PowerToys 0.64.0

Microsoft PowerToys is a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity. For more info on PowerToys overviews and how to use the utilities, or any other tools and resources for Windows development environments, head over to learn.microsoft.com!

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License MITL
State stable

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0.64.005 Nov 2022 15:10 minor feature: Highlights New utility: File Locksmith allows seeing which processes are currently using the selected files. New utility: Hosts File Editor allows you to edit your hosts file in an Editor UI. Thanks @davidegiacometti! Settings has a new feature for backing up / restoring the settings from a file. Thanks @jefflord! FancyZones allows you to set defaults for horizontal/vertical screens to get better intended behavior for new screens and cases where a monitor ID resets. PowerToys ships with Group Policy Objects settings for force disabling and enabling PowerToys utilities in organizations. Check the GPO docs for more details. Added a warning about deprecating Video Conference Mute in the future (v0.67), please check #21473 for more information. Known issues The Text Extractor utility fails to recognize text in some cases on ARM64 devices running Windows 10. After installing PowerToys, the new Windows 11 context menu entries for PowerRename and Image Resizer might not appear before a system restart. There are reports of users who are unable to open the Settings window. This is being caused by incompatibilities with some applications (RTSS RivaTuner Statistics Server is a known examples of this). If you're affected by this, please check the linked issue to verify if any of the presented solutions works for you. Always on Top Detect and put a window on top again if it's no longer on top. Color Picker Added the hexadecimal integer format. Thanks @marius-bughiu! FancyZones Added a way for users to configure default layouts for horizontal and vertical screens. Replaced remaining Number Boxes in FancyZones Editor with Sliders, to improve accessibility for screen readers. Fixed an issue breaking window switching shortcuts. File Locksmith Added a new utility: File Locksmith. Thanks @niels9001 for the design on the UI! Group Policy Objects Group Policy Objects settings for force disabling and enablin