Security News > 2022 > January > Microsoft PowerToys adds Mouse and File Explorer utilities
Microsoft has updated PowerToys with three new utilities, including a new mouse crosshair tool to quickly find the pointer on the screen and two new File Explorer add-ons.
The new version also adds preview support for more than 150 developer and 3D file formats through two new File Explorer add-ons.
PowerToys version 0.55.0 is available now through the Microsoft Store or from Microsoft's PowerToys GitHub page.
In October, Microsoft also added a Find My Mouse tool utility that helps quickly find the mouse pointer by dimming the screen and showing a spotlight surrounding the mouse cursor when hitting the CTRL key twice.
PowerToys also comes with a customizable Mouse Highlighter utility that automatically highlights mouse clicks.
While initially a collection of tiny freeware utilities created by Windows developers as side projects during the Windows 95 era, PowerToys was revived in September 2019 when Microsoft released the first version of modern PowerToys as an open-source toolset allowing Windows users to speed up various tasks, from rearranging windows to file renaming.