Microsoft’s free suite of system utilities called PowerToys has been resurrected from the Windows XP era and is being introduced to Windows 10 in May 2019. It can be used by advanced users to tweak and simplify Windows operations to increase efficiency. By working with Windows 10/Windows 11 shell, it also allows users to customize individual workflows.
Today, PowerToys version 0.62 has been released on GitHub, and this update adds three new tools, so let’s take a look.
Screen Ruler: A quick and easy way to measure screen pixels, with Win + Shift + M as the shortcut.
- Quick Accent: An easy way to write accented letters, press the activation key while holding down the key of the character to which you want to add the accent, then the overlay for selecting the accented character will be displayed.
- Text Extractor: Similar to the screenshot tool, you can copy the text out of the selected area and place it on the clipboard via OCR, with the shortcut Win + Shift + T.
- PowerToy Run comes with a new plugin that allows users to search through past query results.
In addition, PowerToys version 0.62 upgrades the Windows App SDK to version 1.1.4 and makes bug fixes to several tools.
partners can download PowerToys version 0.62 from GitHub or the Microsoft App Store, and note the distinction between x64 and arm64 versions.
