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Since Microsoft's Windows was given to India for development, BUG began to fly everywhere, because the system is too huge, and it is not easy to coordinate various departments within Microsoft. In order to enhance the function, simply, the product manager of Microsoft headquarters Clint Rutkas, the organization created PowerToys, you Windows can not add the function, I PowerToys first to get on, as Clint Rutkas to do a better and stronger Windows dream.

As the update pace of the Windows system becomes faster, it also adds a lot of functions to the update. Do you feel that in the past two years, Microsoft-related software updates and research and development have become faster than before?

The new version was updated the day before yesterday, coupled with the features that were not introduced before, this article has put it together to introduce some of the practical features that have been updated recently.

With the recent update of PowerToys, one of the features that we are more concerned about is the addition of a function called file Locksmith. We all know that when you want to delete and move files on your computer, sometimes you will pop up a prompt that the file is occupied, but it does not specify which software is occupying it.

If you go to Baidu to search, you will find ways to share: either manually search in the task manager, or download some unpopular third-party software and unlocking tools.

Now that PowerToys has this retrieval function, it is easy to see which software has locked the files in the background.

It is also very easy to use. Select the file or folder you want to view, and the right-click menu will add a "what is using this file?" Button, click will automatically query which files are occupied, and provide a button to end the corresponding process.

After many people have used it, the first reaction is, why not integrate this function directly into the system?

In addition to file locking, a new Hosts file editing function has been added. Recently, when Google translators voluntarily withdrew from the country not long ago, the Hosts file was out of circle. You can modify this file to make the translation function effective. Friends who are more proficient in computer and mobile phones should know how to find the location of this file quickly. If you are a novice, you will struggle for a while.

Now using this editing tool, you can add and delete directly in the software, and also provide an entrance to open the source file. If you want to open and close it, just use the button. It's only enough for now, and it's perfect to add import from the clipboard and version switching.

Each modified address can also be annotated for later review.

Right click, you can adjust the order of entries, there is also a Ping access detection function, can access the corresponding IP at a glance.

As you can see in the recent PowerToys update log, there are a lot of optimizations for FancyZones, fixed the exit logic when editing the software display area, and now you don't have to worry about the flicker caused by the operation.

In addition, the running logic under multi-screen is optimized, and the display problem where the window is displayed in white in the Windows11 virtual machine is fixed.

This function is quite good, if you have two screens or larger screens, then you can use FancyZones to divide your screen into many areas, and then you can use keyboard shortcuts to do a variety of arrangement and window switching operations, such as the following.

With the development of this function, it has become more powerful: moving across screens, using under virtual desktops, quickly switching layouts, automatically resizing with resolution, free window control, and so on.

After these windows are configured, it doesn't mean that they will be gone once. FancyZones will remember the state you set, even if you turn off the software, the next time you open it will be the same as your configuration. If you are the kind of "overclocking player" who likes multithreading, take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with this feature and you will complain: wonderful.

Another thing is the character recognition that comes with PowerToys. The speed of this character recognition is very fast, but the correct rate is sometimes more metaphysical, and the recognition of symbols is also worrying, the vertical separator can be recognized as horizontal.

Although it can be repaired, it is not recommended to be used as a major identification tool. Since this function is based on the OCR language pack already installed on your computer, if you want to recognize other fonts, you can add other languages with character recognition to the computer language settings.

Demonstrate in Japanese, before adding the language pack, the Japanese evening good evening, identified as the following, the characters will be transformed into similar Chinese-Erzuo pills.

After installing the language pack, you will be able to identify it correctly.

Another function is the screen ruler, which will be of some help to friends who want to learn UI interface design. When turned on, you can detect the pixel distance between the two elements, whether it is a picture or software.

It is convenient to use the mouse wheel to adjust the tolerance of color recognition so that the measuring distance can be penetrated or limited to the boundary you want.

Using crosshair mode may cause interference, or you can switch to wide-height mode separately.

The addition of all these features makes PowerToys more interesting and practical, and I wonder if it will become a powerful toolset in the future. About everyone's complaint, this software is so easy to use, why not add it to the official system options, is there a possibility that these functions are all due to PowerToys is open source, in fact, users add their own functions, there are many users to improve, take a look at the update log in the thank you list.

After all, to put it jokingly: the official BUG11 is still very busy.

This article comes from the official account of Wechat: fruit core shelling (ID:ghpymwx). Author: fruit core.

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