Microsoft PowerToys latest update adds impressive new clipboard and mouse tools
Yet more reasons you should be using PowerToys on your PC.
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What you need to know
Microsoft’s most excellentPowerToysfor Windows 10 and 11 has another update pushing out and as ever, has some interesting new stuff for us to play with.
Among the raft of fixes and improvements delivered in version 0.68.0, two new utilities are added. The first is a clipboard tool to make it easier to paste text without formatting, while the other, mouse jump, is perfect for multi-monitor and ultrawide users.
Windows already has ways built in to allow pasting as plain text and stripping away any formatting, but the beauty of the PowerToys implementation is that you can set your own custom shortcut to do it.
The other new utility added to PowerToys with this latest update is mouse jump. This lets you move your mouse cursor over great distances. Before panic sets in, this is only triggered with a shortcut to tell the system you want to do it. But when enabled it’ll let you jump across different displays or even across your ultrawide monitor with ease.
PowerToys v 0.68.0 changelog
There’s a lot packed into this update with a significant number of fixes and improvements joining the new features. Here are the highlights:
Outside of these, a personal favorite is that Steam shortcuts (steam://open/) have been added to PowerToys Run. I use this feature almost exclusively to launch things on my PC, so added Steam integration is certainly welcome.
Check out the full changelog on thePowerToys GitHub repo. You can also grab the latest release from there, through theMicrosoft Storeor using theWindows Package Manager.
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