PowerToys now packs a handy color picker to grab any hue from your screen

Your world is now your oyster. So long as that the world is your monitor, and colors are the oyster.

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What you need to know

PowerToys is one of those handy tools from Microsoft that just keeps on getting better, and that remains true with its latest update. This update comes in at version 0.20, and it adds a color picker to the mix, along with some new features for FancyZones and file explorer rendering. There are also some smaller tweaks related to PT Run and Keyboard manager.

Here’s a full look atwhat’s newin PowerToys version 0.20:

If you’ve been looking for an easy way to do normally complex things in Windows, PowerToys is full of a bunch of useful tools to help you do so. FancyZones lets you create dedicated zones on your monitor to snap windows into, for example. Another tool makes it super easy to batch rename files or resize images. For more, you can check outPowerToys on GitHub.

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