Howdy Home windows Insiders, immediately we’re releasing Home windows 11 Insider Preview Construct 25174 to the Dev Channel.
TL;DR
- We’re previewing the brand new Sport Cross widget with Home windows Insiders within the Dev Channel.
- As at all times, this construct additionally features a good set of fixes.
- We’ve added a couple of new identified points primarily based on Home windows Insider suggestions.
What’s new
Introducing the brand new Sport Cross Widget
PC Sport Cross and Home windows are a unbelievable mixture for gaming; with PC Sport Cross, you’ve got entry to lots of of high-quality video games on your PC. For the previous couple of months, we’ve been working with our mates on the Xbox group to make Home windows and PC Sport Cross a fair higher mixture; immediately we’re saying one thing new for gaming and our widgets expertise: the Sport Cross widget preview.
This widget is a window to the intensive PC Sport Cross library – it’s going to present the newest additions, video games leaving quickly, and others from highlighted classes after which take you to the Xbox app the place you may set up them, see evaluations, and go all in.
We’re nonetheless onerous at work on some thrilling performance coming quickly that may allow you to sign-into your Xbox profile and simply bounce again into just lately performed video games in addition to see customized suggestions of video games we imagine you’ll love.
The Sport Cross widget preview is accessible within the widgets board alongside different widgets that convey climate, sports activities, and different nice content material nearer to you. The widgets board is proven by clicking the left nook of your taskbar or by urgent Win + W. To pin the Sport Cross widget, choose the ‘+’ button within the high proper nook of the widgets board.
Right here is find out how to get began:
- Open the widgets board.
- Click on on the + icon subsequent to your consumer profile.
- Click on on the + icon in addition to the Sport Cross
- Shut the Widget settings window.
- The Sport Cross widget ought to now seem in your widgets board.
We’re trying ahead to getting suggestions on the Sport Cross widget from Home windows Insiders who’re PC players. Inform us what you’d like to see within the widget, or for those who see something that’s unusual or surprising on the widget itself or on the widgets expertise.
[We are beginning to roll this out, so the experience isn’t available to all Insiders just yet as we plan to monitor feedback and see how it lands before pushing it out to everyone.]
FEEDBACK: Please file suggestions in Suggestions Hub (WIN + F) below Desktop Atmosphere > Widgets.
Modifications and Enhancements
[File Explorer]
- Center clicking a folder within the navigation pane of File Explorer will now open it in a brand new tab, like clicking a folder within the physique of File Explorer already does. Please word that this requires tabbed File Explorer, which hasn’t rolled out to everybody within the Dev Channel but.
Fixes
[File Explorer]
- Mounted a difficulty which might trigger explorer.exe to crash when opening new File Explorer home windows.
- Mounted a difficulty the place launching File Explorer in sure methods when utilizing darkish mode (for instance, from the command line) was exhibiting the physique of File Explorer unexpectedly in mild mode.
- Mounted a difficulty the place the left/proper arrows in File Explorer have been in mild mode whenever you have been utilizing darkish mode, inflicting them to not have sufficient distinction to point out once they have been enabled.
- Mounted a difficulty the place the dividers within the navigation pane have been overlapping / drawing too near textual content typically.
- Mounted a difficulty the place for those who drag and drop a folder into the navigation pane was typically unexpectedly placing the folder on the backside of the record fairly than the place you’d dropped it.
- Mounted a difficulty inflicting UI points in File Explorer when utilizing F11 to place File Explorer in full display mode.
[Taskbar]
- Mounted a difficulty main to numerous system tray parts being unexpectedly lacking for some Insiders on the earlier construct.
[Settings]
- Mounted a crash on some PCs have been experiencing when going to System > Storage > Disks & Volumes.
[Other]
- Mounted a difficulty which was resulting in mouse and keyboard enter not working accurately in sure video games within the final 2 flights.
- Mounted a difficulty believed to be resulting in SQL Server Administration Studio failing to launch for some Insiders.
- Mounted a difficulty the place Reminiscence Integrity in Home windows Safety may present a warning saying it couldn’t be enabled resulting from incompatible drivers, however the incompatible drivers record could be clean.
- Mounted a difficulty which was inflicting some apps to unexpectedly not launch in the previous couple of flights when core isolation was enabled in Home windows Safety.
NOTE: Some fixes famous right here in Insider Preview builds from the Dev Channel could make their approach into the servicing updates for the launched model of Home windows 11.
Recognized points
[General]
- Some video games that use Simple Anti-Cheat could crash or trigger your PC to bugcheck.
- [NEW] We’re trying into studies that audio stopped working for some Insiders after upgrading to the final flight.
- [NEW] We’re engaged on a repair for a difficulty resulting in some Insiders experiencing a lower in FPS when taking part in sure video games in latest flights because of the fallacious graphics card getting used.
- [NEW] We’re investigating studies of some totally different apps having began crashing in latest builds.
[File Explorer]
- The left-half of the File Explorer title bar might not be draggable by way of mouse or contact.
- The up arrow is misaligned in File Explorer tabs. This shall be mounted in a future replace.
- [NEW] We’re engaged on a repair for a difficulty inflicting Dwelling, Paperwork, Photos and doubtlessly different folders to turn out to be unexpectedly duplicated in File Explorer’s navigation pane or seem on the desktop.
- [NEW] We’re engaged on a repair for a difficulty the place the search field background in File Explorer may be the alternative colour of your present mode.
- [NEW] We’re engaged on a repair for a difficulty inflicting the delete key to unexpectedly not work on information in File Explorer. For those who encounter this, you need to nonetheless be capable of use the context menu to delete.
[Widgets]
- Notification badge quantity could seem misaligned on the taskbar.
- In some circumstances, the notification banner for some badging won’t seem within the widgets board.
- We’re engaged on the repair for a difficulty inflicting Widgets preferences (temperature items and pinned widgets) to unexpectedly get reset to default.
[Printing]
- [NEW] We’re engaged on a repair for a difficulty inflicting hangs and crashes when attempting to print from sure apps (like Excel) within the final flight.
- [NEW] We’re investigating studies in latest Dev Channel flights strains aren’t included when printing tables from sure apps.
For builders
You possibly can obtain the newest Home windows Insider SDK at aka.ms/windowsinsidersdk.
SDK NuGet packages at the moment are additionally flighting at NuGet Gallery | WindowsSDK which embody:
These NuGet packages present extra granular entry to the SDK and higher combine in CI/CD pipelines.
In regards to the Dev Channel
The Dev Channel receives builds that characterize lengthy lead work from our engineers with options and experiences which will by no means get launched as we check out totally different ideas and get suggestions. It is very important keep in mind that the builds we launch to the Dev Channel shouldn’t be seen as matched to any particular launch of Home windows and the options included could change over time, be eliminated, or changed in Insider builds or could by no means be launched past Home windows Insiders to basic clients. For extra data, please learn this weblog publish about how we plan to make use of the Dev Channel to incubate new concepts, work on lengthy lead gadgets, and management the states of particular person options.
These aren’t at all times secure builds, and typically you will note points that block key actions or require workarounds. It is very important be sure to learn the identified points listed in our weblog posts as we doc many of those points with every flight.
Construct numbers are larger within the Dev Channel than the Home windows 11 preview builds within the Beta and Launch Preview Channels. You won’t be able to modify from the Dev Channel to the Beta or Launch Preview Channels with out doing a clear set up again to the launched model of Home windows 11 presently.
ALSO: As a result of the Dev and Beta Channels characterize parallel improvement paths from our engineers, there could also be circumstances the place options and experiences present up within the Beta Channel first.
The desktop watermark you see on the decrease proper nook of your desktop is regular for these pre-release builds.
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Thanks,
Amanda & Brandon
