Microsoft PowerToys update v0.76.0 is now available

A fresh update for PowerToys has been released for Windows 10 and 11. PowerToys version v0.76.0 brings with it a slew of fixes in addition to new features including all-new file explorer add-ons Preview Handler and Thumbnail Provider for QOI image files. Among the most notable improvements in v0.76.0 are the following.

Highlights

• Upgrade to .NET 8.
• Keyboard Manager can now remap keys and shortcuts to send sequences of unicode text.
• Modernized the Keyboard Manager Editor UI.
• Modernized the PowerToys Run, Quick Accent and Text Extractor UIs.
• New File Explorer Add-ons: QOI image Preview Handler and Thumbnail Provider.

General

• Updated the WebView 2 dependency to 1.0.2088.41.
• Fixed unreadable color brushes used across WinUI3 applications for improved accessibility.
• Flyouts used across WinUI3 applications are no longer constrained to the application’s bounds.
• Upgraded the WPF-UI dependency to preview.9 and then preview.11.
• Upgraded to .NET 8.
• Updated the WinAppSDK dependency to 1.4.3.

The complete release notes can be found over on GitHub.

For those unfamiliar with PowerToys, it’s “a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity.” PowerToys boasts several useful features that allow power users to get the most out of Windows. Fancy Zones, for example, allows users to create custom windows layouts that afford more options than simply snapping windows to halves or quadrants.

Other PowerToys features include mouse and keyboard utilities, which also saw improvements with this newest update with a modernized UI for Keyboard Manager. Additionally, “Keyboard Manager can now remap keys and shortcuts to send sequences of unicode text.”

Similarly, PowerToys Run, Quick Accent and Text Extractor tools also have modernized UIs.