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Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25346 Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25346 to the Canary Channel. We are releasing ISOs for this build – they can be downloaded here. If you miss this month’s Windows Insider webcast featuring the Phone Link team, you can watch it on demand here: https://aka.ms/April2023WIPWebcast. REMINDER: As builds released to the Canary Channel are “hot off the presses,” we will offer limited documentation for builds flighted to the Canary Channel (no known issues for example), but we will not publish a blog post for every flight – only when new features are available in a build. And like the previous Canary Channel build, this build has a few new features and changes to document. What’s new in Build 25346 Content Adaptive Brightness Control (CABC) on plugged in devices [ more… ]

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23440 Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23440 to the Dev Channel. We are releasing ISOs for this build – they can be downloaded here. If you miss this month’s Windows Insider webcast featuring the Phone Link team, you can watch it on demand here: https://aka.ms/April2023WIPWebcast. Changes and Improvements [Start menu] We are trying out a recommendation in the Start menu to quickly access the release notes for Windows Insider Preview builds. Insiders can click the recommendation in Start where it will open this blog post for Build 23440 to learn about all the changes and improvements included in the build. Let us know what you think of this experience. As a reminder, the settings for what is recommended on Start can be adjusted via Settings > Personalization > [ more… ]

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23435 Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23435 to the Dev Channel. What’s new in Build 23435 Gallery in File Explorer We are introducing Gallery, a new feature in File Explorer designed to make it easy to access your photo collection. The set of content shown in Gallery is the same as what you’ll see in the All Photos view in the Photos app. Gallery is optimized for accessing your most recently taken photos. If you have OneDrive Camera Roll Backup set up on your phone, photos you take will show up automatically at the top of the view. You can choose which folders are shown in Gallery through the Collection dropdown. You can also add subfolders of existing sources to filter to a subset of your content, [ more… ]

Releasing Windows 11 Build 22621.1631 to the Release Preview Channel Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing Windows 11 Build 22621.1631 (KB5025305) to Insiders in the Release Preview Channel on Windows 11, version 22H2.   This update includes the following features and improvements: New! This update changes firewall settings. You can now configure application group rules. New! This update adds animations to a few icons on the Widgets taskbar button. These animations turn on when: A new announcement appears on the Widgets taskbar button. You hover over or click the Widgets taskbar button. This update affects the Islamic Republic of Iran. The update supports the government’s daylight-saving time change order from 2022. This update addresses an issue that affects the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) process. It might stop responding. Because of this, the machine restarts. The error is 0xc0000005 [ more… ]

Releasing Windows 11 Build 22000.1879 to the Release Preview Channel Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing Windows 11 Build 22000.1879 (KB5025298) to Insiders in the Release Preview Channel on Windows 11 (original release).   This update includes the following improvements: New! This update changes firewall settings. You can now configure application group rules. This update affects the Islamic Republic of Iran. The update supports the government’s daylight-saving time change order from 2022. This update addresses an issue that affects the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) process. It might stop responding. Because of this, the machine restarts. The error is 0xc0000005 (STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION). This update addresses an issue that affects Microsoft Edge IE mode. Pop-up windows open in the background instead of in the foreground. This update addresses an issue that affects Edge IE mode. The Tab Window Manager stops responding. [ more… ]