Windows PowerToys Update Finally Adds This Cool Trick You've Been Wanting

There's little argument that although its inner workings are quite solid and speedy, Windows 11's UX choices are often best described as schizophrenic. One day Microsoft adds a useful feature, only to add yet another Edge-begging pop-up the next. Thankfully, some teams in the company are much more focused, like the folks working on the PowerToys utility.

PowerToys was already handy at launch, but it's grown in utility exponentially in the past few years with continued development. Its latest upgrade to version 0.94, released today, adds a search function for PowerToys' settings -- a very welcome addition, given how many handy features the utility now contains. This revision also fixes a long-standing annoyance: keyboard shortcuts getting doubled up between Windows features and PowerToys. There's now a handy UI that shows you shortcut conflicts with an option to immediately edit them.

In a blog post, the PowerToys ...