Software update: PowerToys 0.55.1

Microsoft has released version 0.55.1 of PowerToys. The PowerToys are a collection of small programs for power users. There were PowerToys for Windows 95 and Windows XP and since mid-2019 Microsoft has also been developing a version for Windows 10 and higher. The PowerToys currently consist of wake† Color Picker† FancyZones† File Explorer Add-ons† Image Resizer† Keyboard Manager† PowerRename† PowerToys Run† Shortcut Guide and the Video Conference Mute, which is no longer offered as experimental from version 0.49. Version 0.55.1 is a so-called bugfix release and brings the following improvements:

Release v0.55.1

This is a patch release to fix issues in v0.55.0 we deemed important for stability based on user feedback. see v0.55.0 for full release notes. We’d like to thank everyone to help us diagnose and fix these.

• #15910 – Shortcut keys retain taken after disabled for Shortcut Guide, Mouse highlighter, Mouse pointer crosshair. This was a bug we had for a while but with the increased mouse utilities using the shared code path, it was just noticed.
• #15450 – Fixing a bug where settings wasn’t properly saving. This bug was introduced with 0.53 installer update and now is fixed with 0.55.1.
• #15487 – After install, PT won’t automatically start as admin unless dont-elevate arg is used. This bug was introduced with 0.53 installer update and now is fixed with 0.55.1.
• #15869 – Removed a dead code path and unused DLL
• #15885 – Mouse pointer crosshairs crashing race condition bug.
• #15348† #15488 – Small UX fixes for helping wayfind.
• #15887 – Revert part of a Window Walker improvements in #6084 that did a IsCloak check. This impacted virtual desktop users.