If you haven’t tried PowerToys—Microsoft’s official add-on pack that gives Windows dozens of extra features—you really should. I’m a huge fan of the FancyZones tool that lets you customize Windows’ snap functionality. But a big update is coming to the fan-favorite program: an option to automatically shift between light and dark modes in Windows 11.
That’ll arrive in PowerToys version 0.95, according to Niels Laute, Windows Platform Senior Product Manager. He said the feature will arrive next month (October 2025), along with a revamped user interface for the Keyboard Manager tool. The option to automatically shift between light and dark modes according to a user’s set schedule is something that’s oddly missing, considering how deeply integrated the light and dark modes are in Windows and most major software programs at this point. The developer update was spotted by The Verge.
In the meantime, version 0.94 adds several smaller tweaks to PowerToys, most notably a search bar that lets you find specific tools and settings in PowerToys itself. Since the PowerToys application now includes more than two dozen separate tools/sections and hundreds of individual settings, it’s a welcome addition. Other changes include a shortcut conflict manager and new options for the Mouse Pointer Crosshairs tool. You can download the latest version of PowerToys from GitHub.