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PowerToys v0.101.2492.0 Preview

This preview migrates Color Picker to WinUI 3, adds multiple Command Palette clocks, improves Keyboard Manager validation, and lets Awake turn off the display while Windows is locked.

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Highlights

• Color Picker: Migrated the picker, editor, zoom magnifier, resources, and input hooks from WPF to WinUI 3.


• Command Palette: Added multiple configurable clocks with independent time zones and formats.


• Awake: Allowed Windows to turn off the display while the workstation is locked without changing unlocked keep-awake behavior.


• PowerDisplay: Added JSON Lines output and structured errors to the CLI for scripting and automation.

Awake

• Added lock-state detection so the display can turn off while the workstation is locked and Awake can resume its configured behavior after unlock in .

Color Picker

• Migrated Color Picker from WPF to WinUI 3, including the picking overlay, editor, zoom magnifier, resources, telemetry, and input hooks in by .


• Fixed dock item activation with Enter and Space in .


• Guarded dynamic-page event invocation against extension exceptions in .


• Prevented shortcuts from being handled twice for non-action keyboard hook notifications in .


• Corrected the description of the low-level keyboard hook setting in .

Keyboard Manager

• Fixed duplicate and conflict validation when editing remaps by comparing mapping identities and conditions instead of list positions in .

PowerDisplay

• Added a global --json flag for compact JSON Lines results and structured errors in by by .


• Made automatically selected per-module UI tests and their resolver blocking in CI in .


• Migrated Hosts File Editor UI tests to UITest.Next and added missing release-checklist coverage in .