PowerToys 0.99.1 arrives with improvements for the new utilities

Earlier this month, Microsoft released PowerToys 0.99, and today, a new bug-fixing update arrived with improvements for the new tools.

Earlier this week, Microsoft dropped another monthly update for PowerToys, a set of useful utilities for Windows 10 and 11. In version 0.99, Microsoft introduced two new tools: Grab and Move and Power Display. Today, PowerToys 0.99.1 arrived with a few additional fixes for these new utilities, plus some fixes for Command Palette and its dock.

Here is the changelog:

Command Palette

• Fixed a crash on startup when loading settings caused by null DockSettings deserialized from settings.json
• Fixed a bug where dock label settings were not persisted across sessions

Grab And Move

• Fixed a bug where releasing the absorbed Alt key while pressing another key prevented it from propagating correctly to other apps
• Fixed a bug where there Start menu and other OS surfaces would be draggable
• Fixed a bug where the G key would be blocked, or Game Bar would be activated, when the modifier was set to Win key

Power Display

• Added additional diagnostic logging to help investigate display detection and control issues
• Defaulted the Input Source, Color Temperature, and Power State controls to off and added a confirmation dialog before applying these potentially disruptive changes
• Used the localized "Built-in Display" name for the internal display instead of a hard-coded string

In case you missed it, Grab and Move is a tool that lets you move a window by clicking anywhere on it while holding the Alt key. By default, Windows 10 and 11 only allow you to drag windows by holding their title bars, which is not very convenient, especially for browsers. Grab and Move fixes that.

The second utility, Power Display, lets you control your monitor's settings with a small pop-up menu. Available sliders include brightness, contrast, volume (if your monitor has built-in speakers), and more.

PowerToys 0.99.1 is now available for download from GitHub and the Microsoft Store.

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