved profiles from scripts. This release also improves built-in panel detection on hybrid-GPU systems, makes Maximum compatibility mode more resilient with unreliable monitors, preserves recent setting changes during exit, restores saved brightness, contrast, volume, and color temperature more reliably, and cleans up monitor and tray resources more consistently.

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📋 Advanced Paste brings local AI to custom actions

Advanced Paste now supports on-device transformations with Phi Silica on supported Windows devices, so you can use local AI without configuring a cloud endpoint or API key. In Advanced Paste Settings, check Phi Silica availability and download the model when prompted. You can then choose Phi Silica as the provider for an action, customize its prompt and coaching behavior, and assign a shortcut for quick access. Provider selection, prompts, and shortcuts can all be configured per action, making it easier to mix local and online models for different clipboard workflows.

⌨️ Shortcut Guide adds Windows-key activation and search

Shortcut Guide can now respond when you hold the Windows key. In Settings, choose whether this shows taskbar indicators, opens the full guide, or remains disabled. You can also configure the hold duration and whether the full guide closes when you release the key, while keeping the regular activation shortcut independent.

Shortcut Guide now includes page-local search across shortcut names, descriptions, modifiers, and displayed keys. This makes it much faster to find one command without scanning an entire app's shortcut list.

for the Windows-key activation options and continued Shortcut Guide improvements!

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ZoomIt also adds webcam background blur, microphone noise cancellation, and brightness controls for recording; WebP and JPEG screenshot and panorama formats; independently configurable Snip Save and Panorama Save shortcuts; and more capable recording, trimming, and automatic snip-copying workflows.

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🖱️ Mouse Highlighter gets composition-powered ripple effects

Mouse Highlighter now includes a Ripple mode with smooth, composition-based effects for mouse clicks. In Settings > Mouse Utilities > Mouse Highlighter, select Ripple and customize its size, intensity, duration, drag trail, and release pulse. Left and right clicks now use green and blue by default, while existing color preferences are preserved.

Ripple rendering, animation, timers, and window ordering now run separately from the low-level mouse hook. This keeps clicks responsive and prevents lost button-up events, stuck ripples, and pressed states during longer sessions.

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🧩 Other notable changes

• FancyZones: Custom layout spacing, sensitivity, and zone-count edits now apply immediately, and a new opt-in window rotation mode can move eligible windows left or right across connected displays.


• Keyboard Manager: Fixed startup and elevated file-picker issues in the new editor, improved Alt and AltGr remapping reliability, and standardized modifier labels as Win, Ctrl, Alt, and Shift.


• Peek: Added structured Unreal Engine project and plugin previews, optional always-on-top and taskbar visibility settings, restored .tar.gz and .tgz previews, and improved shortcut and shutdown reliability.


• PowerToys Run: Prevented stale searches from accumulating worker threads and restored recent VS Code workspace discovery, including UNC paths.


• File Explorer Add-ons: Added policy-controllable Markdown previews for validated relative, local, and UNC image paths, refreshed the Monaco editor, and preserved transparency in SVG thumbnails.


• Image Resizer: Moved preset editing into a modern save-or-cancel dialog, clarified preset descriptions, improved File Explorer integration, and strengthened the public CLI's validation and diagnostics.


• New+: Improved template renaming and now places new desktop items near the context-menu pointer with per-monitor DPI awareness.


• Mouse Without Borders: Improved connections between computers with fresh encryption parameters and stronger session-key derivation while preserving existing pairing settings after every computer is updated.


• Always On Top and Grab and Move: Improved shutdown and sign-out reliability, prevented potential border-update crashes, and made full-opacity Always On Top borders render consistently.


• Color Picker: Kept the picker out of its own zoomed preview and improved sampling reliability on displays that report default refresh-rate values.

✨ Big thanks to the community

As always, a big thank-you to everyone who contributed — we couldn't do this release without you! Thanks , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and to jump in.

🔗 Useful links

• Added an Advanced Paste setting to hide the AI paste section, giving users a cleaner window when they do not need AI features in , with regression coverage added in

Window Hopper

• Added Window Hopper for quickly switching among windows from the current application with a configurable Alt+backtick shortcut in


• Fixed Always On Top borders looking mottled at full opacity, producing a consistently solid frame with the configured shape and thickness in

Color Picker

• Fixed the picker window appearing inside the zoomed preview, keeping sampled content unobstructed in


• Fixed Color Picker sampling on displays reporting default refresh-rate sentinel values, retaining the 60 Hz fallback instead of producing invalid or one-second timer intervals in by by by


• Added dock auto-hide, reclaiming screen space until the pointer reaches the dock edge in by by by by by by by by by


• Added animated acrylic notifications, delivering smoother and more polished transient messages in


• Added Enter-key submission for single-line Adaptive Card forms, improving keyboard-only workflows in


• Fixed the hidden compact-mode window frame reappearing after focus changes in by by by


• Fixed confirmation dialogs being clipped or hidden in compact mode by expanding the palette while dialogs are open in by by by by


• Fixed empty icon scaling, preventing crashes when an icon fails to provide dimensions in


• Fixed Settings breadcrumbs in non-English languages, restoring reliable navigation in


• Improved search ranking tiers, consistently placing exact, prefix, and acronym matches above weaker results in by by by by by by by


• Fixed pinned bookmark bands after restart, preserving dock customizations through transient loading failures in


• Fixed multi-GPU cycling in Performance Monitor, showing metrics and names for the active GPU in


• Fixed performance widgets showing ??? after restart, refreshing values when data becomes available in


• Prevented duplicate settings history entries, making Back navigation more predictable in


• Prevented repeated shortcut-dialog requests from crashing Command Palette or Settings in


• Limited expanded compact mode to the current monitor, keeping the palette fully on-screen after display changes in


• Improved icon loading responsiveness and allowed failed or interrupted loads to retry in


• Reduced UI stalls during concurrent icon updates by removing broad icon-cache locking in


• Reduced unnecessary Performance Monitor refresh work while disk metrics update in


• Improved cleanup when commands and parameter lists are replaced or fail to initialize, reducing retained extension resources in


• Improved cleanup of extension objects after navigating away from list pages in


• Improved cleanup when top-level commands, dock bands, or providers are removed, reloaded, or disabled in


• Fixed SDK command subscriptions remaining attached after replacement, allowing extension objects to be released in


• Reduced unnecessary work after settings changes, avoiding unrelated hotkey, backdrop, and dock recreation in


• Corrected Alt+F4 handling, keeping docks open and adding control over whether the main palette quits in by


• Refactored transient overlays into reusable animated surfaces, preserving polished notifications and enabling consistent future experiences in and


• Restored the previous Performance Monitor widget refresh behavior after restart to avoid regressions in


• Recognized Origin, Ubisoft Connect, and Xbox internet shortcuts as launchable apps in


• Removed the separator below the search bar when compact mode is collapsed in


• Simplified the file picker button label to “Select file” in


• Stretched expanded palette content vertically, filling the available window instead of shrinking to content in


• Deduplicated Windows Settings by title and destination, retaining distinct settings while removing true duplicates in


• Preserved manual result scrolling and selection while more items load, preventing snap-back interruptions in


• Disabled compact mode by default, opening Command Palette in its full expanded experience in


• Removed Uninstall actions from protected Windows apps, avoiding unusable commands in


• Expanded Command Palette's Windows Settings search with localized Control Panel tasks, making tools such as Game Controllers, File History, and Performance Options easy to find and launch in and


• Fixed dock band activation and cleanup races, reducing the chance of bands becoming stuck during rebuilds in


• Simplified Command Palette settings with clearer General and Personalization sections and removed obsolete extension-discovery UI in by


• Reduced retained resources during dock refreshes by reusing item view models, coalescing refreshes, and cleaning replaced views in


• Ranked global fallback commands by live title and subtitle matches, allowing exact fallbacks to appear with similarly relevant results in by


• Centralized profile and variable validation, preventing invalid registry writes and improving error guidance in

FancyZones

• Prevented shutdown and reconfiguration races, improving stability during display changes, dragging, and exit in by by by


• Aligned the File Explorer Add-ons page and navigation titles for a consistent Settings experience in by by by by

Grab and Move

• Anchored restored maximized windows to the original grab point for more predictable dragging in


• Refined Grab and Move overlays to hug visible window frames with a warning-gold outline and reduced the default Always On Top border to 4 pixels for cleaner visuals in


• Allowed modifier-clicks without dragging to reach the target application while retaining window move and resize gestures in

Image Resizer

• Added complete MSIX logo sets for File Locksmith, Image Resizer, and PowerRename so their context-menu icons display correctly across Windows surfaces in


• Clarified Image Resizer preset descriptions with a consistent mode-and-dimensions format across the resize dialog and Settings in


• Made the public Image Resizer CLI validate options, files, and dimensions strictly, deduplicate equivalent inputs, and report actionable diagnostics in


• Fixed the Keyboard Manager editor's program and folder browse dialogs failing to open when PowerToys is running as administrator in


• Fixed modifier-to-regular-key remaps being treated as system shortcuts so mappings such as Left Alt to Backspace perform the intended action in


• Fixed Ctrl remaining stuck after AltGr was pressed without activating a remapped shortcut, restoring reliable keyboard input in


• Standardized shortcut modifier display as Win, Ctrl, Alt, and Shift regardless of press order for easier recognition in

Mouse Highlighter

• Added customizable ripple effects for mouse clicks, making click activity easier to see in


• Updated default left- and right-click highlights to green and blue while preserving existing user preferences in by


• Updated release signing for the new Mouse Jump binaries so x64 and ARM64 builds complete successfully in

Mouse Utilities

• Clarified the Gliding Cursor description so users understand that its keyboard shortcut positions the pointer and performs a click in


• Improved connections between Mouse Without Borders computers while preserving existing pairing settings after every computer is updated, using fresh encryption parameters in

New+

• Corrected French localization guidance so New+ appears as “Nouveau+” instead of the inaccurate “Nouveauté+” in by by by by


• Fixed Peek’s close and navigation shortcuts after focus moves into web or native preview content in


• Fixed system media controls so Peek appears only for media previews and disappears after switching files or closing in and by by by


• Added stable profile IDs so duplicate names and renames retain reliable PowerDisplay and Light Switch references in


• Added a PowerDisplay setting for choosing how much brightness, contrast, and volume sliders change per mouse-wheel notch in


• Fixed built-in laptop panel detection when a discrete GPU drives the display, restoring brightness control on hybrid-GPU systems in


• Prevented recent PowerDisplay setting changes from being lost during exit by coordinating and atomically publishing monitor-state saves in


• Fixed tray-menu exit cleanup so PowerDisplay removes its icon immediately and restarts cleanly in


• Prevented monitor-handle resource usage from accumulating when PowerDisplay abandons failed discovery attempts in

PowerToys Run

• Corrected “searchbox” to “search box” in the plugin keyword settings description in


• Updated the DiskAnalyzer plugin listing to its current ValleySoft repository and author, restoring access to the maintained project in


• Fixed stale PowerToys Run queries leaking workers during rapid typing, preventing thread growth and eventual out-of-memory failures in by by by by


• Fixed press-and-hold activation showing the picker after another key cancels the pending action in


• Modernized the Quick Accent selector with WinUI 3, preserving familiar interactions while improving theming, accessibility, and DPI-aware positioning in by by by by by


• Fixed the Quick Accent bar reappearing with a stale frame by cloaking it while hidden, keeping it rendered and removing the fixed reveal delay in by


• Fixed Quick Accent clipping or shifting the final character when descriptions are disabled, including on scaled displays in and


• Corrected and expanded currency mappings for Greek, Hebrew, and Vietnamese character sets in


• Expanded and reorganized IPA and Special character mappings, adding more phonetic symbols, punctuation, and per-mille characters in

Screen Ruler

• Migrated legacy measurement-unit values and repaired invalid settings, preventing Settings from crashing when leaving the Screen Ruler page in


• Restored navigation to the General page by applying the correct style to the update-channel description, preventing a XAML parsing failure in


• Resolved the PowerToys install path from the running executable before falling back to the registry, making Settings deep links and Workspaces launches more reliable in


• Improved PowerToys component communication to reduce hangs, stale callbacks, and blocked writes during shutdown in


• Improved Settings navigation and search failure handling, preventing unexpected errors from terminating the app in and


• Made attribution wording and the Stereolithography term localizable, enabling more natural translations across Settings in by


• Moved the NEW badge from Shortcut Guide to Window Hopper so Settings highlights the newly introduced utility in


• Added correct less-than and greater-than key rendering and prevented crashes from empty or invalid shortcut keys in


• Added Greenshot capture and editor shortcuts to Shortcut Guide in and


• Added Zoom Workspace shortcuts to Shortcut Guide, surfacing common meeting, view, mute, video, sharing, and leave controls while Zoom is active in


• Added common editing, playback, and color-grading shortcuts for DaVinci Resolve in


• Added navigation, item, account, locking, and view shortcuts for the 1Password desktop app in


• Added bundled Godot shortcuts to Shortcut Guide, making common editor commands available at a glance in


• Added ON1 Photo RAW shortcuts to Shortcut Guide, covering navigation, editing, masking, and other common workflows in by


• Fixed number-key rendering across bundled app manifests, making displayed shortcuts accurate in Adobe apps, browsers, Slack, Visual Studio Code, Blender, Figma, and Notepad in


• Replaced dual windows with a single transparent overlay, delivering smoother transitions, edge-aware taskbar indicators, and an on-screen hold control in


• Renamed Win+Q as Open Click to Do on Copilot+ PCs while preserving the Windows Search label for Win+S in by

ZoomIt

• Added DemoMirror to mirror a screen, region, or hovered window with the pointer onto a second monitor for clearer presentations in


• Added independently configurable ZoomIt Snip Save and Panorama Save shortcuts, preventing derived combinations from overriding common shortcuts such as Ctrl+S in and by by


• Added interior video segment deletion, automatic snip copying, and recording borders while improving trim reliability, making ZoomIt capture and editing workflows more capable in


• Fixed repeated or garbled wording in ZoomIt's Chinese description in


• Fixed a race that could crash ZoomIt when video recording with audio started before initialization completed in


• Fixed custom recording filenames losing numeric suffixes, while timestamped defaults now sort more clearly in


• Improved ZoomIt dialog alignment, spacing, and text layout, making configuration screens more consistent and readable in


• Prevented failed audio initialization from racing with recording startup and destabilizing ZoomIt in


• Improved release version handling so automatic builds use a clear default and explicit versions can recover from exhausted daily counters in


• Advanced automatic preview builds to the PowerToys 0.101 release train in


• Added opt-in preview update checks while retaining stable updates by default, clearly identifying preview builds and isolating their publishing flows in


• Fixed Runner hangs during Windows shutdown, restart, and sign-out, allowing PowerToys to exit promptly while preserving normal exit cleanup in


• Rejected invalid cached installer filenames that resolve outside the Updates folder, keeping normal updates on the intended path in


• Verified downloaded update installers before launch, rejecting unsigned, corrupted, or unexpected packages in and


• Added fallback window titles across affected utilities, preventing startup crashes when localized titles are temporarily unavailable in


• Fixed spelling checks for third-party ZoomIt sources and binary assets, preventing unrelated files from disrupting validation in


• Hardened PowerShell-based resource generation against user profiles and module warnings, making builds more reliable in


• Strengthened navigation-failure tests for missing page and exception details, helping prevent future Settings crashes in by


• Reordered the solution filter consistently, preventing unrelated Visual Studio project-order changes in


• Refactored extension loading into dedicated services, simplifying support for additional extension types in by by


• Added Japanese translation guidance for download and built-in battery terms in Command Palette, improving terminology accuracy in


• Added Chinese translation guidance that distinguishes Sleep from Hibernate in Command Palette, making system commands clearer in


• Added native Runner coverage for duplicate module hotkeys, improving regression detection for in-app shortcut conflicts in


• Added a ready-to-use settings manager to new extension templates, accelerating configurable extension development in


• Added Quick Shell to the community plugin list, making it easier to open saved project folders in any terminal in


• Improved WPF-to-WinUI 3 guidance with PowerToys windowing and declarative XAML patterns, helping contributors produce more consistent migrations in


• Excluded locally generated AI planning files from source control, preventing workspace-only artifacts from being committed in


• Handled unexpected Quick Access startup and navigation errors without terminating the flyout, keeping it available for the next launch in by


• Expanded WPF-to-WinUI 3 migration guidance with additional API, namespace, XAML, and phased-migration mappings, helping contributors complete ports in


• Updated CI branch filters for stacked pull requests, ensuring changes targeting non-main branches are validated in


• Consolidated PowerToys issue-triage queries into a repository-maintained developer document for easier updates in


• Fixed standalone project output paths, preventing recursive directories and maximum-path build failures in by


• Normalized the character-mapping file's line endings, preventing false modifications and simplifying contributor workflows in


• Updated third-party notices for ZoomIt's WebP screenshot encoding, keeping bundled component documentation accurate in


• Added an automatically published developer documentation site, making PowerToys contribution guidance easier to browse in


• Added a guided migration path for legacy UI tests and ported Screen Ruler as the first example, expanding CI coverage for the new framework in


• Added Awake module-services coverage for timed settings, establishing regression tests for runtime state creation in


• Added a Copilot agent skill for validating PowerToys modules against release checklists with evidence-based results in


• Added tests for Peek’s math and path helpers and clearer errors for invalid modulo divisors in by


• Improved next-generation UI test window targeting and executable discovery, reducing flaky interactions across local and CI environments in


• Fixed malformed skill metadata so WPF-to-WinUI 3 migration guidance loads correctly in Copilot CLI in by by by by


• Migrated CalculatorEngineCommon to standard C++20 coroutines, restoring full builds with newer Visual Studio toolchains in


• Kept shared packages current by updating centrally managed .NET dependencies to version 10.0.9 in , then to version 10.0.10 in


• Increased the IPC setup wait in interop tests, reducing intermittent CI failures on resource-constrained build agents in


• Optimized version-project change detection, avoiding unnecessary rebuilds and speeding up development builds in


• Removed obsolete cleanup tooling and its documentation, reducing unsupported maintenance code in


• Granted the auto-labeler permission to label pull requests and skipped reruns for description-only edits, reducing unnecessary workflow activity in


• Unified PowerDisplay and Common Utils test projects with the repository-wide C++ toolset selection, keeping builds consistent across supported Visual Studio versions in


• Updated repository workflows to actions/checkout version 7, preventing protected automation contexts from checking out forked code and keeping dependencies current in


• Expanded the PowerToys verification skill to validate module checklists, installed-build changes, and active PR builds through one shared workflow in


• Stabilized .NET 10 release builds by pinning an exact SDK in


• Pinned GitHub Actions to full commit SHAs and added a Dependabot cooldown for safer, reproducible automation in


• Replaced retired GitHub Models issue automation with agentic issue triage and aligned author-feedback workflows in


• Added a daily duplicate digest driven by AI Issue Triage output in


• Improved issue product-label detection using module title prefixes and agent-assisted fallback matching in


• Added automation that converts a successful preview release build into a validated GitHub draft prerelease for human review in


• Removed unused shared UI dependencies, stale API surface, and unreachable settings deep-link aliases in by @daverayment