UPDATE 1/21: We are starting to roll out Cumulative Update Build 22538.1010 (KB5010882). This update does not include anything new and is designed to test our servicing pipeline for builds in the Dev Channel.
Fixed an issue where certain characters (like characters with umlauts) weren’t allowed when naming your PC in OOBE, even though it was allowed in Settings after finishing OOBE.
Addressed an issue which was leading to OneNote crashing in recent builds when trying to open pages with inserted PDFs.
Mitigated an issue that was leading to unresponsive UI after enabling HDR.
[File Explorer]
Fixed an issue that could lead to explorer.exe crashing when dragging and dropping a file out of a zipped folder in File Explorer.
The context menu in File Explorer now shows a CTRL + Shift + C keyboard shortcut next to Copy as Path.
[Input]
Fixed an issue which was leading to the cursor unexpectedly disappearing in certain apps.
Fixed a crash in Quick Settings when opening the input switcher from there.
Addressed an issue which was leading to the candidate window customization being unexpectedly missing from Personalization > Text Input for Chinese Simplified IME users sometimes.
[Taskbar]
We fixed the issue causing two arrows to appear for the hidden icon flyout and the Quick Settings icons, and the date and time were misaligned.
[Settings]
Mitigated an issue leading to Settings getting stuck in a suspended state and couldn’t be launched.
If you’ve opted to turn off the startup sound, that setting should persist upgrades going forward.
Fixed the icon in the notification that shows if you have chosen to postpone finishing setting up your device.
Tabbing through Quick Settings should no longer set focus to an invisible element.
Fixed an issue that was sometimes causing the media controls above Quick Settings to be off-screen.
[Windowing]
The underline indicating the active desktop in Task View will now follow your chosen accent color instead of being blue.
Mitigated a WER issue which was leading to DWM crashes in recent flights.
NOTE: Some fixes noted here in Insider Preview builds from the active development branch may make their way into the servicing updates for the released version of Windows 11 that became generally available on October 5th, 2021.
Due to builds in the Dev Channel being irrelevant to the features and improvements included within them, the branch builds are released from has changed to NI_RELEASE. For more on the approach to how things are released to the Dev Channel, What’s coming for the Windows Insider Program in 2022.
See the blog post for information on the many features as well as changes and improvements included in the build.
Fixes:
[General]
Fixed a recurring backgroundTaskHost.exe some Insiders were experiencing.
Fixed an issue leading to auto HDR not activating as expected in certain games.
Mitigated an lsass.exe crash that was resulting in some Insiders seeing crashes on the login screen in recent flights.
Addressed an issue that was leading to noticeably distorted audio for audio devices connected using the Xbox Wireless Adapter in recent flights.
[Taskbar]
Task View should no longer crash if you hold CTRL while hovering over it.
Dragging a file across the taskbar on secondary monitors should no longer cause an explorer.exe crash.
[File Explorer]
Updated the Storage Usage button in the Properties dialog for a disk to now be called Details and a little wider, to accommodate for languages where the button text was getting truncated.
Improved the performance of deleting files in Recycle Bin.
Fixed the Blu-ray icon so it aligns with the other drive and volume icons.
[Input]
Addressed an issue where the IME candidate window was unexpectedly not following your preference of light or dark mode.
Fixed an issue leading to some elements of the voice typing settings flyout to be invisible in dark mode.
The IME candidate window should appear as expected now in the username field of a UAC prompt.
Updated the term “Halfwidth alphanumeric / Direct Input” to just say “Halfwidth Alphanumeric” in the Japanese IME context menu.
Fixed an issue where after typing hiragana in Kana-input mode if there was a half-width alphabet character before the hiragana in composition it would unexpectedly become full-width.
Addressed a rare issue where the input switcher might unexpectedly list the same entry twice.
Mitigated an issue leading to an unexpected black box that was appearing in the input switcher sometimes.
Updated the input switcher so it can get a bit taller now for people with more than 4 keyboards.
Fixed a memory leak in the input switcher leading to explorer.exe crashing after repeated rapid use.
Fixed an explorer.exe crash when clicking on More Keyboard Settings in the input switcher.
Fixed an issue where the emoji panel might show “you’re offline” even though you had network connectivity.
Fixed an issue where the multiply emoji and counterclockwise arrows button emoji were displaying the design for the wrong emoji.
Updated the preview in the Personalization > Text input Settings page to reflect your desktop wallpaper rather than the default.
Did some work to improve reliability of the Stop media key when media is playing.
[Voice access]
We fixed a Visual C++ Runtime mismatch causing voice access to not run on some PCs.
[Search]
Fixed a high hitting search crash.
Clicking the search box in Start will now immediately switch over to Search without showing the Search window animate in upwards, just like when you press the Windows key and start to type.
[Settings]
Addressed an issue where Narrator wasn’t reading the elements of System > Storage correctly.
Fixed the broken “size and theme” link under Time & Language > Typing > Touch keyboard.
Did some work to help improve performance when updating accent color or mode.
We made a change to help reduce clipping in combo boxes in Settings for certain languages and text sizes.
Fixed an issue that was causing the icons on the IME settings pages to sometimes be white on white.
Mitigated an issue leading to the install button having truncated text in some languages when previewing fonts.
Fixed an underlying crash that was causing the preview video on System > Display > HDR to be distorted sometimes.
Addressed an underlying issue that could make Settings crash when you scrolled the window.
Adjusted the Wi-Fi icon in the Wi-Fi section of Quick Settings so that the lock shown for a secured network now has a small separation from the Wi-Fi strength, making it a bit easier to distinguish.
[Windows Spotlight]
Updated the name of Spotlight collection to be Windows Spotlight, so it’s consistent with the Lock screen.
Made a change to help make Windows Spotlight update images more reliably.
Rather than showing a solid color background, if for some reason new Windows Spotlight images aren’t available for the desktop, it will now fall back to showing the default Windows Spotlight background image (Whitehaven Beach).
Right-clicking on “Learn more about this picture” for Windows Spotlight on the desktop will now always show all options, just greyed out if they’re not currently available.
When hovering over “Learn more about this picture”, the tooltip should now more consistently align with the current image.
[Windowing]
Addressed an issue that was causing the minimize, maximize, and close buttons in File Explorer and some other apps to be invisible in certain cases.
Mitigated an issue leading to performance impact when dragging windows with acrylic and other scenarios with acrylic.
You should no longer see a briefly visible yellow border when taking screenshots.
We’ve made some improvements to address feedback that windows were repositioning unexpectedly.
[Network]
Did some work to address an issue that might cause certain VPN connections to fail. If you continue experiencing issues, please file feedback with a capture of the issue under Network and Internet > Connecting with a VPN client.
Fixed an issue that was leading to decreased Wi-Fi speeds after waking your PC from sleep in the previous flight.
[Narrator]
When backspacing, Narrator will now more consistently announce when you’re deleting characters with backspace.
Fixed an issue causing Narrator not to read selected text in the Feedback Hub.
NOTE: Some fixes noted here in Insider Preview builds from the active development branch may make their way into the servicing updates for the released version of Windows 11 that became generally available on October 5th, 2021.
Improved login performance for a specific case where someone had a very large temp folder.
Fixed a few issues impacting explorer.exe reliability.
Updated the volume flyout when using the hardware keys on your keyboard to account for cases where there is no working audio.
[Taskbar]
The auto-hide taskbar will now stay expanded while you use Task View to switch Desktops.
When dragging a file or app to the taskbar, we’ve updated the message next to the mouse showing what is and is not supported to now respond to dark mode and contrast themes.
Fixed a cyclical explorer.exe crash that was happening for people using the French (Canada) display language, related to the battery icon tooltip.
Updated the mute icon in the taskbar so that the tooltip now gives a hint for the keyboard shortcut (WIN + Alt + K).
[Tablet-optimized taskbar] NOTE: These fixes will only show if tablet-optimized taskbar is enabled on your device. Please see above for details on the tablet-optimized taskbar, which is beginning to roll out to Windows Insiders and not yet available for everyone.
The top border line of taskbar now extends across the entire taskbar instead of stopping just before the system tray area.
The button styling for the hidden icons flyout is now consistent with the design of the rest of the system tray buttons.
The taskbar should no longer flicker when switching input methods or during other scenarios where system tray icons are added and removed.
[Start menu]
Fixed an issue that was causing the Start menu to not open consistently with the new touch gesture where you swipe up from the bottom of the screen.
When recommended items are newly added or removed, their icons will now be animated to fade in and out.
The sleep icon in the power menu is no longer incorrectly showing as a bell.
Fixed an issue causing the apostrophe in the power button tooltip to not display correctly.
Names of apps in folders no longer appear blurred briefly when opening folders in Start.
Fixed a crash some people were encountering when trying to share an app from the All apps list.
[File Explorer]
Fixed an issue where the OneDrive icon wouldn’t show up in the File Explorer command bar sometimes when it should have.
Removed a random white dot that was appearing in the context menu when right clicking on File Explorer’s title bar in dark mode.
[Input]
Made some improvements to the emoji search results based on feedback, including generally putting a stronger preference in the search results to the exact name match of emoji (for example, the balloon emoji first when searching for balloon) over the various other emoji that might be returned for those keywords.
Fixed an issue causing Insiders to not see the updated Korean IME design in the previous flight.
Fixed a couple issues with the coloring in the IME candidate window.
Mitigated a crash that was happening when attempting to access the Personalization > Text Input in Settings after upgrading if you had customized your touch keyboard appearance.
Addressed an explorer.exe crash that could happen when switching input methods.
Improved the performance of launching the input switcher for the first time.
If you have “Show accent color on Start and Taskbar” enabled in Color Settings, the input switcher background color will now follow that preference.
Fixed the Typing link name in the touch keyboard settings options, so it matches the Settings page that opens.
System > Clipboard in Settings now explains why the “Sync across your devices” option could be grayed out.
Added text to the emoji panel to help explain certain scenarios where emoji search results aren’t supported.
[Search]
We’ve done some more work to reduce the chance that the recent searches flyout could get stuck on the screen.
We’ve addressed an issue in recent Dev Channel builds leading to some Insiders experiencing an issue where search would open, but only show a magnifying glass in the window and not display any results. If you continue experiencing issues, please file feedback under Desktop Environment > Search with details about what exactly you are seeing.
[Settings]
Addressed an issue where pop up dialogs (for example, when adding an optional feature, or when configuring your IP address) in Settings were launching left aligned instead of centered.
Addressed an issue where RSAT: DNS Server Tools would show that it was installed in Optional Features if you attempted to install it but wouldn’t actually be installed.
Fixed an issue where Display settings might not show the option to change refresh rate when your PC was in portrait mode.
Settings should no longer crash when attempting to uninstall apps via Apps > Installed apps when your User Account Control settings are set to Always Notify.
Windows Update > Update History should show history for feature updates again with this build.
Mitigated an issue related to the Windows Update page that could make Settings hang.
The link to give feedback in Settings > System > Notifications will now take you directly to notifications feedback section in the Feedback Hub.
Fixed an issue preventing you from adding Bluetooth or Cast to the Quick Settings flyout.
The media controls above Quick Settings should now show when you open media or hide when you close media more reliably.
Fixed an issue where the number in the volume popup that opens when you use your hardware keys didn’t match the volume number in Quick Settings.
Improved the positioning of the Accessibility flyout above the button on the login screen.
Fixed an issue that was occasionally causing certain Bluetooth devices to not auto-connect after powering on or resuming your PC from sleep/hibernate.
[Widgets]
With the taskbar left-aligned, information such as temperature is now shown.
Fixed an issue where Widgets weather info may have shown different information across a multi-monitor setup.
[Task Manager]
Did some work to help address an issue where the navigation bar in the updated Task Manager design was showing black glitches when you launched Task Manager from a minimized state.
[Windowing]
Fixed an issue that was preventing you from using the minimize, maximize, and close buttons on maximized apps (and other scenarios) because Notification Center had kept focus.
Did some work to improve the smoothness of the animation when invoking Task View using the 3-finger on screen gesture.
Improved general reliability of ALT + Tab to help address scenarios where it could get stuck.
Addressed an issue that was impacting the performance when using ALT + Tab, Task View or snap assist in recent builds.
Snap group titles should appear properly when using Windows with an Arabic or Hebrew display language now.
Made some refinements to the snap layouts invocation experience when moving a window to the top of the screen.
Fixed an issue where dragging a snapped window while snap assist is active would include a thumbnail of the dragged window.
When using the down arrow to navigate through app thumbnails in snap assist, it should cycle to the top now when you’ve reached the bottom row.
Fixed two crashes that could happen when using snap layouts on a secondary monitor or a portrait mode monitor.
Made the margins for snapping to the left and right side of the screen a little bigger.
Switching desktops using the keyboard shortcuts while the Start menu is open should no longer cause your desktop to unexpectedly switch back after closing Start.
[Network]
Added some text to show Disconnecting to communicate if work is in progress after you’ve clicked the Disconnect button in the VPN section of Quick Settings.
Fixed an issue where Managed VPN profiles with IPv4 routes specified might disconnect frequently.
[Narrator]
Narrator will no longer jump up to the search box in Start after using the power or account menus.
After switching to the All apps section of the Start menu, Narrator will now navigate to and read you app information correctly.
Narrator in Word online will now read the new line correctly when arrowing up and down between paragraphs.
Fixed an issue that was causing Narrator to stop reading or being able to move the cursor when entering tables in Microsoft Word.
Improved how Narrator reads content in the Accessibility flyout on the login screen.
[Other]
Fixed an issue that was causing the back button in the sign in window of certain apps to not to be visible when using a contrast theme.
NOTE: Some fixes noted here in Insider Preview builds from the active development branch may make their way into the servicing updates for the released version of Windows 11 that became generally available on October 5th, 2021.
See the referenced blog post for information about both new features as well as updated information about the Dev Channel.
Fixes:
[General]
Fixed an issue where users weren’t hearing the startup sound.
[Taskbar]
Using the taskbar to bring an already running app to the foreground should work more reliably now.
Fixed an issue where if you changed time zone the calendar flyout wouldn’t update to reflect a date change.
Using Narrator key plus Enter or Narrator touch gestures should now work to activate items in the taskbar now.
Mitigated an issue that was causing windows to be able to draw on top of the taskbar after dismissing one of the taskbar flyouts.
[Tablet-optimized taskbar]
NOTE: These fixes will only show if tablet-optimized taskbar is enabled on your device, which is beginning to roll out to Windows Insiders and not yet available for everyone.
The taskbar setting has been changed to “Optimize taskbar for touch interactions when this device is used as a tablet”.
We have improved mouse click reliability of system tray icons.
[Start menu]
Fixed an issue affecting the reliability of the Start menu opening.
Fixed an issue where dragging a pinned app icon between pages of pinned apps wasn’t working.
Addressed an alignment issue with the More button.
[File Explorer]
Clicking the buttons in the new OneDrive flyout should now bring those objects into foreground focus.
Star rating supported files (for example mp4 files) should work again now.
Fixed an issue that could cause explorer.exe to crash when opening the context menu sometimes.
Improved the performance of displaying the content in the Recycle Bin in cases where there were many files.
Addressed an underlying crash that was happening when trying to start a search from File Explorer, impacting the ability to search.
Fixed a rare issue for people with small screens where the context menu in File Explorer would animate in downwards, disappear, then immediately reappear animating upwards.
[Input]
Improved input switching responsiveness when using WIN + Space.
Fixed an issue which was leading to some Insiders seeing black text on a dark background in the input switcher.
Addressed an issue where the Japanese IME toolbar could become transparent, and the IME candidate window clipped or not displayed at all.
If you’re using the Japanese IME with a vertical candidate list, the text should now appear written in the correct direction.
Updated the icon used for hiding key press visuals in the touch keyboard when focus is set to a password field to help make it easier to understand.
Fixed an issue where the new “Press Backspace” command when voice typing wasn’t working in Japanese.
Mitigated an issue that was causing Narrator focus to get stuck in the wrong place after inserting an emoji and dismissing the emoji panel.
[Settings]
Items in the app list under Apps > Installed apps should no longer overlap each other.
Fixed an issue where it wasn’t possible to select the restart now button in Settings > Windows Update using touch.
[Windowing]
Explorer.exe shouldn’t crash anymore when dragging a window between monitors.
If you’re hovering over a Desktop thumbnail in Task View, the tooltip should now actually match the one you’re hovering over.
Fixed an issue where snap assist might unexpectedly trigger when you already had a window snapped in that area.
Improved reliability of invoking snap layouts at the top of the screen.
Task View should now successfully launch if you invoke it while the search flyout from the taskbar is open, rather than invoking and immediately dismissing.
[Voice access]
Fixed an issue that was causing Outlook to scroll to the beginning of your emails if you enabled voice access and started talking.
Button text in voice access will no longer be cut off when you’ve changed your text size.
Fixed an issue that was preventing voice access from launching on ARM64 devices.
Voice access will no longer turn on after you log in unless the voice access setting is also turned on.
[Live captions]
Live captions will now handle you switching audio devices more smoothly.
Changing the size of live captions will no longer cause white flashes in dark mode.
You can now search for live captions to find their page in Settings.
Accessibility home page in Settings now lists “live captions” under Captions.
Settings flyout can now be light-dismissed in the live captions window.
[Narrator]
Fixed an issue causing high CPU usage while using Narrator.
Narrator will now read out the theme as well as the selection state in Settings > Personalization > Text input > Theme.
When a dialog pops up, Narrator will now consistently announce that it’s reading from a dialog when reading its message.
When using Microsoft Edge’s History page, Narrator will now announce the name of the page and the focused element correctly.
Fixed an underlying issue which was impacting Narrator keyboard navigation in webview2 in certain apps.
Updated Braille display input and output table type dropdowns in Settings to have a default value now.
Fixed an issue that was causing Narrator to hang when using Norton Power Eraser.
If you Review > Check Accessibility in Excel, Narrator will now read the errors, warnings, tips & intelligent services section correctly.
[Task Manager]
The suspended and efficiency mode icons should no longer be clipped in Task Manager at high DPIs.
Fixed an issue where column preferences weren’t being preserved.
The default start page and always on top settings should work now.
When there’s nothing to show under the “…” menu, it won’t display now.
Mitigated a crash that was happening sometimes when trying to launch Task Manager.
Fixed an issue where Efficiency mode icons were missing on some child processes.
Fixed an issue where some settings options were not preserved.
Fixed an issue where Suspended and Efficiency mode icons were clipped when displayed on monitors with high DPI settings.
[Lock screen and logging in]
Fixed an issue causing the accessibility flyout on the Lock screen to flicker.
The accessibility flyout on the Lock screen’s location and spacing should now be centered and consistent with the design of other options on this screen.
Fixed the border of the accessibility flyout on the Lock screen to show correctly in high contrast mode.
Addressed an encoding issue in the message text when using a security key to login.
Mitigated an explorer.exe crash some Insiders were seeing when logging into their PC.
[Other]
Notification Center will now close when you start a focus session, and the focus timer opens instead of you having to dismiss it.
Fixed an issue which was impacting the ability of opening Quick Settings and Notification Center when animations were disabled.
Quick Settings and Notification Center should dismiss more reliably now if you had used a gesture to invoke them before trying to dismiss them.
Mitigated a bug check which was happening in the last few flights for Insiders with more than 8 monitors connected.
If you have pinned an app to the taskbar within Windows Sandbox, clicking the app to launch it will now actually work.
NOTE: Some fixes noted here in Insider Preview builds from the active development branch may make their way into the servicing updates for the released version of Windows 11 that became generally available on October 5th, 2021.
UPDATE 3/4: We are starting to roll out Cumulative Update Build 22567.100 (KB5012427). This update does not include anything new and is designed to test our servicing pipeline for builds in the Dev Channel.
UPDATE 3/7: We are starting to roll out Cumulative Update Build 22567.200 (KB5012432). This update does not include anything new and is designed to test our servicing pipeline for builds in the Dev Channel.
NOTE: Windows Insiders on Home edition will not be able to install the Build 22567.100 and Build 22567.200 updates.
The build includes the addition of Microsoft Family and ClipChamp as inbox apps. Additionally, Search Highlights will begin rolling out next week. See the blog post for additional information about the addition of the inbox apps, Search Highlights as well as changes and improvements.
Fixes:
[General]
Fixed an issue for Enterprise edition devices going through the setup experience (OOBE) where the network add screen was skipped on the first attempt.
Addressed an issue which was causing some Insiders to see a bug check with a CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED error in the previous build while attempting to do various things including logging in, opening outlook, and accessing network shares in File Explorer.
Mitigated an underlying issue that was leading to audio stutters and touchpad issues in the previous flight.
Addressed an explorer.exe crash Insiders were seeing in recent builds when attempting to use Windows Mixed Reality.
Fixed an issue with scroll bars not rendering appropriately on some Win32 applications.
Fixed another issue where users weren’t hearing the startup sound.
Images should no longer be backwards when using a lock screen slideshow with an Arabic or Hebrew display language.
[Taskbar]
We fixed the issue that was causing explorer.exe to crash if you right clicked on the Start button or used WIN + X.
Mitigated an explorer.exe hang that could happen in the last few flights related to the visual indicator in the taskbar when sharing a window in Microsoft Teams.
Adjusted the sensitivity so quickly sliding your mouse across the widgets icon on the path to an open flyout or menu will no longer make it dismiss.
Made a change to help address a memory leak in Shell Experience Host when repeatedly opening and closing the Notification Center.
Addressed a scenario where the Notification Center might not light dismiss if it was opened on top of certain apps.
Fixed an underlying issue when the display scaling was greater than 100% which was causing drag and drop in the taskbar to unexpectedly show that it wasn’t available.
[Tablet-optimized taskbar]
NOTE: These fixes will only show if tablet-optimized taskbar is enabled on your device, which is beginning to roll out to Windows Insiders and not yet available for everyone.
Improved reliability of taskbar auto-collapsing after launching an app.
Fixed several bugs related to the taskbar state change when disconnecting or reconnecting your keyboard.
Addressed positioning issues with the hidden icons button and flyout when using the Arabic or Hebrew display language.
[Start menu]
Improved how the “Pinned” header name is rendered in the Arabic display language.
[File Explorer]
Made some more improvements to help with context menu invocation performance.
Using the Filter option in Quick Access should work for images now.
Fixed an underlying issue causing the title bar in File Explorer when colored to not visually occupy the full area it was supposed if you maximized the File Explorer window.
Fixed an issue where if you had a folder selected in the navigation pane and right clicked another folder, options like Open in Windows Terminal would unexpectedly open the first folder.
“Pin to Quick Access” is now available in the command bar when a file in Recent Files in Quick Access is selected.
Fixed an issue preventing Narrator from reading in the Run dialog correctly in scan mode.
Narrator in scan mode will now read error messages in the Error List correctly in Visual Studio.
Errors while setting up a PIN in device setup (OOBE) will now be read out by Narrator.
Pitch range for Narrator natural voices has been adjusted to provide more levels of control.
Addressed an underlying issue which was leading to the pitch not changing when adjust Narrator’s speed in the 0 to 5 and 15 to 20 ranges in Narrator settings.
[Task Manager]
Improved visibility of content when a contrast mode is enabled.
Fixed an issue where critical system processes were unexpectedly displaying as background processes.
Addressed an issue that was causing random rows in the processes list to be unexpectedly written in black text when using dark mode.
Right clicking the Task Manager icon in the system tray should now actually show the context menu rather than a blank box.
Pressing Esc should no longer unexpectedly close Task Manager.
NOTE: Some fixes noted here in Insider Preview builds from the active development branch may make their way into the servicing updates for the released version of Windows 11 that became generally available on October 5th, 2021.
UPDATE 3/11: We are starting to roll out Cumulative Update Build 22572.100 (KB5012817). This update does not include anything new and is designed to test our servicing pipeline for builds in the Dev Channel.
UPDATE 3/14: We are starting to roll out Cumulative Update Build 22572.201 (KB5012886). This update does not include anything new and is designed to test our servicing pipeline for builds in the Dev Channel.
See the blog post for information about the Bug Bash and Changes and Improvements.
Fixes:
[General]
Addressed an issue which was causing Gaming Services to not work in the previous flight, leading to issues launching and installing some games.
Fixed a few high hitting explorer.exe crashes impacting recent flights during general usage of Windows.
Fixed a bug for Windows Insiders trying to upgrade directly from Windows 10 to recent Windows 11 Dev Channel builds.
[Tablet-optimized taskbar] NOTE: These fixes will only show if tablet-optimized taskbar is enabled on your device, which is beginning to roll out to Windows Insiders and not yet available for everyone.
It’s no longer necessary to swipe twice from the tablet-optimized taskbar to show Start or Quick Settings – once the taskbar is fully expanded, these will display with a continued swipe upwards.
Addressed an issue where using the swipe gesture to invoke the Start menu might bring it up on the wrong screen if an external monitor was connected.
Notifications will no longer overlap with the tablet-optimized taskbar.
Fixed an issue where if you invoked Task View the Desktops area might not render completely.
Middle clicking an app icon to launch a new instance of that app should work again now.
[Start menu]
Fixed an issue where Start’s folders were still showing animations even if you had animation effects disabled.
Mitigated an issue that was causing Start’s pinned and folders layouts to get reset to default after explorer.exe restarts.
Addressed an underlying issue leading to a transparent line along the side of the Start menu when changing your display’s scale.
[Focus]
You’ll now see the same breaks in focus sessions over 30 minutes started from the Notification Center as you would in sessions started from the Clock app.
If Do not disturb is turned on prior to starting a focus session, stopping the focus session will no longer turn off Do not disturb.
If you turn on a focus session, it will not be reset if you have to log out or reboot now.
Fixed an issue causing your keyboard focus to unexpectedly move to the top of Notification Center when ending a focus session below the calendar.
Fixed an issue that was preventing you from adding apps to the Settings > System > Notifications > Set priority notifications
[Input]
Fixed an issue where the enraged face emoji wasn’t searchable in Turkish using the word angry (kızgın). Please continue giving feedback about the emoji search results under Input and Language > Emoji Panel in the Feedback Hub!
Addressed an issue where the Japanese IME was unexpectedly switching to Katakana mode when focus was set to the UAC dialog.
Mitigated an issue recently where if you removed a third party IME from that language in Settings > Time & Language > Language & Region and didn’t uninstall it, it might still show in the input switcher.
Fixed an issue which was causing the mouse to be invisible in fields of certain apps, as well as some unexpected cursor related app crashes in recent flights.
Addressed an issue where the gesture for bringing in the Notification Center from the side of the screen wasn’t working for the Arabic or Hebrew display languages.
[Settings]
Fixed an issue for the header at the top of Network & Internet, where the chevron was backwards for Arabic and Hebrew display languages.
[Windowing]
If transparency is off under Settings > Personalization > Colors, the background of ALT + Tab will no longer be transparent.
If you drag a window to the top of the screen and then drag it back down, the dismiss animation for snap layouts will display more consistently now.
Made a small adjustment to fix an animation glitch when invoking snap layouts at the top of the screen.
Fixed an explorer.exe crash which was happening when dragging certain windows across snap layouts at the top of the screen.
Mitigated an issue which was causing Task View to appear unresponsive if you invoked Task View while snap assist was showing on screen.
Did some work to address an issue where ALT + Tab might get stuck open if you invoked it via a very quick gesture on your touchpad.
Fixed an explorer.exe crash that could happen when an app goes in and out of full screen mode.
[Network]
Mitigated an issue leading to cellular connections not working on certain devices in the last few builds.
Addressed an issue leading to Wi-Fi speed degradation in the previous flight.
[Voice access]
Fixed an issue that was causing the voice access banner to block the top row of desktop icons or the top of full-screen applications.
[Live captions]
Live captions will now show across your Desktops.
The “floating on screen” window position will now correctly show as selected in the settings flyout if the live captions window was forced to float (for example when using a full screen app).
The maximum height of the live captions window is now capped at 40% of monitor height.
Live captions will no longer crash upon shrinking a max height live captions window.
Toggling mono audio will no longer crash live captions.
[Narrator]
Fixed an issue with how Narrator read out collapsed sections in Settings > Accessibility > Narrator when navigating using Shift + Tab.
[Task Manager]
Fixed a few high hitting Task Manager crashes.
Fixed an issue where if focus was inside the Details page and you started typing, focus would stop moving through the processes list after the first letter.
If you’re using the Performance page in Summary view, the title bar of Task Manager will now be hidden.
[Other]
The percentage on the volume flyout that shows when using your hardware keys will now be centered in the design consistently.
Improved how keyboard focus and navigation works when moving through and closing the accessibility options on the Lock screen.
UPDATE 3/22: We are starting to roll out Cumulative Update Build 22579.100 (KB5013192). This update does not include anything new and is designed to test our servicing pipeline for builds in the Dev Channel.
Build 22581 is also being flighted to Windows Insiders in both the Dev and Beta Channels. Now that the Dev and Beta Channels are receiving the same builds, the limited window has opened for Insiders to switch channels if desired. Please read the details in the blog post about the limited window to switch channels and what happens when the window closes.
Changes and Improvements:
[General]
As described in our blog post here, Windows Insiders who use the Dev Channel may get to try out new ideas, longer lead features, and experiences that may never get released. In this build, a limited set of Insiders will see the first of these experimental features as we explore additional ways to help people discover and get quick access to content that they care about on the web with the Windows search box. If you see some of these concepts, be sure to let us know what you think via Feedback Hub (Win + F) and choose category Desktop Environment > Search.
[Taskbar]
The tablet-optimized taskbar feature which began rolling out with Build 22563 is now available to all Windows Insiders in the Dev and Beta Channels. As a reminder, this feature only works on devices that can be used as tablets. It does not work on laptops or desktop PCs.
Several fixes to taskbar such as the top border line now extending across the entire taskbar will be seen for everyone regardless of device type.
Keyboard focus and mouse hover for Win32 system tray icons and the “Show hidden icons” flyout have been updated to match the rest of the visual style of the taskbar. You may also notice that drag-and-drop is no longer supported to pin/unpin these items — you can show/hide these icons using by right clicking on the taskbar and choosing “Taskbar settings”. We also introduced an optional setting to hide the “show hidden icons” button completely, supporting users who want a simpler taskbar.
[Settings]
In Build 22557, we introduced new links in Settings to help customers give their PC a second life or recycle it. These links will disappear when upgrading to the latest builds (Build 22581 and higher) and will come back later.
Fixes
[Taskbar]
Made a fix for another issue causing taskbar previews to use the wrong fonts for the window title in languages other than English.
Drag and drop to taskbar should now work with auto-hidden taskbars.
When dragging something to pin to the taskbar, the message on the dragged item (for example, displaying an X if it’s not supported) will now have rounded corners.
Mitigated an issue where swiping to collapse the tablet-optimized taskbar might unexpectedly invoke the widgets board.
[Start menu]
Fixed an issue that was sometimes causing the search box in the top of Start to flicker.
Mitigated an underlying issue where if you swiped to open the All apps list, sometimes it would think that you’d tapped one of the letter headers in the All apps list.
Updated the context menu when right clicking a pinned app to say “Move to front” rather than “Move to top”, so it’s clearer what will happen.
[Focus]
A Clock app update (version 11.2202.24.0 and higher) has rolled out that fixes the issue where the Clock app was unable to update the Windows Focus state when configuring focus sessions in the Clock app.
[File Explorer]
Fixed a few cases where icons were missing next to entries in the context menu and command bar (for example, for the Next Desktop Background entry in the context menu if you right click the desktop while using a background slideshow).
Made some small adjustments to some of the icons used in the context menu and command bar, including the copy icon.
Folders whose only content is other folders will now show an icon with a slip of paper to indicate there is content inside the folder instead of an empty folder icon.
Addressed an underlying issue that could cause File Explorer to crash when using the Group By option.
[Input]
Fixed an issue where the conversion option in the Korean IME context menu wasn’t working.
Addressed an issue where the IME toolbar wasn’t showing/hiding correctly if you’d chosen to use the previous version of the Japanese IME.
Improved reliability of showing the touch keyboard on the login screen after tapping the PIN or password field after rebooting or upgrade.
Fixed an issue where some of the text in the touch keyboard was difficult to read when using the “Black and White” text input theme.
Made another fix for the “size and theme” link under Settings > Time & Language > Typing > Touch Keyboard not working.
Mitigated an issue where the touch keyboard was still showing the previous text candidates when you switched to voice typing.
The “Press Enter” and “Press Tab” commands should be working when using voice typing for Chinese (Traditional) now.
Fixed an issue where the 3 or 4 finger touchpad gesture for adjusting your audio volume level wasn’t working with certain paired Bluetooth audio devices.
[Settings]
Changes in Sounds to Program Events (for example, turning certain system sounds off) should persist on upgrade going forward.
Improved visibility of the battery icon in the Bluetooth section of Quick Settings when a contrast mode was enabled.
[Windowing]
If you set keyboard focus to Desktops in Task View, the border shown around the thumbnails will now have rounded corners.
Fixed an issue where hovering over the Task View icon on secondary monitors wouldn’t bring up the Desktops flyout when using the Arabic or Hebrew display language.
Fixed an issue where if you selected one of the Microsoft Edge tabs displayed in snap assist, the window would animate in from the wrong place.
Snap layouts should now minimize properly if you drag a window through the corner of snap layouts.
Fixed an issue where snap layouts would unexpectedly immediately display while dragging a window instead of just showing a hint for Insiders with an Arabic or Hebrew display language.
Addressed an issue where rotating your tablet before the previous screen rotation animation had finished would cause the rotation animation to abruptly cut out.
Mitigated an issue where using the 3-finger touch gesture to minimize all apps quickly could result in windows getting stuck in a shrunken state.
Reduced the size of the area above a notification where clicks weren’t being passed through to the underlying window so it’s the same sized area as the side of the notification.
Mitigated an issue leading to issues dragging the title bar of a maximized window with touch.
Fixed an issue where if the Open or Save dialog was open in an app, and you used ALT + Tab to switch away from the app and then back, keyboard focus might get lost.
[Voice access]
Fixed an issue that was causing voice access to crash when using commands to capitalize text in Office apps.
[Narrator]
Narrator will now correctly tell you if there is an image in table cells in Office apps.
When Narrator is reading with scan mode in Microsoft Edge, it will no longer stop reading when getting to some embedded links and buttons in the middle of text, like on nytimes.com.
[Task Manager]
Fixed an issue where tooltips did not accurately display the preferred visual setting when Task Manager is configured for dark mode.
Fixed an issue where Task Manager wasn’t populating the details of the Status column in the Startup Apps page.
[Other]
Fixed an issue that was causing the volume flyout that appears from using your hardware keys to be stuck on screen.
Mitigated an issue that could result in explorer.exe getting stuck and not fully initializing during first login.
Fixed a few more issues impacting explorer.exe reliability.
UPDATE 3/25: We are starting to roll out Cumulative Update Build 22581.100 (KB5013283). This update does not include anything new and is designed to test our servicing pipeline for builds in the Dev and Beta Channels.
UPDATE 3/29: We are starting to roll out Cumulative Update Build 22581.200 (KB5013296). This update does not include anything new and is designed to test our servicing pipeline for builds in the Dev and Beta Channels.
Build 22593 is being offered to both the Beta and Dev Channels. In addition, Insiders still have the option to switch channels if they wish.
Changes and Improvements:
[General]
[REMINDER] As described in our in our blog post here, Windows Insiders who use the Dev Channel may get to try out new ideas, longer lead features, and experiences that may never get released. In this build, a limited set of Insiders will see the first of these experimental features as we explore additional ways to help people discover and get quick access to content they care about on the web with the Windows search box. If you see some of these concepts, be sure to let us know what you think via Feedback Hub (Win + F) and choose category Desktop Environment > Search.
Updated WIN + X so that if Windows Terminal is installed the menu will include an entry for Terminal, and in cases where Windows Terminal is uninstalled it will display Windows PowerShell.
[File Explorer]
The default homepage of File Explorer is now called Home. The name Quick access has been repurposed for the pinned/frequent folders section and Pinned files is now called Favorites to align with Office and OneDrive.
Recent and pinned files displayed in Home are now searchable using the search box in File Explorer even if they are not local files, so you can find Office files recently shared with you.
[Input]
Microsoft Journal is now pinned by default on the Pen menu. If you don’t have the app installed, it will be installed from the Microsoft Store if chosen on the Pen menu.
If you press WIN + Z to open snap layouts, all the layouts will now show associated numbers, so you can quickly use the number keys to select the desired layout.
[Focus]
Added 5-minute increments for everything under a half hour to focus session length options.
[Windows Security]
Memory integrity is a feature in Windows 11 designed to prevent attacks from inserting malicious code into high-security processes. This feature can be found in Windows Security under Device Security > Core isolation. In the most recent Insider Preview builds, we will notify the user that this feature is currently turned off so that action can be taken for the user to turn it back on so that their device is as secure as possible against malicious attacks.
[Input]
Updated the ADLaM keyboard layout to add access to brackets and ADLaM Hamza. To access these:
Right Alt + \ will now input »
Right Alt + | will now input «
Right Alt + Shift + [ will now input {
Right Alt + Shift + ] will now input }
Ctrl + Shift + ; will now input the Hamza character
Updated the Pashto keyboard layout so that ې and ئ are now directly accessible on the keyboard. Accessing ظ and ط is now done by holding Shift and pressing the aforementioned letters, respectively.
Fixes
[General]
Fixed a few more issues impacting explorer.exe reliability in recent flights.
[Taskbar]
Fixed an issue where app icons were unexpectedly animating in from the upper left when launching a new app.
Improved the performance of rearranging taskbar icons.
Addressed an issue in the previous flight leading to duplicate app icons after closing and re-opening an app.
If you have a lot of apps open, the icons shouldn’t overlap the date and time on your secondary monitors anymore.
Taskbar will no longer disappear when you enter search over a full screen window.
Fixed an issue that was causing icon spacing to invert so that it was large when it should be small and vice versa when switching in and out of the tablet-optimized taskbar.
Tablet-optimized taskbar will now stay visible over full screen apps when expanded and only hide when you collapse it.
If you have multiple keyboards for your current language, the input indicator will now only show one row of text when the tablet-optimized taskbar is in a collapsed state, so that it doesn’t get clipped.
Fixed a crash that was causing taskbar to get stuck in the tablet-optimized taskbar view.
Settings will now remember your taskbar’s auto-hide setting more consistently.
Mitigated an issue where some app icons in the system tray which were expected to flash weren’t doing that.
Fixed an issue causing system tray icons to get stuck there even after you closed the application.
Made a fix for an issue where some mouse move events weren’t being passed to apps for icons in the system tray.
Addressed an issue leading to a decrease in Notification Center launch reliability in recent flights.
Mitigated an issue causing the Notification Center and its context to sometimes show the wrong color text for the system’s theme, making it unreadable.
Updated the names of some of the months in the Simplified and Traditional Chinese lunar calendar to be more accurate.
[Start menu]
Updated the design of the folders in Start so that they’re a little bigger, making it easier to see the app icons highlighted within the folder without having to open it.
Fixed an issue where if you created a folder in Start in the same position as a deleted folder, it would show the old name.
If you tab into naming a folder in Start with your keyboard, you can now tab back out instead of having to hit Esc.
Fixed an issue where when using the keyboard to select options following WIN + X didn’t work. And dismissing WIN + X should be more consistent now.
Fixed an issue where the prompt wasn’t coming to the front when launching Windows Terminal as an admin from Start’s right-click context menu (WIN + X).
The search icon in the taskbar should no longer unexpectedly flash when closing the Start menu.
[Search]
Made some improvements to help with search indexer thread and memory usage for users with a very high number of indexed items.
Fixed an issue impacting search reliability (where you would type into the search window or Start and nothing would happen) in recent flights.
Made another fix to help address an issue where the search searches flyout could get stuck on the screen in a transparent area.
[File Explorer]
Improved performance of loading Home in File Explorer.
Fixed a scaling issue where the context menu could be an unexpected size when invoking it on systems with mixed DPI monitors.
Addressed an issue where the Show More Options entry in the context menu wasn’t working for items in File Explorer’s navigation pane (for example, if you were to right click on This PC).
Did some work to help reduce the chance you will see “Loading” for app entries in the context menu.
Fixed an issue which was causing the “Open in Windows Terminal” context menu option to be unexpectedly missing for secondary users in some cases.
Opening suggested results shown while entering search terms in File Explorer’s search box should now work as expected.
Mitigated an underlying issue leading to the address bar being inaccessible in certain cases.
Mitigated an issue leading to increased launch time for certain file types in the previous flight.
[Widgets]
We fixed the issue where sometimes when pinning from the Feed, the pinned widget is placed at the top instead of below other pinned widgets.
We fixed the issue where after rearranging widgets in the widgets board, some users experience problems with widgets in the pinned section rendering incorrectly.
[Input]
Fixed an issue preventing several input UI surfaces from displaying following explorer.exe crashes in recent flights – this included the emoji panel, candidate windows, clipboard history, and the touch keyboard.
Mitigated an issue where Narrator was silent when launching the emoji panel in certain cases, for example if the search box wasn’t displayed.
Fixed an issue that was causing custom theme changes in Settings > Personalization > Text input to not save properly sometimes.
Addressed a few more color issues with the touch keyboard, including where after changing from dark to light mode, the touch keyboard might end up with a mix of dark and light.
Updated the touch keyboard button so that pressing it always shows the touch keyboard, rather than hiding it if it’s visible.
Returned the Backspace key to the touch keyboard’s small layout when using Chinese (Traditional).
Improved reliability of launching the touch keyboard on the login screen.
You should be able to use the Japanese IME’s context menu on the login screen to change conversion mode now.
Fixed an issue where the Chinese (Traditional) IMEs were only showing 5 suggested associated phrases when they should have been showing 9.
Fixed an issue where if you’d set a custom background image under Settings >Personalization > Text Input, the preview wouldn’t show how it looked in the candidate window for Chinese (Simplified).
Addressed a rendering issue with the corners of the IME toolbar.
Fixed an issue where the IME toolbar wasn’t hiding and showing correctly when using the previous version of the Japanese IME.
Improved voice typing reliability.
Updated voice typing error message “Voice typing is limited on this app” to be “Some voice typing features might not work in this app”, so it’s a little clearer that basic voice typing will still work.
Fixed an issue causing some voice typing commands not to work, for example “scratch that” (刮除它) in Chinese (Simplified).
Addressed an issue where the setting “Disable Touch while using Pen” under Settings > Bluetooth & Devices > Pen & Windows Ink would arbitrarily not take effect sometimes on first boot in recent flights.
Fixed an issue causing the Get-InstalledLanguage and Install-Language PowerShell commands to unexpectedly fail with error 0x8007023E for some languages.
[Settings]
If keyboard focus is on the chevron for a collapsible region on a Settings page, for example, the Snap windows section under System > Multitasking, you can now use the left and right arrows to expand and collapse the area.
Fixed an issue impacting reliability of System > Power & Battery.
When using the custom color picker on Personalization > Colors now, it should appear centered in the window frame and not randomly off to the side.
Setting your background image fit to “fit” under Personalization > Background should no longer cause the background image preview to become a solid color.
Addressed another issue that could cause Windows Spotlight to unexpectedly stop updating for a prolonged period of time.
Fixed an issue that was causing the Settings app to crash when going to focus settings.
Fixed an issue that was letting keyboard focus go to elements in the contrast theme previews in Accessibility > Contrast Themes that you couldn’t interact with.
Fixed an issue where leaving the contrast themes editor in Settings by selecting the breadcrumbs would clear the dropdown selection, but the buttons were still acting as if you had a theme selected.
Updated the text description for voice typing under Accessibility > Speech to make more sense when using the Japanese display language.
Addressed an issue that was preventing Quick Settings from launching with its new touch gesture.
Quick Settings will now show the correct icon to represent your audio output device again.
[Windowing]
Mitigated an issue which could lead to explorer.exe crashes when using ALT + Tab.
Fixed an issue where the keyboard focus outline in ALT + Tab sometimes was smaller than the displayed thumbnail.
Addressed an underlying DWM issue which was leading to crashes when using touch gestures from the sides of the screen.
Fixed a DWM crash when rotating the screen.
Mitigated an issue leading to some lag when resizing two apps snapped side by side in certain cases.
Fixed an issue where snap assist could unexpectedly dismiss if the initial window wouldn’t fit into the selected zone size. Now we resize the snap assist regions accordingly when minimum window size of the initial snapped window is larger than the selected zone.
If you invoke Task View with touch, the close buttons should no longer overlap with the window titles.
Hovering your mouse over the tooltip with the Desktop’s name will no longer unexpectedly make the Desktops flyout dismiss.
Using drag and drop to reorder your Desktops via the Desktop flyout should no longer leave a thumbnail of the Desktop you moved stuck on the screen.
[Voice access]
Fixed a crash that was impacting voice access reliability.
Addressed an issue that was preventing voice access’s speech models from downloading correctly.
[Live captions]
Addressed an underlying issue leading to live captions showing a download error, even though the download had actually completed successfully.
Live captions will now remember your chosen settings for position across sessions.
Mitigated an issue where the live captions position changed to floating when entering full screen, but the settings incorrectly showed the last position still.
Removed the live captions notification about audio playing from multiple apps as it was popping up repeatedly during usage.
The border of the live captions window will now match the style of all other borders in contrast themes.
[Narrator]
We fixed the issue that was causing natural voices to break up sporadically in recent builds.
Narrator will now read out the word minutes with the duration times listed in Settings for focus options.
Fixed an issue that was causing Narrator to read dialog buttons incorrectly in scan mode.
[Task Manager]
Removed backplate (colored square) from UWP app icons were displayed in Task Manager.
Mitigated an issue where the one side of the View button did not appear to do anything.
Fixed an issue which was causing the real time update speed to get set to Paused on its own. Please note, if you were impacted by this, you will need to make a one-time change to set the setting back to your preferred update speed after upgrading to this build.
[Other]
Mitigated an issue which was leading to a black (albeit interactable) screen when playing certain full screen games with Auto HDR enabled.
Fixed a memory leak in Connected Devices Platform User Service.
The volume and brightness flyouts you get when using your hardware keys will no longer show a focus window outline on top of them.
If WIN + Alt + K is pressed when a supported app isn’t running, the pop-up text displayed will now say “No supported apps in use for mic mute”, instead of “Mic mute unavailable”, so it’s clearer.
Addressed an issue which was leading to unexpected errors being displayed in Event Viewer when conhost.exe was activated.
Build 22598 is being offered to both the Beta and Dev Channels. ISOs are available and can be downloaded here.
Changes and Improvements:
[General]
We are now offering new builds to Windows Insiders in China on Lenovo PCs starting with Build 22598. These users should connect to the internet for a minimum of 15 minutes to allow the Lenovo PC Manager to auto update to the latest version (version 5.0.0.3292 or later) to receive an important fix with the app.
We are trying out auto-launching of the Get Started app with some Windows Insiders after upgrade to help people get started with their PC.
[REMINDER] As described in our in our blog post here, Windows Insiders who use the Dev Channel may get to try out new ideas, longer lead features, and experiences that may never get released. In this build, a limited set of Insiders will see the first of these experimental features as we explore additional ways to help people discover and get quick access to content they care about on the web with the Windows search box. If you see some of these concepts, be sure to let us know what you think via Feedback Hub (Win + F) and choose category Desktop Environment > Search.
[Windows Spotlight]
We are trying out Windows Spotlight on desktop is on by as the default background for new devices (clean installs using the ISO) and for upgrades where the background the Windows 11 default. We are trying this experience out with a limited number of Windows Insiders at first.
We are also trying out displaying 4K desktop backgrounds in Windows Spotlight. We are also trying this experience out with a limited number of Windows Insiders at first.
[Taskbar]
Updated the tooltip on the volume icon to tell you when you’re using spatial sound.
Fixes
[General]
Devices using Windows Information Protection (formerly EDP) policies can now access controlled data via protected apps such as Outlook, Word, Microsoft Edge, etc. as expected.
[Taskbar]
We fixed an issue where if you used keyboard focus on taskbar, hovers like previews would stay up during all taskbar interactions.
Fixed an issue that was causing taskbar badges to come back after explorer.exe crashes even if you had them turned off in Settings.
Made a fix for an issue where some mouse move events weren’t being passed to apps for icons in the system tray.
Fixed an issue where hovering over some app icons in the system tray wasn’t showing previews or tooltips.
App icons in the system tray should now be showing more reliably when opened again in this build.
Fixed an issue that was delaying or preventing the show hidden icons flyout from opening.
Fixed an issue where Chinese characters weren’t displaying in the taskbar calendar when the Lunar calendar was turned on.
Addressed an issue where the visual indicator around an app icon when sharing a window might not go away once you’d stopped sharing.
[Start menu]
We fixed a crash when selecting the More button in Start’s Recommended section.
Addressed an underlying issue which could lead to Start crashing on launch when invoked with a gesture.
Fixed an issue that was causing the buttons and labels in Start to be the wrong colors while using contrast themes.
Addressed an issue where if you swiped to scroll the contents of a folder in the pinned section of Start, it would unexpectedly close Start.
[File Explorer]
Addressed an issue which was causing the context menu to not render completely sometimes and be transparent.
[Input]
Improved the performance of launching the touch keyboard on the login screen.
Fixed an issue where if you had selected text with touch in certain apps like Settings, the backspace key in the touch keyboard would have to be tapped twice for it to delete.
Voice typing should no longer stop responding if you repeatedly press WIN + H.
Fixed an issue for people with a large number of input methods, where the currently selected one might not be in view when you opened the input switcher.
Fixed the link at the bottom of the Chinese (Simplified) IME appearance settings so it points to Settings > Personalization > Text Input.
Addressed an issue where the emoji panel’s background image and color might not be rendered correctly after using options in Settings > Personalization > Text Input.
[Settings]
Fixed an issue where high DPI options in the Compatibility tab of the properties for an executable weren’t working.
Narrator should now read the view options we added in Settings > Apps > Installed apps
[Windowing]
Returned the missing animation when pressing WIN + D or clicking the Show Desktop button.
We addressed an issue when using snap layouts with touch which could result in an acrylic sheet getting stuck on top of the window.
The thumbnails in Task View should no longer be inverted when using Hebrew or Arabic display languages.
Fixed an explorer.exe crash when invoking Task View.
If you have a lot of windows open, they should no longer become superimposed on top of Desktops in Task View.
Fixed an issue when using ALT + Tab with a screen reader, where if you ALT + Tabbed back to certain app windows, focus would be set to a pane within the window rather than the whole window.
Fixed an underlying issue where accented colored title bars (when enabled) for certain apps and File Explorer were only displaying when the windows were maximized.
Mitigated a rare issue that could lead to the system hanging when changing the resolution sometimes in certain games.
Addressed an issue causing white pixels in the corners of some apps when using dark mode.
Did some work to address an issue where certain app windows wouldn’t move to the expected area after selecting them using snap assist.
Fixed a glitch in the animation when using snap layouts at the top of the screen to snap windows.
[Live captions]
Fixed an issue where the very top of maximized apps (e.g., title bar window management buttons) couldn’t be reached with touch while live captions were positioned at the top.
Live captions will now tell you when it’s done downloading and ready to caption.
[Task Manager]
Mitigated an issue causing the Performance page CPU graph to be colored as if Show Kernel Times was enabled even though it wasn’t.
Did some work to further improve Task Manager reliability.
Added access key support for Run New Task (ALT + N), End Task (ALT + E), Efficiency Mode (ALT + V), and other buttons on each page. If you press ALT, the letters will display next to the button.
With a process selected, pressing the Delete key will now end the process like it used to.
CTRL + Tab and CTRL + Shift + Tab will now cycle through the pages in Task Manager.
Fixed an issue where the memory composition graph was blank instead of filed in with the appropriate color.
Mitigated an issue leading to the GPU graph on the performance tab not being displayed in some cases.
The icons in the status column of the Processes page are no longer touching the side of the column.
Fixed an issue where “Efficiency mode” was missing status column of the Users page.
[WSL]
Fixed an issue that would prevent WSL2 from mounting the host file system on ARM64.
[Other]
Fixed an issue from the previous flight where the acrylic might not extend across the entire login screen.
Fixed an issue that was causing the volume and brightness keys that appear when your use your hardware keys to be cut off in the middle.
Running powercfg /query should work now when launched from syswow64 or from a 32-bit process.
Fixed an apostrophe that wasn’t rendering correctly in the text when doing an offline scan from the Windows Security app.
Removed an extra “be” in the text describing Smart Account Control in the Windows Security app.
Fixed an issue for certain language which could lead to question marks being displayed in the place of some of the text when upgrading to a new build.
If you have increased the text size under Settings > Accessibility > Text Size and launch setup from a Windows ISO while booted into your currently installed OS, the text displayed in the setup window will now be increased to match your preferences.
UPDATE 4/15: We are starting to roll out Cumulative Update Build 22598.100 (KB5014100). This update does not include anything new and is designed to test our servicing pipeline for builds in the Dev and Beta Channels.
