There’s a new vesion of PowerToys out and available. Interestingly, PowerToys v0.94 reports shortcut conflicts. Amusingly, most (or all) of those originate from PowerToys itself, as you can see in the lead-in screencap. I tend to fix those by adding one of <Ctrl>, <Alt> or <Shift> to conflicting definitions, where no new conflicts get introduced thereby.
It’s kind of handy that this new version reports “Shortcut conflicts” on its default “What’s new” page. Note that conflicts occur with pre-defined System shortcuts, so related PowerToys items (e.g. Crop and Lock, Advanced Pase, Always on Top, and Color Picker) MUST be changed to resolve them.
If PowerToys v0.94 Reports Shortcut Conflicts, Fix ‘Em!
If you click on the “Shortcut conflicts” item in What’s New (upper right), you’ll produce the report shown in the lead-in screencap. Or something like it, as your local definitions may vary. You can edit these definitions simply by clicking the edit (pencil) icon to the right of each shortcut. Here’s what I wound up with after fixing things:
- Changed to Winkey-Alt-Shift-T (Activation, Crop and Lock)
- Changed to Winkey-Alt-Shift-V (Activation, Advanced Paste)
- Changed to Alt-Shift-C (Activation, Color Picker)
- Changed to Alt-Shift-T (Activation, Always on Top)
Once you find a shortcut sequence that isn’t already taken, use the Save button to enshrine it in your shortcut definitions. To check shortcuts for PowerToys, visit their specific pages via PowerToys settings. Alas, I haven’t found a clever way to list customizations like the foregoing ones in the preceding bulleted list just yet.
That’s a task for me to tackle in my “spare time, ” I guess. Here in Windows-World, it’s always something. At least I’ve fixed my shortcut conflicts now… And the new 0.94 version seems to be quite solid otherwise as well — IMO, anyway.
