Cannot launch Zone Editor at all

Apologies if this is a duplicate – I search the issues for Zone Editor and could not find anything comparable.

Environment

Windows build number: Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18363.815] PowerToys version: 0.16.1, 0.16.0, 0.15.2 PowerToys module: Fancy Zones Zone Settings: {"app-zone-history":[],"devices":[],"custom-zone-sets":[]}

Steps to reproduce

1. Install Power Toys
2. Enable Fancy Zones
3. Navigate to Settings > Fancy Zones > Edit Zones or press Win + `

I’ve tried all combinations of the PowerToys versions listed above along with running as Administrator, rebooting, using the msi or msix installers, and also deleting the zone settings.

Potentially unrelated: the Window Walk also only works for a few seconds at startup before the hotkey does nothing.

Expected behavior

The Zone Editor window is displayed allowing me to interactively configure what will become the Zone settings JSON file.

Actual behavior

Cursor gets a loading spinner while in Task Manager a process named Windows Problem Reporting appears briefly. The PowerToys Settings does not crash and remains functioning normally.

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Are there logs or something that I can provide that contain the result of the crash?

[enricogior]

Closing this as dup of https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/707 We should add it to the readme or to a pinned “known issue” tracker.

[enricogior]

@jzelinskie thanks for the investigation.

it looks like this doesn’t support multiple displays either

FancyZones does support multi monitor, it’s the UI that is not ideal for it and we will change it. You can find information on how to use it on multi monitor here: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/master/src/modules/fancyzones/README.md