Power Toys: v0.101.2241.0 Release

Release date:
August 12, 2026
Previous version:
v0.101.2222.0 (released August 11, 2026)
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617 Diff Delta
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2 total committers
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cgaarden
moooyo

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<!-- BEGIN POWERTOYS PREVIEW AGENT --> This preview includes the latest fixes and improvements for PowerToys v0.101.

Installer Hashes

| Description | Filename | sha256 hash | | --- | --- | --- | | Per user - x64 | PowerToysUserSetup-0.101.2241.0-x64.exe | E16F871F1D8481084999ECDDE5550DB777E577A372AA8798C3F5187020A97F53 | | Per user - ARM64 | PowerToysUserSetup-0.101.2241.0-arm64.exe | C538398B0088632846733C98CBFB47D7C74644F63D32F84E56F2E92552012322 | | Machine wide - x64 | PowerToysSetup-0.101.2241.0-x64.exe | 13BB217AB1B2F5F764FB0A11420F76AE38A846FEE84427B5011D85E39727DF81 | | Machine wide - ARM64 | PowerToysSetup-0.101.2241.0-arm64.exe | 50FDF082C05EBE3B9BACA810EF439AA04D4A21239CA3337E105485A52BB02C05 |

Highlights

  • File Locksmith: Restored localized commands in the Windows 11 context menu.
  • Mouse Highlighter: Improved rapid-input reliability by moving ripple work out of the low-level mouse hook.
  • New+: Improved renamed templates and positioned newly created desktop items near the context-menu cursor.
  • Quick Accent: Restored the selection highlight for the last character in long accent lists.

General

  • Restored localized File Locksmith commands in the Windows 11 context menu in #49606 by @Umoxfo
  • Improved Mouse Highlighter reliability during rapid input by moving ripple rendering and animation work off the low-level mouse hook in #49699
  • Fixed Quick Accent so the last character keeps its selection highlight when long accent lists are scrolled to the end in #49820

New+

  • Improved renamed templates and positioned newly created desktop items near the context-menu cursor with DPI-aware coordinates in #48083 by @cgaarden

Development

  • Pinned CI to .NET SDK 10.0.302 and centralized the matching runtime package version to prevent dependency-audit failures when the floating SDK channel advances in #49835 <!-- END POWERTOYS PREVIEW AGENT -->