GitHub Release: microsoft/PowerToys v0.101.2712.0 (30.09.2026)

This preview includes the latest features, fixes, and improvements since PowerToys Preview v0.101.2684.0.

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Highlights

• Command Palette: Added an opt-in Quick Access Shelf prototype for pinned commands in collapsed compact mode.


• Command Palette: Added support for opening the palette with the Copilot key through Windows Settings.


• Command Palette Dock: Added Win+Alt+J to reveal and focus the Dock, with keyboard access to item actions.


• Command Palette: Added copyable deep links to individual settings and extension options.


• Command Palette Dock: Improved layout preservation across Miracast reconnects, monitor renumbering, port changes, and resume.


• Command Palette Dock: Initialized empty secondary Docks from the primary layout and added custom display names.


• Command Palette: Improved icon caching and scheduling and prevented stale icons in recycled rows.


• Command Palette: Fixed duplicate context-action invocation and added clearer submenu navigation.


• Mouse Jump: Fixed the undersized Settings preview.

General

• Added GoogleTranslate to the documented third-party PowerToys Run plugins list in #50630 by @nzcodes

Command Palette

• Added an opt-in Quick Access Shelf prototype for pinned commands in collapsed compact mode, with an overflow menu and Alt+number shortcuts in #49915 by @jiripolasek


• Fixed icon cache identity and lifetime hazards and coalesced redundant refreshes to avoid stale results and unnecessary reloads in #50183 by @jiripolasek


• Prioritized live icon requests over speculative work and loaded eligible glyph icons directly instead of queuing them behind image extraction in #50184 by @jiripolasek


• Separated glyph and image caches and created synchronous icon sources directly, reducing cache churn and avoidable asynchronous work in #50187 by @jiripolasek


• Added app-icon protocols and deferred Installed Apps icon extraction to the shared, demand-aware loader in #50188 by @jiripolasek


• Prevented recycled rows from displaying another item's stale icon and reused image presenters to reduce UI control churn in #50189 by @jiripolasek


• Added generated color-swatch and Unicode-initials icons for extensions, with shared shapes, theme colors, and fallback behavior in #50190 by @jiripolasek


• Preserved Dock customizations when a Miracast display reconnects with a different Windows display name in #50502 by @AlanJie


• Reduced excess spacing in compact Performance Monitor Dock items while keeping dynamic labels stable in #50525 by @jiripolasek. Extension authors should replace SetDockLabelWidth and ClearDockLabelWidth with SetDockLabelReservations, SetDockLabelWidthLimits, and their corresponding clear helpers.


• Added copyable deep links to individual settings and extension options, with automatic expansion, scrolling, focus, and highlighting of the destination in #50753 by @jiripolasek


• Improved pointer-versus-keyboard tracking in list and grid views so single-click, double-click, and keyboard activation are distinguished correctly in #50764 by @jiripolasek


• Persisted built-in fallback defaults when providers load so they appear in global results without first opening Settings in #50799 by @Subhro-ai


• Copied the primary Dock layout when enabling a secondary monitor without its own bands, while preserving existing nonempty layouts in #50810. Intentionally empty secondary Docks are also populated after disabling and re-enabling them.


• Added the configurable Win+Alt+J shortcut to reveal and focus the Dock, then return focus to the previous window when pressed again in #50812


• Improved per-monitor Dock settings preservation across display renumbering and port changes using stable device IDs and unambiguous hardware matches in #50825


• Allowed monitor enumeration to settle after resume before removing Docks, preventing temporary display loss from closing a returning monitor's Dock in #50831


• Added custom display names for Dock settings and on-screen identification, with stable default labels across reconnects in #50842 by @AlanJie


• Fixed shortcuts invoking context actions twice and unified menus across the palette and Dock, including focused-item shortcuts, focus restoration, and accessible announcements in #50843 by @jiripolasek


• Added support for choosing Command Palette as the app opened by the Copilot key in Windows Settings in #50846 by @noraa-junker


• Added submenu chevrons and a back entry to make context-menu navigation clearer in #50847 by @jiripolasek


• Registered the Dock focus shortcut only while the Dock is enabled, freeing the global key combination when it is turned off in #50849


• Added the missing deep link to the Dock focus shortcut setting in #50851 by @jiripolasek

Mouse Jump

• Fixed the undersized Mouse Jump preview in Settings by rendering the layout to the preview control's available size in #50489 by @mikeclayton

Development

• Added opt-in diagnostics for Command Palette icon loading, cache activity, and UI responsiveness, disabled during normal use in #50181 by @jiripolasek


• Separated dispatcher wait time from actual icon UI-thread work in diagnostics, with cache and materialization breakdowns in #50182 by @jiripolasek


• Moved icon classification, path parsing, and conversion into a testable managed implementation while preserving fallback behavior and bitmap lifetimes in #50185 by @jiripolasek


• Reduced temporary allocations and copies in managed icon conversion and improved cleanup after failed bitmap conversions in #50186 by @jiripolasek


• Added extension toolkit clipboard helpers for images and other DataPackage formats and corrected native clipboard write-failure handling in #50832


• Resolved FancyZones editor collection-property diagnostics while preserving JSON deserialization, bindings, and live collection identities in #50726 by @matthudson