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This PowerToys update just ended Windows hotkey conflicts for good - and more


Microsoft updated PowerToys with several new features, and soon it will add scheduled light and dark modes.

Lance Whitney / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET PowerToys now offers a way to resolve hotkey conflicts. From the screen, though, I could easily change the default hotkey for the two PowerToys tools to a different combination, thereby resolving the conflict. Screenshot by Lance Whitney/ZDNET"With so many shortcuts in PowerToys, it's easy to run into conflicts," Niels Laute, a Microsoft senior product manager, wrote in a blog post on Tuesday.

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