Microsoft has launched an enormous new characteristic replace for Home windows 11 model 24H2. Right now’s elective launch is accessible as KB5062660 with construct quantity 26100.4770, and it provides loads of new options, together with agentic search in Settings on Copilot+ PCs, Fast Machine Restoration, Recall for customers within the European Financial Space, new Click on to Do actions, File Explorer enhancements, and extra.

Here’s what is rolling out steadily:

• [Recall]
  • New! Recall is now accessible within the European Financial Space (EEA). For more information, see Retrace your steps with Recall. Within the EEA, Recall helps exporting snapshots to share with trusted third-party apps and web sites. When saving snapshots is turned on for the primary time, a novel Recall export code seems. This code is required to decrypt exported snapshots and is proven solely as soon as throughout preliminary setup. Microsoft doesn’t retailer or get better this code. To export, go to Settings > Privateness & Safety > Recall & Snapshots > Superior Settings and authenticate with Home windows Whats up. Select to export previous snapshots (from the final 7 days, 30 days, or all) or begin a steady export. Third-party apps can entry exported snapshots solely when each the export code and folder path are offered. If you happen to lose or compromise the export code, reset Recall to generate a brand new one.
  • New! For all Recall customers worldwide, now you can reset Recall and delete all its information. Go to Settings > Privateness & Safety > Recall & Snapshots to discover a new superior settings web page. There, you’ll see a reset button that deletes all of your snapshots and restores Recall to its default settings.
• [Click to Do]
  • New! Observe in Studying Coach is a brand new Click on to Do textual content motion that helps you enhance studying fluency and pronunciation. Choose textual content in your display, select Observe in Studying Coach, and browse the textual content aloud. Studying Coach offers you suggestions and exhibits the place to enhance. To make use of this characteristic, set up the free Microsoft Studying Coach app from the Microsoft Retailer.
  • New! Learn with Immersive Reader is a brand new textual content motion in Click on to Try this shows textual content in a centered, distraction-free surroundings. It helps enhance studying and writing for all talent ranges and skills. You possibly can alter textual content measurement, spacing, font, and background theme, have textual content learn aloud, break phrases into syllables, and spotlight elements of speech. The image dictionary exhibits pictures for unfamiliar phrases. To make use of this characteristic, set up the free Microsoft Studying Coach software from the Microsoft Retailer.
  • New! With the Draft with Copilot in Phrase textual content motion, you may shortly flip any acknowledged textual content right into a full draft. Whether or not it’s a sentence in an electronic mail or a snippet in your display, press Win + Click on on the acknowledged textual content, then choose Draft with Copilot in Phrase. No extra clean pages. No extra author’s block. Simply momentum. To make use of “Draft with Copilot in Phrase” a Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription is required.
  • New! Click on to Do on Copilot+ PCs now helps actions by way of Microsoft Groups. When you choose an electronic mail handle acknowledged by Click on to Do in your display, you may select to ship a Groups message or schedule a Groups assembly. These choices make it straightforward to ask a query or arrange time to speak with out interrupting your workflow.
• [Settings]
  • New! The brand new agent in Settings is a part of the Copilot+ PC expertise and is designed to deal with some of the frequent frustrations: discovering and altering settings in your PC. You possibly can describe what you need assistance with, reminiscent of “tips on how to management my PC by voice” or “my mouse pointer is just too small,” and the agent will recommend steps to resolve the difficulty. The agent makes use of AI in your PC to know your request and, along with your permission, can automate and full duties for you. This expertise is rolling out to Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PCs, with assist for AMD and Intel™-powered PCs coming quickly. It presently works provided that your main show language is ready to English.
  • New! On non-Copilot+ PCs, the Settings app now exhibits the Search field on the prime middle to make looking out simpler and extra constant.
  • Mounted: In case your PC is ready to ‘Do nothing’ while you shut the lid (beneath Settings > System > Energy and Battery) and the Settings window is left open while you shut the lid, reopening the lid would possibly trigger the Settings window to cease responding. It’d turn into unresponsive to enter or resizing and as an alternative simply show your accent coloration.
  • Mounted: Settings would possibly cease responding while you attempt to save Wi-Fi community credentials.
• [Windows Resiliency Initiative] The next adjustments are a part of the Home windows Resiliency Initiative introduced at Ignite 2024:
  • New! Fast machine restoration is now accessible. When enabled, it robotically detects and fixes widespread points on Home windows 11 gadgets utilizing the Home windows Restoration Atmosphere (WinRE). This reduces downtime and avoids the necessity for guide fixes. If a tool experiences a widespread boot difficulty, it enters WinRE, connects to the web, and Microsoft can ship a focused repair by way of Home windows Replace. IT admins can allow or customise this expertise for his or her group by way of the Intune Settings Catalog UI utilizing the RemoteRemediationCSP. There’s additionally a devoted fast machine restoration settings web page accessible beneath System > Restoration > Fast machine restoration. Right now, it’s enabled by default for residence customers.
  • New! A extra streamlined interface seems throughout an sudden restart. This up to date design aligns with Home windows 11’s visible fashion and helps you come to work quicker. The display shows a extra readable format whereas preserving the technical particulars seen. This display seems with a black background.
• [Start menu] New! We’re including a Boolean choice to the Configure Begin Pins coverage to permit admins to use Begin menu pins as soon as. Which means a consumer will obtain admin pins on day 0 however can then make any adjustments to their Begin pinned format and have these adjustments safeguarded. These adjustments might be optionally utilized by way of the prevailing configuration Service Supplier (CSP).
• [Snap] New! Enhancements make it simpler to be taught and use Snap in Home windows 11. Inline messages now seem while you unintentionally open the Snap Bar by dragging an app to the higher middle of your desktop or open the Snap menu by hovering over the Decrease or Maximize button. These messages present useful recommendations on Snap app home windows and present keyboard shortcuts.
• [Windows Search] New! Home windows Search settings are actually simpler to search out. As an alternative of two separate pages for settings (“Search permissions” and “Looking out Home windows”), you will discover every little thing in a single place beneath Settings > Privateness & safety > Search. This new web page has a contemporary look and a greater format, so you may shortly view and handle all of your Home windows Search settings.
• [Input] New! The Gamepad format of the Home windows contact keyboard now consists of enhanced controller navigation and improved focus dealing with for baby keys, menus, phrase recommendations, language switching, and settings. A brand new Gamepad keyboard, designed for gaming, additionally helps PIN sign-in on the Home windows lock display. It gives controller shortcuts for fast PIN entry and full navigation for individuals who choose to not use shortcuts.
• [File Explorer]
  • Mounted: If you happen to open Extra choices ​​​​​​​ in File Explorer to view the total record of folders for the present path, the dropdown menu may not show fully, making the underside half inaccessible.
  • Mounted: File operation progress dialogs would possibly cease showing when displayed from apps.
  • Mounted: Syncing extra SharePoint websites to File Explorer would possibly sluggish efficiency when navigating folders or opening the context menu. This could additionally have an effect on how shortly information launch.
• [Desktop icons] Mounted: In case you have an app pinned to your desktop and it updates, the app icon may not show accurately and as an alternative present a white web page.
• [Notifications] Mounted: When you choose a Home windows notification, it may not deliver the associated app to the foreground as anticipated—for instance, this will occur with Outlook notifications.

Listed below are the adjustments which are accessible to all customers proper right here and proper now:

• [Authentication] Mounted: This replace addresses a difficulty that impacts the Native Safety Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS). LSASS would possibly cease responding throughout machine password adjustments with particular audit settings.
• [File Explorer] Mounted: File Explorer House would possibly unexpectedly solely show a single folder (for instance, Desktop), slightly than the anticipated content material with current information and extra.
• [File system] Mounted: This replace addresses a difficulty within the Resilient File System (ReFS) the place utilizing backup purposes on giant information might often lead to system reminiscence turning into totally exhausted.
• [Graphics] A difficulty the place exterior graphics playing cards linked by way of Thunderbolt weren’t all the time acknowledged in some circumstances.
• [Input (know issue)]
  • Mounted: A difficulty when utilizing the Microsoft Changjie IME (enter methodology editor) for Conventional Chinese language would possibly trigger issues reminiscent of not with the ability to kind or choose phrases, unresponsive spacebar or clean key, incorrect phrase output, or a damaged candidate window show. This could happen after putting in KB5062553.
  • Mounted: This replace addresses a difficulty that impacts Phonetic enter strategies, together with the Hindi Phonetic Enter keyboard and the Marathi Phonetic keyboard, which could not work accurately after putting in KB5062553.
• [Stability issue] This replace addresses a difficulty noticed in uncommon circumstances after putting in the Might 2025 safety replace and subsequent updates inflicting gadgets to expertise stability points. Some gadgets grew to become unresponsive and stopped responding in particular situations.
• [Windows Firewall] Mounted: This replace addresses a difficulty present in Occasion Viewer as Occasion 2042 for Home windows Firewall with Superior Safety. The occasion seems as “Config Learn Failed” with the message “Extra information is accessible.” For extra details about this difficulty, see “Error occasions are logged for Home windows Firewall” within the Home windows Well being Dashboard.​​​​​​​

You possibly can obtain KB5062660 by heading to Settings > Home windows Replace and clicking “Test for Updates.” The replace can be accessible by way of the Microsoft Replace Catalog.