{"id":14500,"date":"2020-05-20T11:50:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T09:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=14500"},"modified":"2024-10-05T18:51:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T16:51:40","slug":"powertoys-0-18-with-run-launcher-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2020\/05\/20\/powertoys-0-18-with-run-launcher-released\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerToys 0.18 with Run launcher released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/win102.jpg\" width=\"58\" height=\"58\" align=\"left\" \/>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/20\/powertoys-0-18-mit-run-launcher-freigegeben\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">German<\/a>]Microsoft released version 0.18 of PowerToys for Windows 10 users a few hours ago. These tools are free and offer additional features for Windows 10. The new version 0.18 includes the new Run launcher. <strong>Addendum:<\/strong> Clint Rutkas has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClintRutkas\/status\/1263634043754565632\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a>, that version 0.18.1 is 'coming this night', but till now, I haven't found a change log.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>PowerToys Background<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vg04.met.vgwort.de\/na\/a93af482bada423394dc086d4f977440\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>PowerToys were free programs under Windows 95\/98, with which certain Windows features could be optimized or adapted. Inspired by the PowerToys project under Windows 95, some developers dared to restart. The intended was to give power users the ability to get more efficiency out of the Windows 10 shell and customize it for individual workflows. The announcement tool place at the beginning of May 2019 (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20201127163302\/https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2019\/05\/09\/windows-10-powertoys-will-come-as-open-source\/\">Windows 10: PowerToys will come as Open Source<\/a>). More information can be found in the articles linked at the end of this blog.<\/p>\n<p>(PowerToys Settings)<\/p>\n<p>The PowerToys known from Windows 9x are also available in the version for Windows 10 Open Source and free of charge.<\/p>\n<h2>Update to Windows PowerToys 0.18<\/h2>\n<p>The announcement was made on Mai 19, 2020, during BUILD 2020, by developer Clint Rutkas \u2013 here is his tweet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Today we shipped <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PowerToys?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PowerToys<\/a> 0.18.0 today. We added in PowerToys Run, Keyboard remapper, and as always, fixed a lot of bugs :) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sEKRCKTYVC\">https:\/\/t.co\/sEKRCKTYVC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MSBuild?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MSBuild<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PSuKziGMTy\">pic.twitter.com\/PSuKziGMTy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Clint Rutkas (@ClintRutkas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClintRutkas\/status\/1262774649617649664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The new version comes with PowerToys Run and a Keyboard manager. Here is a brief description:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PowerToys Run, the new application launcher (use alt-space to activate). It's designed to replace the existing Win + R shortcut and allows a quick search for apps and files across Windows.<\/li>\n<li>The Keyboard Manager (KBM) is a keyboard remapper that allows a user to redefine keys on their keyboard (ex. swapping the letter A and D) as well as shortcuts (Ctrl+C to Windows+C). You can use these remappings as long as KBM is enabled and PowerToys is running in the background. Details may be <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/PowerToys\/tree\/master\/src\/modules\/keyboardmanager\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">found here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Within this version there is also an migrating to the new settings system. And it's also the first time Microsoft will test out the auto-updating system. The details including the download can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/PowerToys\/releases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this GitHub page<\/a>. The Verge has published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/5\/19\/21262060\/microsoft-windows-10-launcher-powertoy-spotlight-alfred-download-build\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this article<\/a> with a few more details about the new features. An overview of all PowerToys features may be found <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/PowerToys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Similar articles:<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2019\/09\/05\/windows-10-erste-open-source-powertoys-freigegeben\/\">Windows 10: First Open Source PowerToys released<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2019\/10\/30\/powertoys-v0-12-beta-freigegeben\/\">PowerToys v0.12 Beta released<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2019\/11\/02\/powertoys-v0-13-released\/\">PowerToys v0.13 released<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2019\/12\/02\/powertoys-0-14-0-verfgbar\/\">PowerToys 0.14.0 released<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2019\/12\/06\/powertoys-0-14-1-verfgbar\/\">PowerToys 0.14.1 released<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2020\/01\/22\/windows-10-powertoys-get-quicklauncher\/\">Windows 10: PowerToys get QuickLauncher<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2020\/03\/04\/powertoys-0-15-0-released\/\">PowerToys 0.15.0 released<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2020\/04\/01\/windows-10-powertoys-version-0-16-freigegeben\/\">Windows 10: PowerToys Version 0.16 released<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2020\/04\/07\/windows-powertoys-0-16-1-released\/\">Windows PowerToys 0.16.1 released<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2020\/04\/30\/powertoys-0-17-with-auto-update-released\/\">PowerToys 0.17 with Auto Update released<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]Microsoft released version 0.18 of PowerToys for Windows 10 users a few hours ago. These tools are free and offer additional features for Windows 10. The new version 0.18 includes the new Run launcher. Addendum: Clint Rutkas has announced, that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2020\/05\/20\/powertoys-0-18-with-run-launcher-released\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1547,2],"tags":[2162,76],"class_list":["post-14500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","category-windows","tag-powertoys","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35523,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14500\/revisions\/35523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}