microsoft / microsoft/PowerToys
PowerToys stops working - Module Keyboard Manager - Remap a shortuc
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- C
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Description
### Microsoft PowerToys version
0.99.1
### Installation method
PowerToys auto-update
### Area(s) with issue?
Keyboard Manager
### Steps to reproduce
With PowerToys running, sometimes I cannot use the shortcuts configured to send text to a program, Run Windows or anywhere else.
PowerToys still running, with no erros.
To solve this I have to close the PowerToys from the taskbar icon and the run it again from Start button
Can't find any behavior to reproduce this problem, but started after updating to this version 0.99.1, previous version didn't had this issue.
### ✔️ Expected Behavior
_No response_
### ❌ Actual Behavior
_No response_
### Upload Bug Report ZIP-file
[PowerToysReport_2026-05-18-10-05-16.zip](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/28056556/PowerToysReport_2026-05-18-10-05-16.zip)
### Additional Information
Windows 11 Enterprise
25H2
Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.297.0
64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Administrator user like
English
### Other Software
_No response_
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start with the attached PowerToysReport ZIP and the Keyboard Manager reproduction steps. Investigate the intermittent loss of configured shortcuts in PowerToys 0.99.1 on Windows 11, using the report and the prior-version comparison as context. Done means the configured shortcuts continue working without closing and relaunching PowerToys.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- desktop, operating-systems, tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100