PowerToys

Dev preview v0.103.3099.0

This development preview includes Command Palette, File Explorer, Keyboard Manager and Settings improvements, together with startup, packaging and test updates since v0.103.3062.

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• Command Palette: Adaptive Cards now follow Fluent themes, accent colors and high-contrast settings.
• Command Palette: Extension-supplied Adaptive Cards can render native line charts and compact sparklines.
• Command Palette: Fixed settings-search result layout in wide windows.
• Command Palette: Kept fallback identity, ranking and global-result preferences separate for each provider.
• File Explorer: Improved thumbnail renderer handling, concurrent SVG requests and SVG/STL compatibility.
• General: Removed obsolete startup checks and remaining artifacts from the retired Video Conference Mute utility.
• Installer: Improved update compatibility with publisher-based application allowlists.
• Keyboard Manager: The new editor now follows the language selected in PowerToys settings.
• Mouse Without Borders: Corrected the Reconnect action label and fixed pairing failures in signed builds.
• Settings: Preserved selected Color Picker formats and device ordering while collections are reordered.
• General: Restored optional diagnostic event reporting without changing diagnostic-data preferences.

Command Palette

• Updated Adaptive Cards styling to follow Fluent light, dark, accent-color and high-contrast settings, in #51205.
• Added native line-chart support for Adaptive Cards supplied by extensions, including compact sparklines and accessible theme-aware rendering, in #51208.
• Fixed the settings-search results layout when the settings window is wide, in #51525 by @jiripolasek.
• Separated fallback identity, global-result preferences and ranking by provider while preserving existing ranking settings, in #51625.

File Explorer

• Improved handling of stalled thumbnail renderers, isolated concurrent SVG requests, and preserved supported SVG formatting and UTF-8 STL names, in #49950.

General

• Removed obsolete MSIX startup checks and remaining Video Conference Mute installer and policy artifacts; successful cleanup of its old camera registration now runs once, in #51097. The retired Video Conference Mute policy is no longer included in the updated ADMX templates.
• Updated telemetry to version 2.0.5 and restored optional diagnostic event reporting from native and managed components, without changing diagnostic-data preferences, in #51896 and #51940.

Installer

• Improved update compatibility with publisher-based application allowlists by signing and validating Windows Runtime metadata in the installer and

PowerToys 0.103.3062.0 is a development preview from main, containing 7 merged pull requests since v0.103.3052. This incremental prerelease focuses on Settings search handling, platform dependency updates, and build/test maintenance.

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• Settings: Search now ignores queries that normalize to empty or whitespace-only text, while preserving matching for regular queries.
• Platform: Updated Windows App SDK to 2.6.4, Win2D to 1.4.0, WebView2 to 1.0.4314.35, and related build/UI dependencies.

General

• Updated the Azure Pipelines, local, and shared-compilation MSBuildCache packages to 0.1.340-preview in #50222 by @dfederm.
• Integrated BugReportTool and StylesReportTool into the main build and consolidated application publishing for packaging into one parallel MSBuild invocation in #51657.
• Updated Windows App SDK to 2.6.4, Win2D to 1.4.0, WebView2 to 1.0.4314.35, and related BuildTools and Toolkit Labs packages, including Command Palette template and Keyboard Manager references in #51645.

Settings

• Updated Settings search to ignore queries that normalize to empty or whitespace-only text and made shared fuzzy matching return no match for whitespace-only input in #50531.

Development

• Added Awake end-to-end coverage for settings and tray controls, keep-awake and display modes, timers, CLI options, and process-bound operation in #51814.
• Reduced flaky Mouse Without Borders IPC tests by retrying test-pipe creation while a previous connection is still closing in #51782.
• Added onboarding UI tests for first-launch and version-change flows, module pages, reopening Welcome from Settings, and What's new navigation in #51815.

This hotfix release addresses crashes in File Locksmith and Quick Accent. See the v0.102.2933.0 release notes for the full list of changes in PowerToys v0.102.

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This patch contains two fixes since the previous stable release.

File Locksmith

• Fixed crashes when File Locksmith encounters a stalled file-handle scan, including crashes after the scan completes, in #51507.

Quick Accent

• Fixed Quick Accent crashes when using arrow-key activation after changing languages or switching from a shorter character list, in #51583.

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PowerToys 0.102 introduces two new mouse utilities, Mouse Button Lock and CursorHide, a quick-access shelf for Command Palette, and snip dictation in ZoomIt. This release also adds command-line tools for Advanced Paste, Light Switch, Settings, and Peek, brings tap-alone remaps and easier editing to Keyboard Manager, and moves Color Picker and Text Extractor to WinUI 3.

🖱️ Mouse Button Lock and CursorHide

Holding a mouse button down during a long drag or selection can be tiring. With Mouse Button Lock, press and hold a button for a moment, then let go. Windows keeps treating it as held, so you can continue dragging or selecting until you click any button. This is especially useful for gaming, working in professional applications that require extensive dragging and selection, and improving accessibility for users who find it difficult to hold down a mouse button for extended periods.

PR: #49279 (Thanks, @owenpkent!)

CursorHide is the second new mouse utility. It hides the mouse pointer while you type, after a period of inactivity, or both, and shows it again as soon as you move the mouse.

PR: #50271 (Thanks, @DamianEdwards!)

⚡ Command Palette gets a quick-access shelf

Compact mode in 0.101 kept Command Palette out of the way until you needed results. Now your favorite commands can be one keystroke away too. Turn on the quick-access shelf in Settings > Appearance > Compact mode to show your pins below the search box while the palette is collapsed. Press Alt+1 through Alt+9 to launch them, or Alt+Shift+number to select one without running it. Drag to reorder, right-click for more actions, and optionally show recent commands and apps next to your pins.

The shelf is just one part of a big Command Palette update:

• Settings search: Fuzzy search finds options, extensions, commands, aliases, and assigned shortcuts, then takes you straight to them.
• Keyboard-first Dock: Press Win+Alt+J to focus the dock and move between its items from the keyboard.