Microsoft has launched two new Home windows 11 preview builds. One is accessible within the Dev Channel (construct 26200.5722, KB5062669), and one within the Beta Channel (construct 26120.5722, KB5062669), with each sharing a single changelog. Here’s what is new.

The largest change in at this time’s updates is the brand new agent in Settings for Intel and AMD-powered Copilot+ PCs. It enables you to discover and regulate Home windows settings utilizing pure language, even if you happen to have no idea the precise title of the function you want. You possibly can simply inform the Settings app the issue you’ve got, and it’ll attempt to repair it for you.

Different adjustments embody updates to the Second Probability Out of Field Expertise display (SCOOBE), which is now a single-page display with toggles for numerous settings. Click on to Do now has a brand new tutorial for first-time launches, and the left pane of the search leads to the Home windows Search field now has a grid view for associated pictures that match your search.

There may be one long-requested taskbar function. You probably have two screens or extra, the notification heart and the calendar flyout can now be invoked from any show. Additionally, the lately up to date logic for the way in which Process Supervisor calculates CPU utilization is as soon as once more out there for testing.

Right here is the listing of every thing mounted in at this time’s builds:

• [Taskbar]
  • Mounted a difficulty the place the Process View icon within the taskbar could be unexpectedly invisible if you happen to turned it off and again on in Settings (the area was reserved and you would click on it to open Process View, however nothing confirmed within the area).
  • Mounted a race situation which may result in the Widgets icon not displaying within the taskbar though it was enabled in Settings (no area reserved, clicking the realm did nothing).
• [Login and lock]
  • Mounted a difficulty which was inflicting the textual content for lock display widgets to be unreadable in some circumstances as a result of it was white on a lightweight background.
  • Did some work to handle an underlying concern which may result in the taskbar being gradual to load when unlocking your PC after popping out of sleep. This concern may even have led to the password subject and different login display contents not rendering when transitioning from lock display to login display after sleep. For those who proceed experiencing points, please report them within the Suggestions Hub below Set up and Replace > Logon hangs.
• [File Explorer]
  • Mounted a difficulty the place if you happen to tried to make use of the unblock open in Properties for a file, it would nonetheless present as blocked while you opened Properties the following time.
• [Start menu]
  • Mounted a difficulty for these with the brand new Begin menu the place if you happen to used contact to navigate the brand new Begin menu, it wasn’t working reliably. For instance, it didn’t help the swipe-up gesture.
• [Input]
  • Mounted a difficulty which was inflicting the Microsoft Changjie Enter technique to not work correctly within the earlier construct.
  • Mounted a difficulty which was inflicting phonetic keyboards, such because the Hindi Phonetic Enter keyboard and the Marathi Phonetic keyboard, to not work correctly within the earlier construct.
• [Administrator Protection]
  • Mounted an underlying concern the place the Xbox app wouldn’t launch when administrator safety was enabled. This may occasionally have additionally impacted different apps too, exhibiting error 0xC0000142 or 0xC0000045.
• [Settings]
  • Mounted a difficulty the place below Settings > System > Storage > Disks and Volumes there would possibly present a hyperlink for BitLocker drive encryption though it wasn’t supported in that case. Clicking it might lead to BitLocker opening and displaying error 0x80004005.
• [Other]
  • Mounted a difficulty inflicting Insiders to see a number of error pop ups about sudden components when opening Group Coverage Editor.
  • Mounted an underlying concern inflicting a small variety of Insiders to expertise a bugcheck with error DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL within the newest builds.
  • Mounted an underlying concern impacting installers for sure apps on ARM64 PCs, which may lead to an extended stall in the course of the set up course of.
  • Mounted a difficulty the place exterior graphics playing cards linked over Thunderbolt have been unexpectedly not discoverable in some circumstances.

And right here is the listing of recognized points:

• [General]
  • Some Home windows Insiders might expertise a rollback attempting to put in this replace with a 0x80070005 in Home windows Replace. We’re engaged on a repair for Home windows Insiders impacted. If you’re impacted, utilizing Settings > System > Restoration > “Repair points utilizing Home windows replace” might resolve the difficulty.
• [Live Captions]
  • Dwell captions might crash when trying to make use of reside translation on a Copilot+ PC.
• [Xbox Controllers]
  • Some Insiders are experiencing a difficulty the place utilizing their Xbox Controller by way of Bluetooth is inflicting their PC to bugcheck. Right here is how you can resolve the difficulty. Open System Supervisor by looking for it by way of the search field in your taskbar. As soon as System Supervisor is open, click on on “View” after which “Units by Driver”. Discover the driving force named “oemXXX.inf (XboxGameControllerDriver.inf)” the place the “XXX” will probably be a selected quantity in your PC. Proper-click on that driver and click on “Uninstall”.
• [Click to Do (Preview)] The next recognized points will probably be mounted in future updates to Home windows Insiders:
  • Home windows Insiders on AMD or Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs might expertise lengthy wait instances on the primary try and carry out clever textual content actions in Click on to Do after a brand new construct or mannequin replace.

You could find the official bulletins right here and right here.