PowerToys 0.69 is out with the new Registry Preview utility, and a bunch of fixes

It is update time for those using PowerToys on Windows 10 and 11. Version 0.69.0 is now available for download with numerous fixes, improvements, and a new utility. Registry Preview lets you preview and edit registry files without having to use applications like Notepad.

There’s also a good number of fixes included in this release too which are included below.

Here are the highlights of the update:

Highlights

• New utility: Registry Preview is a utility to visualize and edit Windows Registry files. Thanks @randyrants!

• Support per-user scope installation.

• Awake: Quality-of-life improvements and introduced keeping system awake until expiration time and date. Thanks @dend!

• PowerToys Run: Fix crashing issue caused by thumbnail image loading.

And here is your in-depth changelog with improvements and changes for the existing toys:

General

• New utility: Registry Preview. Thanks @randyrants!

• Fix issue causing folders to not be removed on uninstall.

• Support per-user scope installation.

  • Companies can control this using the new GPO.

Awake

• Quality-of-life improvements and introduced keeping system awake until expiration time and date. Thanks @dend!

Color Picker

• Fix issue sampling timing and grid issue causing Color Picker to sample the color of its own grid. Thanks @IHorvalds!

FancyZones

• Fix window cycling on multiple monitors issue.

File Locksmith

• Add context menu icon. Thanks @htcfreek!

Mouse Utils

• Mouse Jump – Simulate mouse input event on mouse jump in addition to cursor move.

• Mouse Jump – Improve performance of screenshot generation. Thanks @mikeclayton!

Paste as Plain Text

• Support Ctrl+V as activation shortcut. (This was a hotfix for 0.67)

• Repress modifier keys after plain paste. (This was a hotfix for 0.67) Thanks @UnderKoen!

• Set default shortcut to Ctrl+Win+Alt+V. (This was a hotfix for 0.67)

• Update icons. Thanks @niels9001!

PowerRename

• Show PowerRename in directory background context menu.

• Fix the crash on clicking Select/UnselectAll checkbox while showing only files to be renamed.

• Improve performance on populating Renamed items when many items are being renamed.

PowerToys Run

• Add setting to disable thumbnails generation for files. (This was a hotfix for 0.67)

• Calculator plugin – handle implied multiplication expressions. Thanks @jjavierdguezas!

• Fix Calculator plugin unit tests to respect decimal separator locale. Thanks @davidegiacometti!

• Fix crashing caused by thumbnail image loading.

• Date & Time plugin – Add filename-compatible date & time format. Thanks @Picazsoo!

• Improved the error message shown on plugin loading error. Thanks @htcfreek!

Quick Accent

• Fix existing and add missing Hebrew and Pinyin characters. Thanks @stevenlele!

Registry Preview

• Added a new utility: Registry Preview.

• Thanks @htcfreek! for the help shipping this utility!

• Thanks @niels9001 for the help on the UI!

Video Conference Mute

• Add toolbar DPI scaling support.

• Fix selecting overlay image when Settings app is running elevated.

• Add push-to-talk (and push-to-reverse) feature. Thanks @pajawojciech!

Settings

Documentation

• Update CONTRIBUTING.md with information about localization issues. Thanks @Aaron-Junker!

• Remove localization from URLs. Thanks @Jay-o-Way!

• Add dev docs for tools. Thanks @Aaron-Junker!

Development

• Ignore spellcheck for MouseJumpUI/MainForm.resx file. (This was a hotfix for 0.67)

• Optimize versionAndSignCheck.ps1 script. Thanks @snickler!

• Upgraded NetAnalyzers to 7.0.1. Thanks @davidegiacometti!

• Move all DLL imports in Settings project to NativeMethods.cs file.

• Fix FancyZones tools build issues. Thanks @Aaron-Junker!

• Centralize Logger used in C# projects. Thanks @Aaron-Junker!

• Add missing project references. Thanks @ACGNnsj!

You can download PowerToys from the Microsoft Store, winget, or its repository on GitHub.

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