PowerToys update saves you hassle of installing .NET

The first PowerToys update of 2023 includes a ton of changes and improvements.

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What you need to know

Following a brief holiday break, many of Microsoft’s apps are receiving updates this week. PowerToys 0.66 was just bumped to version 0.66.0, which includes several fixes, changes, and improvements. The most notable change is that PowerToys now ships with self-contained .NET 7. That means that users don’t need to install .NET through the app’s installer. The change makes it easier to keep the app up to date as well.

It’s been a while since we’ve seen an update to PowerToys, so thechange logon GitHub is rather long.

PowerToys v0.66.0

Highlights

General

Color Picker

FancyZones

File Locksmith

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Hosts File Editor

PowerToys Run

Quick Accent

Settings

Text Extractor

Video Conference Mute

Documentation

Development

PowerToys |Free at Microsoft|GitHub

PowerToys is a powerful utility that adds a long list of tools to Windows. It just received its first update of 2023, which includes several changes and improvements.

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