Security News > 2021 > April > Microsoft PowerToys now requires Windows 10 1903 and later
Microsoft released PowerToys v0.37.0 yesterday with minor improvements and a significant change - it now requires a minimum version of Windows 10 1903.
For those unfamiliar with Microsoft PowerToys, they are a set of small freeware utilities created by Windows developers to add extra functionality to Windows 10 or solve everyday tasks.
Yesterday, Microsoft released PowerToys v0.37.0, which focuses on the Keyboard Manager and PowerRename PowerToys and minor fixes to other tools.
"Hello #PowerToys 0.37.0. Big efforts are keyboard manager is now an independent exe, small new PowerRename feature, bug fixes. We did increase min version of Win10 to 1903 until we can adopt WinUI 3," tweeted Microsoft PowerToys lead Clint Rutkas.
Doing so will allow PowerToys to operate again Windows 10 1809 and later.
You can download the PowerToys v0.37.0 installer from the project's Github repository.
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