PowerToys version 0.27 out with a bunch of improvements and bug fixes

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Here is the full changelog for PowerToys 0.64.0:

Highlights:

• New utility: File Locksmith allows seeing which processes are currently using the selected files.
  
• New utility: Hosts File Editor allows you to edit your hosts file in an Editor UI.
  
• Settings has a new feature for backing up / restoring the settings from a file.
  
• FancyZones allows you to set defaults for horizontal/vertical screens to get better intended behavior for new screens and cases where a monitor ID resets.
  
• PowerToys ships with Group Policy Objects settings for force disabling and enabling PowerToys utilities in organizations. Check the GPO docs for more details.
  
• Added a warning about deprecating Video Conference Mute in the future (v0.67), please check #21473 for more information.
  

Known Issues:

• The Text Extractor utility fails to recognize text in some cases on ARM64 devices running Windows 10.
  
• After installing PowerToys, the new Windows 11 context menu entries for PowerRename and Image Resizer might not appear before a system restart.
  
• There are reports of users who are unable to open the Settings window. This is being caused by incompatibilities with some applications (RTSS RivaTuner Statistics Server is a known examples of this). If you're affected by this, please check the linked issue to verify if any of the presented solutions works for you.
  

Always on Top

• Detect and put a window on top again if it's no longer on top.
  

Color Picker

• Added the hexadecimal integer format.
  

FancyZones

• Added a way for users to configure default layouts for horizontal and vertical screens.
  
• Replaced remaning Number Boxes in FancyZones Editor with Sliders, to improve accessibility for screen readers.Fixed an issue breaking window switching shortcuts.
  

File Locksmith

• Added a new utility: File Locksmith.
  

Group Policy Objects

• Group Policy Objects settings for force disabling and enabling PowerToys utilities.
  

Hosts File Editor

• Added a new utility: Hosts File Editor.
  

Keyboard Manager

• Fixed a delay that was not being cancelled properly. Thanks @AtariDreams!
  

Mouse Utilities

• Changed the opacity setting to the 1-100 range.
  

PowerToys Run

• Changed image loading to release the images in PowerToys Run main executable. This is a try to fix the "app.dark.png" missing issues received after a PowerToys update.
  
• Fixed the PowerToys Run hiding after the default action failed.
  
• Fixed the PowerToys Run allows showing after a context menu action succeeded.
  

Quick Accent

• Corrected "Dutch" word to "German".
  
• Added the Portuguese language accents.
  
• Fixed positioning of toolbar on scaled desktops.
  

Screen Ruler

• Improved the acrylic brush used in the menu. Thanks @niels9001!
  

Settings

• Added a feature to backup/restore settings to/from a file.
  
• Fixed an issue causing shortcuts shown in OOBE not updating to new values when the window was re-opened.
  
• Fixed the "Documents" folder usage in the backup/restore feature.
  

Text Extractor

• Added a warning about how to install languages for OCR recognition.
  
• Fixed the overlay not focusing after the first activation.
  
• Added spaces between CJK and non-CKJ words.
  

Video Conference Mute

• Added a setting to hide the Video Conference Mute overlay when muted.
  
• Added a warning about deprecating Video Conference Mute in the future (v0.67), please check #21473 for more information.
  

Installer

• Added some missing files that were causing Settings and PowerRename to not function correctly on some configurations.
  
• Updated the .NET dependency to 6.0.10.
  

Development

• Consolidated nuget packages and removed a few unused packages.
  
• Updated the Windows.CppRT to the latest version.
  
• Removed the cxxopts dependency, which was no longer used.
  
• Updated the cziplob dependency to 0.25.
  
• Updated the System.IO.Abstractions dependency.
  
• Turned on C++ code analysis and incrementally fixing warnings.
  
• Added the install method to the issue template on GitHub, since some issues seem to be related to specific installation methods.
  
• Automated installer hash creation in the release CI.
  
• Simplified use of .First() on ImageResizer.
  
• Improved and clarified the issues templates.
  
• Fixed a PTRun unit test to be more compatible with .NET 6.
  

You can download PowerToys 0.64.0 from the Microsoft Store or GitHub.