

However, this is currently only supported by a handful of modern Samsung Galaxy devices.

One significant change is the removal of the Your Phone 'Phone Screen' feature's dependency on Bluetooth Low Energy connectivity. This OS preview introduces a number of useful sounding features. In the intro I mentioned Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19013. Last but not least it is good, for the eyes, to see that Microsoft's developers have started to add PowerToys support for Windows Dark Mode. As well as a pretty essential update making the utility configuration tool multi-monitor aware, Microsoft says that it targeted globalization bugs, and corrected other high priority issues. This is a "window manager that's designed to make it easy to arrange and snap windows into efficient layouts for your workflow". Microsoft's FancyZones has been improved. So it is nice to have an official app for this task, for next time I need to rename oodles of files. I've used freeware and similar apps for this kind of job before but that was so long ago the apps might be incompatible / no longer available, or whatever.

Via its UI (pictured above) it provides search and replace functions, various filtering options, and a handy preview file list window. As its name would suggest PowerRename is a utility which allows users to batch rename groups of files. New in this release are PowerRename, FancyZones multi-monitor support, and some Dark Mode support. PowerToys v0.12 were introduced as part of the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19013 (for Windows Insiders in the Fast ring) but they warranted their own Microsoft blog post and are available separately, to non-Insiders, via this GitHub page. They became so popular and were so useful that many of these UI development afterthoughts became staples of Windows OS updates.

They were dubbed PowerToys as they were extensions to the utility and control panel style software already built-into the OS and Microsoft thought they would be played with by Power Users. The iconic utilities were originated as a concept in the Windows 95 era. Microsoft has released PowerToys v0.12 and the software is available immediately via GitHub.
