Microsoft releases PowerToys v0.20 update with a new color picker utility and more

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Microsoft today announced the release of PowerToys v0.20 with three new features and several bug fixes to improve the overall experience. This new PowerToys update comes with a system wide Color picker utility, SVG icon rendering in File explorer, and more.

Find the full change log of PowerToys v0.20 release below:

  • Martin Chrzan’s Color Picker was added in! With a quick Win+Shift+C, get the color from your screen
  • File Explorer – Can now render SVG icons thanks to Chris Davis
  • FancyZones – you can now snap to any number of zones in FancyZones holding Shift+Ctrl while dragging a window
  • PT Run – keyboard interaction improvements
  • PT Run – freshly installed apps are now being detected
  • PT Run – Lots of perf and bug fixes
  • Keyboard manager – app level shortcuts
    • Example: For Outlook, Remap Ctrl+F to F4 and now Ctrl+F will put up the find window 🙂
  • Keyboard manager – Now can remap key to shortcut and shortcut to key.
  • Settings – Now has improved OOBE based on the work the Microsoft Garage Interns did during their hackathon
  • PowerRename improvements

Source: Microsoft

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