There are reports of users who are unable to open the Settings window.After installing PowerToys, the new Windows 11 context menu entries for PowerRename and Image Resizer might not appear before a system restart.The Text Extractor utility fails to recognize text in some cases on ARM64 devices running Windows 10.NET that's shared between the different utilities. Next, the company will also be shipping a self-contained version of.

This should also help in removing the requirement for user account control (UAC) during the install process, though there's still work to be done before that can happen. Microsoft says it achieved this by sharing files like the Windows App SDK, VC++ Redistributable, and PowerToys Interop between the different tools. And, once installed, the app now takes up just 587MB instead of 817MB. The team has reduced the size of the PowerToys installer from 125MB (in version 0.62.1) to just 83MB. While it doesn't add a lot of new features, this version of PowerToys does come with some major improvements in terms of efficiency.

Microsoft has released version 0.63 of its PowerToys suite of productivity tools, and this one is more of a refinement update.

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