🛠 Microsoft PowerToys 0.

🛠 Microsoft PowerToys 0.101 Released

The key update is a new Window Hopper tool for faster switching between windows of the same app. If you regularly have multiple windows of the same application open, switching between them is now much faster. Window Hopper works like the Alt + Tab shortcut, but is limited to the application you're currently using. Once enabled, users can use the Alt + ` shortcut to cycle through the windows of that application without having to cycle through all other elements on the desktop. This is especially useful when working with multiple browser windows, terminals, File Explorer windows, or code editor instances.


There is also a redesigned update system with Stable and Insider channels, and a compact mode for Command Palette. Microsoft is also continuing its move to WinUI 3, bringing Quick Accent and Mouse Jump into the new framework with better accessibility, multi-monitor support, and smoother behavior.

PowerDisplay gains linked brightness control for multiple monitors, a tray-based brightness shortcut, and better monitor management. Advanced Paste now supports local Phi Silica transforms on compatible Windows devices, reducing reliance on cloud AI. Keyboard Shortcut Guide adds smarter search and a new overlay interface, while ZoomIt gains DemoMirror for live screen duplication during presentations.

Mouse Highlighter gets a Ripple mode with smoother click effects. The release also includes many smaller stability, performance, and usability fixes across FancyZones, Keyboard Manager, Peek, PowerToys Run, File Explorer Add-ons, Image Resizing, Mouse Without Borders, Always on Top, and Color Picker.