PowerToys adds "Image to text" conversion to Advanced Paste tool

PowerToys is simply a group of utilities for powerfulness users to tune and streamline their Windows acquisition for greater productivity. Inspired by nan Windows 95 era PowerToys project, this reboot provides powerfulness users pinch utilities to compression much retired of nan Windows ammunition and customize it for their individual workflows.

What devices are included successful PowerToys?

Microsoft keeps adding utilities to nan suite, nevertheless nan 21 main devices are: Always connected Top, PowerToys Awake, Color Picker, FancyZones, File Explorer Add-ons, File Locksmith, Hosts File Editor, Image Resizer, Keyboard Manager, Mouse utilities, Mouse Without Borders, Peek, Paste arsenic Plain Text, PowerRename, PowerToys Run, Quick Accent, Registry Preview, Screen Ruler, Shortcut Guide, Text Extractor, and Video Conference Mute.

What is nan intent of PowerToys?

PowerToys are smaller add-ons aliases utilities that tin heighten and customize your Windows experience. Microsoft created PowerToys for powerfulness users looking for a spot much personalization and tweakability.

What are nan 2 astir useful devices successful PowerToys?

PowerToys offers respective useful devices for circumstantial usage cases, but 2 very celebrated ones are FancyZones, which lets you rearrange your model layout to tally aggregate apps connected 1 screen, and PowerToys Run, which is simply a Spotlight-like launcher that includes speedy hunt for apps and files successful Windows.

Is Microsoft PowerToys free?

Yes, PowerToys is free and open-source.

Does PowerToys activity connected Windows 11?

PowerToys is compatible pinch Windows 10 and Windows 11

Getting started

To footwear nan tires connected nan first 2 utilities, download nan installer here. The main PowerToys work runs erstwhile Windows starts and a personification logs in. When nan work is running, a PowerToys icon appears successful nan strategy tray. Selecting nan icon launches nan PowerToys settings UI. The settings UI lets you alteration and disable individual utilities and provides settings for each utility. There is besides a nexus to nan thief doc for each utility. You tin correct click nan tray icon to discontinue nan Power Toys service.

PowerToys settings UI.Note that immoderate PowerToys functionality requires moving successful an elevated process. Elevation is required to interact pinch and manipulate windows from processes that person a higher group of authorities than nan existent user. This is why nan PowerToys.exe requests elevation erstwhile launched.

If you find bugs aliases person suggestions, please unfastened an rumor successful nan Power Toys GitHub repo. The backlog for creating caller utilities is here. You tin supply feedback connected nan backlog to propose caller ideas aliases a different privilege bid by joining nan backlog chat successful this issue.

Current PowerToy utilities

The presently disposable utilities include:

Crop And Lock

Crop And Lock allows you to harvest a existent exertion into a smaller model aliases conscionable create a thumbnail. Focus nan target model and property nan shortcut to commencement cropping.

Mouse Without Borders

Control a group of machines utilizing nan aforesaid keyboard/mouse, stock clipboard betwixt nan machines and transportation files betwixt nan machines.

Peek

A system-wide inferior for Windows that allows you to preview record contented without nan request to unfastened aggregate applications aliases interrupt your workflow. It offers a seamless and speedy record preview acquisition for various record types, including images, web pages, Markdown files, matter files, and developer files.

Always connected Top

Always connected Top enables you to pin windows connected apical of each different windows pinch a speedy cardinal shortcut (â Win+Ctrl+T).

PowerToys Awake

PowerToys Awake is designed to support a machine awake without having to negociate its powerfulness & slumber settings. This behaviour tin beryllium adjuvant erstwhile moving time-consuming tasks, ensuring that nan machine does not spell to slumber aliases turns disconnected its screens.

Color Picker

ColorPicker is simply a system-wide colour picking inferior activated pinch Win+Shift+C. Pick colors from immoderate presently moving application, nan picker automatically copies nan colour into your clipboard successful a group format. Color Picker besides contains an editor that shows a history of antecedently picked colors, allows you to fine-tune nan selected colour and to transcript different drawstring representations. This codification is based connected Martin Chrzan's Color Picker.

FancyZones

FancyZones is simply a model head that makes it easy to create analyzable model layouts and quickly position windows into those layouts.

File Explorer add-ons

File Explorer add-ons alteration preview pane rendering successful File Explorer to show SVG icons (.svg), Markdown (.md) and PDF record previews. To alteration nan preview pane, prime nan "View" tab successful File Explorer, past prime "Preview Pane".

Image Resizer

Image Resizer is simply a Windows Shell hold for quickly resizing images. With a elemental correct click from File Explorer, resize 1 aliases galore images instantly. This codification is based connected Brice Lambson's Image Resizer.

Keyboard Manager

Keyboard Manager allows you to customize nan keyboard to beryllium much productive by remapping keys and creating your ain keyboard shortcuts. This PowerToy requires Windows 10 1903 (build 18362) aliases later.

Mouse utilities

Mouse utilities adhd functionality to heighten your rodent and cursor. With Find My Mouse, quickly find your mouse's position pinch a spotlight that focuses connected your cursor. This characteristic is based connected root codification developed by Raymond Chen.

PowerRename

PowerRename enables you to execute bulk renaming, searching and replacing record names. It includes precocious features, specified arsenic utilizing regular expressions, targeting circumstantial record types, previewing expected results, and nan expertise to undo changes. This codification is based connected Chris Davis's SmartRename.

PowerToys Run

PowerToys Run tin thief you hunt and motorboat your app instantly - conscionable property nan shortcut Alt+Space and commencement typing. It is unfastened root and modular for further plugins. Window Walker is now included arsenic well. This PowerToy requires Windows 10 1903 (build 18362) aliases later.

Shortcut Guide

Windows cardinal shortcut guideline appears erstwhile a personification presses â Win+Shift+/ (or arsenic we for illustration to think, â Win+?) and shows nan disposable shortcuts for nan existent authorities of nan desktop. You tin besides alteration this mounting and property and clasp â Win.

Video Conference Mute

Video Conference Mute is simply a speedy measurement to globally "mute" some your microphone and camera utilizing â Win+Shift+Q while connected a convention call, sloppy of nan exertion that presently has focus. This requires Windows 10 1903 (build 18362) aliases later.

Languages

Currently, PowerToys is disposable successful nan pursuing languages: Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Turkish.

Community led and developed successful nan open

Our extremity for nan PowerToys task is for it to beryllium an hold of nan Windows powerfulness personification organization and for it to supply nan functionality these users find astir valuable. Our backlog of utilities is connected GitHub, and we promote nan organization to supply feedback connected nan backlog successful this issue. Each inferior has its ain characteristic backlog. You tin besides lend to nan Windows shortcut guideline backlog and nan FancyZones backlog. For caller inferior suggestions, please create a caller rumor to talk nan idea.

What's New

Highlights

• Advanced Paste has caller abilities: Image to text, and paste to record (text / png / html).
• In settings, we've adjusted nan near navigation to group nan utilities. As nan number of utilities shipped pinch PowerToys keeps growing, we felt this was a needed adjustment. Thanks everyone for your feedback!
• Workspaces received galore bug fixes, including nan due launching of galore instances of nan aforesaid exertion successful nan aforesaid workspace. Note, we are still actively looking astatine really to decently grip PWA detection.
• We've added a telemetry opt-in action successful nan Settings General tab. As it is off-by-default, we promote users to move it connected arsenic that helps nonstop our improvement efforts and their journeys. More accusation astir nan information we cod tin beryllium recovered successful nan PowerToys Data and Privacy archiving and what each arena does.

General

• Added a mounting for telemetry opt-in (off by default, however, spot supra for why we promote you to opt-in!) and personification controls to position data.
• Improved objection logging by adding nan type of Exception and InnerException. Thanks @davidegiacometti!

Advanced Paste

• Added caller built-in actions: Image to text, and paste txt, png aliases html arsenic a file.

Mouse Jump

• Refactored nan communal classes into a abstracted project. Thanks @mikeclayton!
• Brought backmost nan telemetry events that were deleted crossed erstwhile refactoring efforts.

Mouse Without Borders

• Refactored nan Logger communal classes. Thanks @mikeclayton!

New+

• Fixed nan telemetry arena for erstwhile nan modules is enabled aliases disabled. (This was a hotfix for 0.85)
• Fixed bug erstwhile creating folders aliases files that incorporate Unicode characters. Thanks @cgaarden!
• Fixed bug erstwhile nan sanction of a caller files collided pinch an already existing folder. Thanks @cgaarden!
• Updated nan New+ icons to nan fluent style.

Peek

• Folder preview enumeration of size and number of files is now much responsive and faster. Thanks @daverayment!

PowerToys Run

• Handled a civilization not recovered correction erstwhile checking for right-to-left languages.
• Fixed nan WebSearch plugin results title being trimmed successful nan UI. Thanks @octastylos-pseudodipteros!
• The Unit Converter plugin will now show much important digits. Thanks @PesBandi!
• Improved correction handling erstwhile copying to nan clipboard results successful an error. Thanks @PesBandi!

Quick Accent

• Added support for nan Serbian Cyrillic characteristic set. Thanks @Sirozha1337!

Registry Preview

• Adopted nan Monaco Editor arsenic nan UI matter editor. Thanks @davidegiacometti!

Settings

• Fixed a clang erstwhile trying to entree a non-existing templates files from nan New+ page. (This was a hotfix for 0.85)
• Added a navigation character to group utilities successful nan near navigation menu.
• Sorted nan database of languages successful nan connection action combo container successful nan General tab. Thanks @davidegiacometti!
• Fixed nan authorities of nan info barroom astir templates not being backed up to not adjacent and respond to nan module's enabled authorities successful nan New+ page. Thanks @htcfreek!
• Fixed a clang caused by a dangling thread.
• Clicking a notification astir location being an update disposable should now correctly unfastened nan Settings exertion successful nan General tab.
• Fixed a UI frost erstwhile trying to entree nan Diagnostic Data Viewer files. Thanks @davidegiacometti!

Workspaces

• Fixed launching nan incorrect workspace erstwhile launching galore workspaces quickly done shortcuts. (This was a hotfix for 0.85)
• Fixed launching galore instances of nan aforesaid exertion successful a workspace.
• Fixed a clang erstwhile a antecedently captured show ID nary longer existed.
• Fixed an rumor causing nan incorrect coordinates to beryllium saved for minimized applications.
• Fixed an rumor causing a clang erstwhile accent testing workspace launching.
• Fixed exertion launching erstwhile UAC is disconnected and each exertion ever runs elevated.

Documentation

• Added HackMD plugin mention to thirdPartyRunPlugins.md. Thanks @8LWXpg!
• Added SSH plugin mention to thirdPartyRunPlugins.md. Thanks @8LWXpg!
• Added nan Data and Privacy archiving to nan repo.

Development

• Fixed nan CI precheck action to return into relationship nan caller changes successful CI actions.
• Added nan caller Microsoft org rumor types to nan rumor templates. Thanks @Aaron-Junker!
• Updated System.Text.Json to 8.0.5 and System.Runtime.Caching to 8.0.1 and related limitations to nan latest to reside information reports. Thanks @snickler!
• Updated WinAppSDK to 1.6.1 and CsWinRT to 2.1.5. Thanks @snickler!
• Upgraded nan WpfUI dependency to 3.0.5.
• Updated MessagePack to 2.5.187 and StreamJsonRpc to 2.19.27 to reside information reports.
• Removed immoderate of nan hacks that are nary longer needed that tried to unit aforesaid dependency versions successful .csproj files.
• Removed nan Markdown record exclusions from nan conditions that trigger a afloat CI test.
• CI fails again erstwhile location are XAML style errors successful a PR.
• Fixed CI actions that were not failing erstwhile 1 of nan powershell scripts they tried to tally was failing.
• Fixed researcher violations to let afloat building PowerToys connected Visual Studio 17.12. Thanks @snickler!