Hi all, yesterday Microsoft released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20279 (FE_RELEASE) to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. This build is largely the same as Build 20277, but we wanted to test our ability to quickly follow-up a flight with another flight.
Windows Insiders who updated to Build 21277 (RS_PRERELEASE) last week will not be offered this build as they are on a newer build. We are working on getting a new build out to those Insiders soon. We expect to move all Insiders in the Dev Channel back to receiving builds from RS_PRERELEASE sometime after the holidays.
Known issues
We’re looking into reports of the update process hanging for extended periods of time when attempting to install a new build.
Live previews for pinned sites aren’t enabled for all Insiders yet, so you may see a grey window when hovering over the thumbnail in the taskbar. We’re continuing to work on polishing this experience.
We’re working on enabling the new taskbar experience for existing pinned sites. In the meantime, you can unpin the site from the taskbar, remove it from the edge://apps page, and then re-pin the site.
We’re working on a fix for an issue resulting in some users seeing error 0x80070426 when using their Microsoft account to sign into various apps. If you encounter it, rebooting your PC may resolve this.
We’re working on a fix for an issue where, in recent Dev Channel builds, no drives appear under Settings > System > Storage > Manage Disks and Volumes. As a workaround, you can manage your disks in the classic Disk Management tool.
Some strange graphic issues on my Surface Laptop 3, letter seem slightly distorted, then a second later the issue auto resolves… a hard one to capture
As mentioned here, we are giving Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel the option to receive builds from the RS_PRERELEASE branch. These builds will be offered as an optional update through the “seeker” experience in Windows Update. This means Insiders will have to go and choose to install the currently offered RS_PRERELEASE build. Once they do, they will continue to receive RS_PRERELEASE builds going forward. This optional experience for receiving RS_PRERELEASE builds is just temporary – we plan to move all Insiders in the Dev Channel back to receiving builds from RS_PRERELEASE sometime after the holidays. As a reminder, Dev Channel builds are not matched to a specific Windows 10 release.
Also: features like the updated emoji picker, redesigned touch keyboard, voice typing, theme-aware splash screens, and others that were removed temporarily at the end of October will be returning for Insiders who install this RS_PRERELEASE build. However, please note some of these features will continue to be available only to a subset of Insiders and will get enabled for more Insiders over time.
Be sure to check the list of known issues below. The list of fixes and known issues between FE_RELEASE builds and RS_PRERELEASE builds will NOT be the same.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Once an Insider chooses to install a RS_PRERELEASE build, they cannot move back to receiving FE_RELEASE builds as their device will be on a higher build number. Insiders will still have the option to roll back to a previous version for up to 10 days or until you take another build.
What’s new in Build 21277
Introducing x64 emulation in preview for Windows 10 on ARM PCs
Windows Insiders with ARM PCs who install this build can try out x64 emulation by installing x64 apps from the Microsoft Store or from any other location of their choosing. For more details on this experience, please head on over and read this blog post from Hari Pulapaka!
Adding Support for Unicode Emoji 12.1 and 13.0
Starting with this build, Insiders will get their first look at the emoji we’ve designed to support Emoji 12.1 and 13.0! This update brings over 200 new glyphs to Windows – including bubble tea, a smiling face with tear, a ninja, a magic wand, and more:
As part of this change, we’re introducing a gender-neutral emoji design, which you can now select alongside the corresponding male or female design in our emoji panel and touch keyboard:
You’ll also find we’ve made some tweaks to our existing emoji to improve cross-platform consistency:
(OLD)
(NEW)
To bring up the emoji panel and check out all the changes, press Windows key + Period (.) or Windows key + Semicolon (;).
One final note: we’ve made several improvements to our emoji search terms based on your feedback – if you update to today’s build and still find the expected emoji isn’t being returned when you search for it, please let us know! You can file feedback for this in the Feedback Hub under Input and Language > Emoji panel. Please specify what words you used, and which emoji you expected to appear.
Changes and Improvements
We’ve updated the animation when opening or closing a window to make the transition smoother. Do you notice a difference? Let us know!
Based on Insider feedback, you can now use the built-in screen snipping experience in Windows (WIN + SHIFT + S) to create a snip of your screen and paste it directly into a folder of your choice in File Explorer to save the screenshot there. Try it out! (This was released to Windows Insiders in the Beta Channel as part of the recent Windows Feature Experience Pack update.)
It’s now possible to uninstall the Snipping Tool. If you choose to uninstall it, it can be reinstalled via the Optional Features page in Settings.
We’ve made some adjustments to improve the scaling logic of the graphs in Task Manager’s Performance tab.
We’ve updated Registry Editor so that the Find window, renaming a key, and other places all now support CTRL + Backspace to delete words at a time.
When using the Delete key or Dismiss button in Action Center to clear groups of notifications, Narrator will now announce that the notification group has been cleared instead of just moving focus to the next notification group.
Based on feedback we’re adjusting a few strings in Offline Maps Settings to improve clarity.
To help you find what you’re looking for faster, we’ve updated our folder logic in Start menu’s all apps list so that if a folder only contains a single item we will now display that item in place of the folder.
Fixes
We fixed an issue resulting in some users seeing error 0x80070426 when using their Microsoft account to sign into various apps.
We fixed an issue where limiting a search in File Explorer to a specific folder was unexpectedly returning results from the subfolders.
We fixed an issue resulting in a “The directory name is invalid” error appearing when trying to open a file from a saved File Explorer search.
We fixed an issue where after doing a search from within File Explorer and clicking the arrow next to a column header to see a list of available filters for the results, it would get stuck on “Computing Filters…” and never actually displays any filters.
We fixed an issue where the apostrophe in the tooltips for Power options in Start menu wasn’t displaying correctly.
We fixed an issue that could result in Microsoft Edge windows unexpectedly being grouped with File Explorer in the taskbar.
We fixed an issue that could result in explorer.exe crashing when switching virtual desktops using a touchpad gesture.
We fixed an issue that could result in acrylic unexpectedly not be applied to the login screen if you used the option in Start to switch users.
We fixed a deadlock that could result in the Windows Security icon in the notification area continually displaying an alert although the Windows Security app had no alerts.
We fixed a typo in Settings > Privacy > Notifications.
We fixed an issue impacting the loading performance of Sign-in Settings for some users.
We fixed an issue where the ms-settings:signinoptions-launchsecuritykeyenrollment URI wasn’t opening the security key management options in Sign-in Settings.
We fixed an issue that could result in your name and profile image being unexpectedly missing from the banner at the top of Settings.
We fixed an issue that could result in Windows Update Settings saying battery saver was enabled when it wasn’t.
We fixed an issue that could result in you unexpectedly seeing a message when shutting down saying “Closing 1 app and signing out. Task Host is stopping background tasks” related to syncing language settings, even though no apps were open.
We fixed an issue resulting in printers with Japanese characters in their names not displaying correctly in Printers & Scanners Settings.
We fixed an issue where Background Settings was still displaying a link to “Sync your settings” although this option is no longer supported.
We fixed an issue resulting in some apps in Apps & Features Settings to display unexpectedly dimmed.
We fixed an issue that could result in no screenshot being copied to your clipboard after pressing WIN + Shift + S.
We fixed an issue that could result in a bug check with error IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL when playing games with hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling enabled.
We fixed an issue where a slight drag on a modifier key on the touch keyboard (such as CTRL or Shift) while it was being held down could result in the key becoming stuck down.
We fixed an issue where the clipboard icon in the touch keyboard (when there was content available to be pasted) was unexpectedly small.
We’ve fixed a few issues impacting touch keyboard performance.
We fixed an issue impacting touch keyboard reliability in the last few flights.
We fixed an issue where when using high contrast, the border of some keys in the touch keyboard were the same as the key color.
We fixed an issue where when using high contrast items in the touch keyboard’s language list were unexpectedly using the disabled text color.
We fixed an issue impacting touch keyboard usage with Narrator.
We fixed an issue where after selecting a clipboard history item from the touch keyboard, it might not be possible to subsequently select text candidates.
We fixed an issue where the touch keyboard would crash if you tried to input a character using a child key into a password field.
We fixed an issue for touch keyboard users, where, after restarting explorer.exe, it could result in explorer.exe getting stuck in a restart loop.
We fixed an issue where the Japanese IME may not display the current furigana in a string after reconversion.
We fixed an issue where the kana input mode state in the Japanese IME’s context menu could get out of sync with the actual state.
We fixed an issue when using the Japanese IME resulting in an unexpected, continued increase in ctfmon.exe handle usage after every focus switch.
We fixed an issue where when typing using the Japanese IME in a browser’s URL bar, after using space to convert your string the up / down arrows to select the browser suggestions wouldn’t work.
We’ve made a few fixes to address craftsmanship issues with the new voice typing experience.
We fixed an issue where trying to use voice typing with when airplane mode was enabled would result in an expectedly large authentication pop up appearing.
We fixed an issue where voice typing could get stuck initializing and never start listening.
We fixed an issue where if voice typing was open and you switched languages, it might unexpectedly start listening again.
We fixed an issue where the close button on notifications wasn’t working with touch.
We fixed an issue resulting in the Action Center sometimes unexpectedly showing blank when there were available notifications.
We fixed an issue where the margin from a notification to the taskbar wasn’t the same as the margin from a notification to the side of the screen.
We fixed an issue that could result in the Focus Assist quick action not responding, and going to Focus Assist Settings, crashing Settings pages.
We fixed an issue where if you launched Notepad by running %windir%\notepad.exe, then Notepad’s icon wouldn’t display correctly in the title bar.
We fixed an issue that could result in you seeing your display turn on after existing Modern Standby but shortly afterwards bug check saying that it took too long for the display to turn on.
We fixed an issue resulting in some Insiders seeing a bug check recently citing an issue with Memory Management.
We fixed an issue resulting in some Insiders seeing a bug check recently saying System Service Exception.
We fixed an issue that could result in sections of Task Manager’s Performance tab not responding to mouse scroll wheel or touchpad pan events.
We fixed an issue where the Power Usage and Power Usage Trend columns in Task Manager weren’t showing arrows indicating directionality when sorting by that column.
Known issues
We’re working on a fix for an issue resulting in some users seeing a popup that says “Your PC ran into a problem and will restart in 1 min” after logging in to Windows with either an Azure Active Directory or Active Directory account. If you encounter it, please save any data immediately and your system will restart automatically.
We’re looking into reports of the update process hanging for extended periods of time when attempting to install a new build.
Live previews for pinned sites aren’t enabled for all Insiders yet, so you may see a grey window when hovering over the thumbnail in the taskbar. We’re continuing to work on polishing this experience.
We’re working on enabling the new taskbar experience for existing pinned sites. In the meantime, you can unpin the site from the taskbar, remove it from the edge://apps page, and then re-pin the site.
We’re working on a fix for an issue where no drives appear under Settings > System > Storage > Manage Disks and Volumes. As a workaround, you can manage your disks in the classic Disk Management tool.
Hi all, Last week Microsoft released not 1 but 2 builds to the Windows Insiders Dev Channel, Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20277 (FE_RELEASE) and Build 21277
I’ve split up my DEv Channel devices so I have multiple of both running for testing
Smooth upgrades so far!
Starting today, we are giving Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel the option to receive builds from the RS_PRERELEASE branch. These builds will be offered as an optional update through the “seeker” experience in Windows Update. This means Insiders will have to go and choose to install the currently offered RS_PRERELEASE build. Today, Insiders can choose to install Build 21277. Once they do, they will continue to receive RS_PRERELEASE builds going forward.
Insiders who choose to stay put will continue to automatically get builds from the FE_RELEASE until we move all Insiders in the Dev Channel to receiving RS_PRERELEASE builds sometime after the holidays. We still need Insiders running FE_RELEASE builds and giving us feedback on these builds so its ok if you choose to stay on these builds.
Be sure to check the list of known issues below. The list of fixes and known issues between FE_RELEASE builds and RS_PRERELEASE builds will NOT be the same.
As a reminder, Dev Channel builds are not matched to a specific Windows 10 release.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Once an Insider chooses to install a RS_PRERELEASE build, they cannot move back to receiving FE_RELEASE builds as their device will be on a higher build number. Insiders will still have the option to roll back to a previous version for up to 10 days or until you take another build.
Fixes
We fixed an issue that could result in the WinRE volume label being lost after multiple upgrades.
We fixed an issue that could result in apps failing to update with error code 0x80073D02.
Known issues
We’re looking into reports of the update process hanging for extended periods of time when attempting to install a new build.
Live previews for pinned sites aren’t enabled for all Insiders yet, so you may see a grey window when hovering over the thumbnail in the taskbar. We’re continuing to work on polishing this experience.
We’re working on enabling the new taskbar experience for existing pinned sites. In the meantime, you can unpin the site from the taskbar, remove it from the edge://apps page, and then re-pin the site.
We’re working on a fix for an issue resulting in some users seeing error 0x80070426 when using their Microsoft account to sign into various apps. If you encounter it, rebooting your PC may resolve this.
We’re working on a fix for an issue where, in recent Dev Channel builds, no drives appear under Settings > System > Storage > Manage Disks and Volumes. As a workaround, you can manage your disks in the classic Disk Management tool.
Hi all, Thursday, after a week with no release, a day later than usual, Microsoft released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20270 (FE_RELEASE) to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel.
Smooth upgrades so far, do check out the file skill for Cortana they rock!
You can now use Cortana on your PCs to translate their thoughts into direct actions to open and find files and save time spent navigating to apps/folders to locate and open files.
Enterprise users who sign into Cortana with their corporate credentials (e.g., AAD) can search for files saved on OneDrive For Business and SharePoint along with files saved locally on their PCs (this setting is at Settings > Search > Searching Windows). Users using a Microsoft account (e.g., ending with Outlook.com or Hotmail.com) can use Cortana to find files saved on their PCs. This feature is currently available to our English-speaking users in U.S.
Try and use Cortana to open or search files by:
Parts of file names (Example: “Hey Cortana, opening marketing deck.”)
Author names (Example: “Hey Cortana, open budget Excel from Anthony”)
Find a document you have been editing (Example: “Hey Cortana, find my recent files”)
Find a document of a particular type (Example: “Hey Cortana, find my recent pdfs”)
Changes and Improvements
The new “Advanced View” checkbox in Optimize Drives is now up and running and checking it will display volumes previously not visible in this window (for example system and recovery partitions).
We fixed an issue resulting in some dialogs, such as Properties, displaying black text on dark backgrounds in recent flights.
We fixed an issue that could result in certain apps unexpectedly closing when clicking the Maximize button in recent builds.
We fixed an issue resulting in printers with Japanese characters in their names not displaying correctly in Printers & Scanners Settings.
We fixed an issue that could result in some delay logging into your PC on devices with a large number of users.
Known issues
We’re looking into reports of the update process hanging for extended periods of time when attempting to install a new build.
Live previews for pinned sites aren’t enabled for all Insiders yet, so you may see a grey window when hovering over the thumbnail in the taskbar. We’re continuing to work on polishing this experience.
We’re working on enabling the new taskbar experience for existing pinned sites. In the meantime, you can unpin the site from the taskbar, remove it from the edge://apps page, and then re-pin the site.
We’re working on a fix for an issue resulting in some users seeing error 0x80070426 when using their Microsoft account to sign into various apps. If you encounter it, rebooting your PC may resolve this.
We’re working on a fix for an issue where, in recent Dev Channel builds, no drives appear under Settings > System > Storage > Manage Disks and Volumes. As a workaround, you can manage your disks in the classic Disk Management tool.
Announcing Your Phone multi-apps experience – interact with multiple Android mobile apps at the same time on your Windows 10 PC
The Your Phone apps experience continues to evolve. We are happy to announce that the multi-apps experience is now ready for you to try. You can experience the power and convenience of running multiple Android mobile apps side by side on your Windows 10 PC on supported Samsung devices. Apps will launch in separate windows enabling you to interact with multiple apps at the same time even if the Your Phone app is not open. Pin your apps to Favorites, Windows 10 taskbar or Start menu for quick and easy access. And moreover, you can now search for your previously pinned apps via Windows search from within your Start app list. So, whether you are staying connected with family and friends, keeping up on your social feed or ordering food, you can do it all simultaneously from the comfort of your PC, no need to install apps or sign-in again.
Starting last Thursday, the multi-apps feature has started to rollout on supported Samsung Galaxy phones (Note20 5G, Note20 Ultra 5G, Z Fold2 5G, Z Flip, Z Flip 5G) running Android 10 with Link to Windows (LTW) integration and to Windows Insiders who are configured to be in the Dev, Beta, or Release Preview Channels. Please note that this is a server-side change that takes time to propagate out.
Additional feature requirements and known issues can be found here.
Give this feature a try and provide us with your valuable feedback as we continue to test, learn, and improve the overall user experience. You can provide feedback within the Your Phone app under Settings -> Send Feedback.
Changes and Improvements
Based on feedback, we’re updating our Start menu tile theming logic such that the tile background for Win32 apps will no longer adjust based on detected contrast ratio, except in the case of pinned Microsoft Edge PWAs.
Fixes
We fixed an issue starting with Build 20236 where installing games from the Store to a secondary non-OS drive would result in the secondary drive becoming inaccessible.
We fixed an issue causing some devices to experience a DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION bugcheck in recent builds.
We fixed an issue resulting in some apps crashing on launch in the previous flight, including Microsoft Jigsaw and Microsoft Minesweeper.
We fixed an issue resulting in File Explorer having a transparent line across the top when maximized on systems with multiple monitors.
We fixed an issue resulting in win32 app titles being unexpectedly highlighted in the title bar after enabling and disabling high contrast.
We fixed an issue where the windows.old folder is not completely deleted when performing disk cleanup.
We fixed an issue where if you reset your PC then and re-connected your MSA, then your MSA picture might never sync down.
We fixed an issue impacting Windows Hello Face recognition if the device was trained in a different orientation than the orientation used at unlock time.
We fixed an issue where setting up a kiosk (assigned access) account wouldn’t work the first time you tried, only subsequent tries.
We fixed a deadlock that could result in unexpected CPU usage. If you continue experiencing other performance issues, please take a moment to file feedback including details about the issue you’re seeing, and a performance trace. More info about collecting a repro trace is available here if needed.
We fixed an issue resulting in recently some apps being slower to accept keystrokes into text fields.
We fixed an issue that could result in links from apps failing to launch the browser.
We fixed an issue from the last couple flights that could result in audio playback unexpectedly stopping.
We fixed an issue that could result in not hearing audio after streaming certain content then turning your Bluetooth headset off and back on.
We fixed an issue that could result in Movies & TV failing to play some recorded HDR videos with error 0x80004001.
Known issues
We’re looking into reports of the update process hanging for extended periods of time when attempting to install a new build.
Live previews for pinned sites aren’t enabled for all Insiders yet, so you may see a grey window when hovering over the thumbnail in the taskbar. We’re continuing to work on polishing this experience.
We’re working on enabling the new taskbar experience for existing pinned sites. In the meantime, you can unpin the site from the taskbar, remove it from the edge://apps page, and then re-pin the site.
We’re investigating reports that some users are seeing error 0x80070426 when using their Microsoft account to sign into various apps. If you encounter it, rebooting your PC may resolve this.
We’re investigating an issue where, after taking this build, no drives appear under Settings > System > Storage > Manage Disks and Volumes. As a workaround, you can manage your disks in the classic Disk Management tool.
We’re investigating reports that some screens incorrectly have black text on dark backgrounds when dark theme is enabled.
Hi All, last Thursday Microsoft released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20251 (FE_RELEASE) to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel.
As it’s supposed to go with the 1st few FE_Release updates lost of fixed no cool new features yet 🙂 hang in there 😉
All smooth upgrades here, just a weird effect during download/install, after completing the download phase, staring the install phase somewhere around 9% installing, some devices just start over with downloading & then successfully complete the upgrade process
Fixes
We fixed an issue resulting in the background of some dialogs to unexpectedly appear grey instead of white in the last couple flights.
We fixed an issue resulting in the taskbar occluding the Power button in the Start menu for some Insiders recently.
We fixed an issue resulting in some Insiders seeing a SYSTEM THREAD EXCEPTION NOT HANDLED bug check.
We fixed a crash with opengl32.dll.
We fixed an issue that could result in the Settings app hanging when checking for updates right after upgrade.
We fixed an issue that could result in the Settings app sending a notification that just said “new notification”.
We fixed an issue resulting in the Search Indexer not being able to retrieve metadata from HEIF and WebP files, so you couldn’t search for those files using metadata like date taken.
We fixed an issue resulting in the Cast to Device option in Movies & TV (and other media playback apps) not taking any action when clicking on a listed device in recent builds.
We fixed an issue in recent builds that could result in the screen you were projecting with Miracast freezing shortly after connecting.
[UPDATE] We fixed the issue causing Windows PowerShell to fail to launch for Insiders on ARM PCs such as the Surface Pro X .
Known issues
We’re working on a fix for an issue starting with Build 20236 where installing games from the Store to a secondary non-OS drive will result in the secondary drive becoming inaccessible. To prevent this from occurring you must change the default storage for new content to the secondary drive PRIOR to installing the game. This can be done in Settings > Storage > Change where new content is saved.
We’re looking into reports of the update process hanging for extended periods of time when attempting to install a new build.
Live previews for pinned sites aren’t enabled for all Insiders yet, so you may see a grey window when hovering over the thumbnail in the taskbar. We’re continuing to work on polishing this experience.
We’re working on enabling the new taskbar experience for existing pinned sites. In the meantime, you can unpin the site from the taskbar, remove it from the edge://apps page, and then re-pin the site.
We’re working on a fix for an issue causing some devices to experience a DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION bugcheck.
Windows Insiders on ARM PCs such as the Surface Pro X will notice that Windows PowerShell will fail to launch on this build. As a workaround, please use “Windows PowerShell (x86)” or “Windows PowerShell ISE (x86)” from the Start menu if you need to use PowerShell. Or download the new and modern PowerShell 7 which takes advantage of ARM by running natively. Plus the icon is prettier. FIXED.
We’re investigating reports that some users are seeing error 0x80070426 when using their Microsoft account to sign into various apps. If you encounter it, rebooting your PC may resolve this.
[ADDED 11/4] We’re investigating an issue where, after taking this build, no drives appear under Settings > System > Storage > Manage Disks and Volumes. As a workaround, you can manage your disks in the classic Disk Management tool.
[ADDED 11/5] We’re investigating reports that some screens incorrectly have black text on dark backgrounds when dark theme is enabled.
Hi all, last Thusday, a day later than usual, Microsoft released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20246 to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel.
This new Build is called an FE_RELEASE. You will notice that some features like the updated emoji picker, redesigned touch keyboard, voice typing, theme-aware splash screens, and others have been removed temporarily. “We look to bring these features back to Insiders in the future”. As an important reminder – builds from the FE_RELEASE branch are not matched to a specific Windows 10 release.
All smooth & fast upgrades here, reverting back to the old emoji picker feels kind of weird 🕰
Happy Upgrades & a scary Halloween Weekend!✨
Other updates for Insiders
Starting soon, the preview experience of the Calendar app will be removed in an upcoming update and return to its classic look and feel. Windows Insiders will see a pop-up notifying them of the changes to the preview experience. No action is needed at this time. We appreciate all your great ideas and are excited to continue building the best Calendar experience.
Changes and Improvements
We added automatic Linux distro installation to the wsl.exe --install command! This means that users who wish to install the Windows Subsystem for Linux quickly can just type in wsl.exe –install into the command line and then will have a fully set up WSL instance ready to go, including their Linux distro of choice.
Fixes
We fixed an issue causing some devices experiencing a KMODE_EXCEPTION bugcheck when using certain virtualization technologies.
We fixed an issue causing devices running Malwarebytes Web Protection to no longer be able to connect to the network.
We fixed an issue causing some devices to receive a DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL bugcheck on tcpip.sys.
We fixed an issue that could result in the Pick Time button in the Windows Update dialog not doing anything.
We fixed an issue where hovering over a thumbnail in Task View would display an unexpected border around the item.
We fixed an issue where chkdsk could appear to be stuck at 100% due to not printing the message saying it was done.
We fixed an issue that could result in a crash when disconnecting certain audio devices while playing audio in recent builds.
We fixed an issue where the Windows Update page in Settings could fail to load if connected to a Wi-Fi network with no internet connection.
We fixed an issue resulting in Settings crashing sometimes when clicking the Update and Security category.
We fixed an issue resulting in Storage Settings unexpectedly showing incorrect category sizes (a higher number than what was visible in File Explorer).
We fixed an issue that could lead to a crash when managing partition size in Storage Settings.
We fixed an issue that stopped GPU compute scenarios such as CUDA and DirectML not working for some users inside of the Windows Subsystem for Linux.
Known issues
We’re investigating reports of installing games from the Store to a secondary non-OS drive will result in the secondary drive becoming inaccessible. To prevent this from occurring you must change the default storage for new content to the secondary drive PRIOR to installing the game. This can be done in Settings > Storage > Change where new content is saved.
We’re looking into reports of the update process hanging for extended periods of time when attempting to install a new build.
Live previews for pinned sites aren’t enabled for all Insiders yet, so you may see a grey window when hovering over the thumbnail in the taskbar. We’re continuing to work on polishing this experience.
We’re working on enabling the new taskbar experience for existing pinned sites. In the meantime, you can unpin the site from the taskbar, remove it from the edge://apps page, and then re-pin the site.
We’re working on a fix for an issue causing some devices to experience a DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION bugcheck.
We’re investigating an issue reported by some Insiders wherein the taskbar is obscuring the Power button in the Start menu. If this is happening on your PC, you may need to use the Windows key plus X menu to shutdown for the time being.
Windows Insiders on ARM PCs such as the Surface Pro X will notice that Windows PowerShell will fail to launch on this build. As a workaround, please use “Windows PowerShell (x86)” or “Windows PowerShell ISE (x86)” from the Start menu if you need to use PowerShell. Or download the new and modern PowerShell 7 which takes advantage of ARM by running natively. Plus the icon is prettier.
Celebrating with our 6th anniversary badge
As a thank you for being with us these last six years, last week we released a special anniversary badge to all Windows Insiders. Visit Feedback Hub > Achievements now to check out yours. Thank you so much for helping us improve Windows 10 over that time!
Hi all, Last Wednesday Microsoft released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20236 to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel.
All smooth upgrades here, very fast download speeds, one device was ready to install after 12 minutes.
Friday an extra update 20236.1005 was released to test the update pipeline some reports here where the update took long on installing 100% before it showed the restart now option. https://aka.ms/AAa0ihm
What’s new in Build 20236
Change Refresh Rate of your display
You can now go to Settings > System > Display > Advanced display settings and change the refresh rate of your selected display. A higher refresh rate allows for smoother motion. The presented refresh rates can vary with the supported hardware on your device.
Other updates for Insiders
Improving your search experience
We’re rolling out a change to display some of your recent searches when you open Windows Search Box, to make them easy to get back to. This change is rolling out server-side to everyone on version 1809 and higher:
The recent list shows the last four items that you’ve searched for and opened from Windows Search Box, which can include apps, files, settings, and direct-nav URLs (for example, like “bing.com”).
You can remove individual items in this list by clicking the “x” that shows when you hover your mouse over the items.
You can disable the Recent feature by turning off the Windows setting “Search history on this device” under Settings > Search > Permissions and History.
If you’ve not used Windows Search Box before and have 0 recent items, the recent list will be hidden.
If you don’t use Windows Search Box often and have fewer than 2 items in the recent list, an educational string will display in the area to let you know what types of items will appear in the list.
This change is rolling out server-side to everyone on version 1903 and higher.
Updates for developers
The Windows SDK is now flighting continuously with the Dev Channel. Whenever a new OS build is flighted to the Dev Channel, the corresponding SDK will also be flighted. You can always install the latest Insider SDK from aka.ms/InsiderSDK. SDK flights will be archived in Flight Hub along with OS flights.
Changes and Improvements
To improve accessibility of PDFs for Narrator and other screen reader users, in the cases where Unicode is not provided by the printing application, we’re updating our Microsoft Print to PDF option to make an attempt to convert the provided font glyphs to Unicode.
Fixes
We’ve fixed an issue where after taking recent builds some Insiders received an unexpected Compatibility Assistant notification that “Microsoft Office is no longer available”.
We’ve fixed an issue where some Office applications were crashing or missing after updating to a new build.
We fixed an issue that could result in the same app update installing repeatedly on the previous build.
We’ve fixed an issue where some devices are experiencing a DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION bugcheck
We fixed an issue resulting in some Insiders experiencing an UNHANDLED_EXCEPTION in dxgkrnl.sys bugcheck in the last few builds.
We fixed an issue that could result in a 0x800F0247 error when installing driver updates.
\We fixed an issue that could result in sihost.exe crashing when trying to share an app via the Share option when right clicking a tile in Start.
We fixed an issue where if “Animate controls and elements inside windows” was turned off in Performance Options, dragging a tile to another tile group in Start would result in the dragged tile no longer responding to mouse click.
We fixed an issue resulting in Narrator sometimes reading out an incorrect number of nodes in File Explorer’s navigation pane (for example, saying 1 of 2 items, instead of 1 of 4 items).
\We fixed an issue that could result in the icon next to “Scan with Microsoft Defender” (when right clicking a file in File Explorer) being very small or large.
We fixed an issue where the icon next to “Scan with Microsoft Defender” when right clicking a file wasn’t updating to reflect high contrast when high contrast was enabled.
We fixed an issue that could result in File Explorer crashing when renaming a file.
We fixed an issue from recent builds resulting in clicking on items in Timeline not launching the corresponding app.
We fixed an issue from recent builds impacting certain apps with search boxes, where the search box would disappear when scrolling the app even if it was supposed to stay visible.
We fixed an issue resulting in intermittent connectivity loss when connecting to a PC via remote desktop connection, as a result of the connected PC attempting to sleep.
We fixed an issue where when using the windns.h API to discover services on the local network, the TTL value of the discovered service wasn’t used – instead using the default value of 120 seconds.
]We fixed an issue where the “Listen to this device” checkbox state in microphone properties wasn’t persisted on upgrade and would revert to default.
We fixed an issue where adjusting volume also muted/unmuted when “App volume and device preferences” was open.
We fixed an issue that could result in the Network & Internet Settings Status page sometimes unexpectedly not showing all current connections.
We fixed an issue that could result in your cursor disappearing when typing into Command Prompt with a Chinese IME active.
We fixed an issue that could result in the touch keyboard sometimes not making any sounds while typing even though the setting to have sound while typing was enabled.
We fixed an issue where the French AZERTY touch keyboard layout was French keyboard is missing number hint labels on the A/Z keys, and the Select All/Undo labels were at the top instead of bottom.
We fixed an issue where the child keys on the Japanese 12-key touch keyboard layout weren’t following the updated key design.
We fixed an issue where Narrator was unexpectedly saying “Expressive Input Panel” when you touched a text candidate in the touch keyboard.
We fixed an issue that could result in the touch keyboard getting stuck in a suspended state after waking a PC from sleep, leading to it not invoking automatically when setting focus to a text field.
We fixed an issue with the updated touch keyboard design where when using Arabic the clipboard icon would appear on the wrong side of the copied text in the candidate bar.
We fixed an issue with the Thai touch keyboard layout, where the shift-state characters were placed in inconsistent locations on the keys.
We fixed an issue where when using the updated Emoji Panel design, Narrator wasn’t reading the category names in the Most Recently Used section.
We fixed an issue with the Emoji Panel when using Narrator, where after inserting an emoji, Narrator would then stay silent on navigating further to other emoji.
We fixed an issue where it wasn’t possible to use the arrow keys to navigate through the gif section of the Emoji Panel.
We fixed some contrast issues in the updated Emoji Panel and touch keyboard expressive input area when using high contrast.
We fixed an issue that could result in the Voice Typing settings menu drawing off screen.
We fixed a regression that was breaking NVIDIA CUDA vGPU acceleration in the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Please see this GitHub thread for full details.
Known issues
We’re working on an issue where new applications will fail to install with a Windows Installer service error on x86 systems. Windows x64 isn’t affected.
We’re working on an issue where when attempting to perform a Reset this PC using the Keep My Files option will fail with the error, “There was a problem resetting your PC. No changes were made”.
We’re looking into reports of the update process hanging for extended periods of time when attempting to install a new build.
Live previews for pinned sites aren’t enabled for all Insiders yet, so you may see a grey window when hovering over the thumbnail in the taskbar. We’re continuing to work on polishing this experience.
We’re working on enabling the new taskbar experience for existing pinned sites. In the meantime, you can unpin the site from the taskbar, remove it from the edge://apps page, and then re-pin the site.
We’re working on a fix for an issue causing some devices experiencing a KMODE_EXCEPTION bugcheck when using certain virtualization technologies.
We are working on a fix for an issue where selecting an IME candidate or hardware keyboard text prediction candidate may insert the candidate adjacent to the one selected.
We’re investigating an issue reported by some Insiders wherein the taskbar is obscuring the Power button in the Start menu. If this is happening on your PC, you may need to use the Windows key plus X menu to shutdown for the time being.
We’re investigating reports from some Insiders that they’re experiencing APC_INDEX_MISMATCH bugchecks.
[ADDED] We’re investigating GPU Compute scenarios, such as using CUDA and DirectML, not working inside of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
[ADDED 10/16] Windows Insiders on ARM PCs such as the Surface Pro X will notice that Windows PowerShell will fail to launch on this build. As a workaround, please use “Windows PowerShell (x86)” or “Windows PowerShell ISE (x86)” from the Start menu if you need to use PowerShell. Or download the new and modern PowerShell 7 which takes advantage of ARM by running natively. Plus the icon is prettier.
Want to know more on how privacy and IT can work hand in hand? How GDPR “the right to be forgotten” works in an IT environment ? Are you responsible for the data of your customer? How often is you privacy breached? Does it matter? Do you have something to hide?
Wil je weten hoe privacy en IT kan samenwerken? Hoe het GDPR “recht op vergeten” werkt in een IT omgeving? En ben je als (externe) IT’er verantwoordelijk voor de data van je klant? Maar ook hoe vaak wordt er eigenlijk inbreuk op je privacy gemaakt? En maakt het wel uit? – heb je iets te verbergen?
Do you want answers to these questions? Register now for the IT Privacy Debate that will happen November 24th 2020 as an online event. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from 2 top-experts on the matter and join the extended debate, where your questions will be answered.
Wil je de antwoorden weten op deze vragen? Schrijf je dan nu direct in voor het IT Privacy Debat die online doorgaat op dinsdag 24 November 2020. Mis zeker de kans niet om twee top-experten in deze materie te horen en een neem deel aan het uitgebreid debat op het einde, waarin jullie vragen worden beantwoord.
The 1st expert session is by Matthias Dobbelaere-Welvaert – Belgium’s most known Privacy Activist. With his ‘stop the fingerprint’ actions against adding biometric data he even brings this case to court.
De eerste expert die we aan het woord laten is niemand minder danMatthias Dobbelaere-Welvaert– belgisch voornaamste privacy activist. Met zijn ‘Stop de vingerafdruk’ acties tegen het toevoegen van biometrische gegevens brengt hij deze zaak zelfs voor tot op het Grondwettelijk Hof. Met een nieuw boek op komst – legt hij even haarfijn uit waar het misloopt met jouw privacy.
For the 2nd expert session we signed up Peter Geelen – a well-known user community member but foremost an expert in Identity Management, Privacy, Data Protection and Cyber Security. He will talk about all you want to know on privacy & data protection in an SMB environment. On all you are allowed to do with data up to often made mistakes and real cases handled by the GBA
Als tweede expert sessie hebben wePeter Geelen gestrikt – een oudgediende in de user community maar vooreerst een expert in Identity Management, Privacy, Data Protection en CyberSecurity. Hij zal het hebben over alles wat je wil weten over privacy & data protection binnen een KMO omgeving. Over wat je met data mag doen tot veelgemaakte fouten en echte cases die behandeld zijn geweest door de GBA.
To organize the debate smoothly you can already post your questions here: Online Form
Om het debat in goede banen te leiden kan je alvast hier je vragen stellen die we kunnen meenemen in het debat: Online Formulier
Agenda:
• 18h30: Introductions
• 18h35: Session 1 | Matthias Dobbelaere-Welvaert
• 19h30: Break
• 19h45: Session 2 | Peter Geelen
• 20h45: Break
• 21h00: Moderated debate with the experts
When: November 24th 2020 | Location:Microsoft Teams Event
