PowerToys 0.99 has landed with two headline additions — Power Display and Grab and Move — alongside smaller improvements that make the utility suite meaningfully more capable for power users. Here is a detailed breakdown of what is new and whether it is worth updating immediately.
Power Display: Fine-Grained Monitor Management
Power Display extends what Windows natively offers for multi-monitor setups. The core problem it solves: Windows has no built-in way to quickly change the resolution, refresh rate, or HDR state of individual monitors without navigating through Display Settings. For users who switch between work and gaming configurations — or who run mixed refresh rate setups — this friction adds up.
Power Display adds a system tray interface where each connected display is listed with quick-access controls for resolution and refresh rate. More usefully, it supports saved display profiles that can switch all monitors to a defined configuration with a single click or keyboard shortcut. A gaming profile at 1440p 165Hz with HDR enabled and a work profile at 1440p 60Hz with HDR off can coexist and be toggled in seconds.
For PC builders who run dual monitors with different specs — a primary gaming monitor and a secondary productivity display — this removes a persistent daily friction point.
Grab and Move: Cross-Monitor Window Control
Grab and Move addresses a different frustration: moving application windows between monitors or snapping them into specific positions across a complex multi-monitor layout. Windows Snap Layouts help within a single screen but do not extend intuitively across monitor boundaries.
With Grab and Move, you define custom zones that sit at the edges of your displays. Dragging a window to a zone boundary snaps it into that position. The interaction model is similar to FancyZones (another PowerToys utility) but focused specifically on the transition points between monitors.
For ultrawide plus secondary monitor setups, this is particularly useful. You can define a strip zone at the right edge of the ultrawide that auto-snaps windows to the secondary display when dragged there.
Other Notable Changes in 0.99
Beyond the two headliners, this release includes Text Extractor improvements for complex document layouts, a MouseHighlighter update with smoother animation at high refresh rates, and performance fixes to the PowerToys Run launcher that reduce its response latency.
The Hosts File Editor module has also been updated to handle Windows 11 stricter file permission requirements, which caused silent failures for some users on 24H2.
Should You Update?
PowerToys updates through the Microsoft Store or via winget and are generally low-risk. If you run a multi-monitor setup, the Power Display profiles feature alone justifies the update. If you are on a single display, 0.99 is a solid maintenance release without a compelling reason to rush.