IT Home October 7th news, Microsoft has now announced the 0.63 version of PowerToys, mainly focusing on stability and functional improvements. According to feedback from friends, the Chinese OCR recognition no longer has intervals, which is better than the previous version.
In this version, Microsoft reduces the files of the installer (125 MB in 0.62.1 and 83 MB in 0.63.0) and install (817 MB in 0.62.1 compared to 587 MB in 0.63.0) programs by sharing Windows application SDK, VC++ components, and PowerToys interop runtime. The next step will be to provide independent and shared .NET.
PowerToys Update 0.63.0 Version
Highlights
-QuickAccent Contains a new setting to select language, which should reduce the number of accent characters
This will reduce the number of accent characters that users need to select
-reduce the size of the installer (125MB in 0.62.1, 83MB in 0.63.0) and the installer (817MB in 0.62.1, 587MB in 0.63.0) and the installer (817MB in 0.62.1, 587MB in 0.63.0) to share the Windows App between tools SDK, VC++ redistribution and PowerToys interop runtime files. This is a step towards the UAC requirement when canceling the installation. The next step is to integrate .NET into one and share it among utilities.
Known Issues
On ARM64 devices running Windows 10, the text extractor tool does not recognize text in some cases.
After PowerToys is installed, the new Windows11 context menu entries for PowerRename and lmageResizer may not appear before the system restarts.
has a report that users cannot open the settings window. This is caused by incompatibility of some applications (RTSS Riva Tuner Statistics Server and MSI AfterBurner are known examples).
If you are affected by this, please check the link question to verify whether the solution proposed by Microsoft is effective for you
IT Home Friends can download PowerToys 0.62 version in GitHub or Microsoft application store, pay attention to distinguishing between x64 and arm64 versions.
