MS Update for PowerToys (0.62)

Three New Tools Added

September 8, 2022 3:33 AM from

Just a 'headsup' for you power users...

Microsoft has updated PowerToys to 0.62 and has added three new tools to the existing ones:

New utility: Screen Ruler is a quick and easy way to measure pixels on your screen.
New utility: Quick Accent is an easy way to write letters with accents.
New utility: Text Extractor works like Snipping Tool, but copies the text out of the selected region using OCR and puts it on the clipboard.
PowerToy Run ships with a new Plugin letting you search in past query results.

There are known issues with the PowerToys, and they're listed in the linked Neowin article (above):

The Text Extractor utility fails to recognize text in some cases on ARM64 devices running Windows 10.
After installing PowerToys, the new Windows 11 context menu entries for PowerRename and Image Resizer might not appear before a system restart.
There are reports of users who are unable to open the Settings window. This is being caused by incompatibilities with some applications (RTSS RivaTuner Statistics Server and MSI AfterBurner are known examples of this). If you're affected by this, please check the linked issue to verify if any of the presented solutions works for you.