Microsoft is shifting Home windows 11 Beta Insiders to model 24H2 as we speak, and the primary launch, construct 26120.3964 (KB5058496), brings some massive new adjustments, like an AI agent within the Settings app, new Click on to Do options on Intel and AMD-powered Copilot+ PCs, and different adjustments.

Here’s what is new:

New Copilot+ PC experiences

Introducing the brand new agent in Settings

Final week, we introduced a change to Settings designed to assist clear up one of the widespread frustrations we heard: discovering and altering settings in your PC. With this replace to Settings, it is possible for you to to easily describe what you need assistance with like, “the right way to management my PC by voice” or “my mouse pointer is just too small” and the agent will suggest the precise steps you may take to deal with the problem. An agent makes use of AI in your PC to grasp your intent and along with your permission, automate and execute duties in your behalf. This expertise is rolling out to Home windows Insiders on Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PCs with help for AMD- and Intel™-powered PCs coming quickly. Please word that this expertise works in case your main show language is ready to English.

Clever textual content actions in Click on to Do for AMD and Intel™-powered Copilot+ PCs

We’re introducing extra clever textual content actions to boost your Click on to Do expertise even additional on AMD and Intel™-powered Copilot+ PCs. Use WIN key + mouse-click or WIN + Q to pick a textual content block after which drag to pick the textual content that you really want. You’ll see choices to Summarize, Create a bulleted record, or that can assist you Rewrite your textual content, so it sounds extra causal, extra formal, or extra polished.

Click on to Do leverages the capabilities of Phi Silica, the on-device Small Language Mannequin (SLM) that’s constructed proper into Home windows. Outcomes from our native mannequin will present straight inline and if you happen to’re proud of the rewrites you may copy them on to your clipboard to be used anyplace.

The clever textual content actions can be found when your default language is ready to English, at the least 10 phrases are chosen, and also you’re signed in with both a Microsoft account or Microsoft Entra account. You’ll be able to be taught extra about utilizing Click on to Do right here.

Adjustments and Enhancements regularly being rolled out to the Dev Channel with toggle on

[Click to Do (Preview)]

• ⁠For Home windows Insiders utilizing French or Spanish as their main language on their PC, Click on to Do will briefly solely present Summarize, Create a bulleted record, Refine as clever textual content actions. Rewrite and its choices, together with Refine, will return in a future replace.

[Dynamic Lighting]

• Dynamic Lighting appropriate units can now be safely eliminated utilizing the “Safely Take away {Hardware} and Eject Media” taskbar icon.

[Settings]

• We’re making it simple to seek out solutions to widespread questions on your PC and Home windows 11 with a devoted FAQs part on the Settings > System > About web page, offering fast and useful insights for utilizing your PC multi function place. Whether or not you’re interested by system configuration, efficiency, or compatibility, this expertise ensures you get the data you want for the regularly requested questions for these subjects. We hope these FAQs will show you how to make knowledgeable choices about your PC with ease.

Here’s what was fastened:

Fixes regularly being rolled out to the Beta Channel with toggle on

[Start menu]

• Fastened a number of crashes impacting Begin menu reliability for Insiders in latest flights.

[File Explorer]

• Fastened a impasse which may happen when loading File Explorer Dwelling, inflicting it to hold.
• Fastened a problem the place Shared by and Exercise data was lacking within the tooltip when hovering over latest paperwork in File Explorer Dwelling.
• Fastened a problem which may trigger explorer.exe to crash when closing File Explorer.

[Voice Access]

• Fastened a problem which was inflicting voice entry crashes when utilizing Spanish.

[Taskbar]

• Fastened a problem the place when utilizing Tab and Shift + Tab to maneuver keyboard focus across the taskbar, if you happen to went backwards at the least as soon as you could possibly get keyboard focus caught on the taskbar body, which might probably lead display screen readers to only say “pane”.
• Fastened a problem which may trigger the media controls within the preview home windows for apps within the taskbar (that help it) to flicker.

[Windows Spotlight]

• Fastened a problem the place the Home windows Highlight flyout for “be taught extra about this image” (when utilizing it as your desktop background) would possibly get caught above different app home windows.

[Live captions]

• Fastened a problem inflicting dwell captions to crash within the earlier construct.

[Other]

• Improved the colours utilized in MMC when objects are chosen, each typically, and when distinction modes are enabled.
• Fastened an underlying challenge which may make some apps like Phrase hold when attempting to print.

Lastly, right here is the record of identified points:

[General]

• After you do a PC reset underneath Settings > System > Restoration, your construct model might incorrectly present as Construct 26100 as an alternative of Construct 26200. This won’t forestall you from getting future Beta Channel updates, which is able to resolve this challenge.

• We’re engaged on the repair for a problem the place core Home windows surfaces are usually not in a position to load in secure mode (File Explorer, Begin menu, and others) after the earlier flight.

• [NEW] The choice to reset your PC underneath Settings > System > Restoration won’t work on this construct.

[Xbox Controllers]

• Some Insiders are experiencing a problem the place utilizing their Xbox Controller through Bluetooth is inflicting their PC to bugcheck. Right here is the right way to resolve the problem. Open System Supervisor by trying to find it through the search field in your taskbar. As soon as System Supervisor is open, click on on “View” after which “Gadgets by Driver”. Discover the motive force named “oemXXX.inf (XboxGameControllerDriver.inf)” the place the “XXX” shall be a selected quantity in your PC. Proper-click on that driver and click on “Uninstall”.

[Recall (Preview)]

[REMINDER] You’re all the time in management and may all the time select to take away Recall anytime through “Flip Home windows options on or off”. Eradicating Recall will delete entry factors and binaries. Like every characteristic, Home windows generally retains momentary copies of binaries for serviceability. These Recall binaries are usually not executable and are finally eliminated over time.

[REMINDER] Be sure you replace Microsoft 365 apps to the most recent model so you may leap again into particular paperwork.

[Click to Do (Preview)]

[REMINDER] The clever textual content actions at the moment are domestically moderated to make sure the protection of prompts and responses and has changed the cloud endpoint. Now that these clever textual content actions are totally native, they’re additionally out there in Click on to Do in Recall.

[REMINDER] If any of your actions on picture entities are now not showing, please guarantee you’ve gotten the most recent updates for the Images and Paint app from the Microsoft Retailer.

The next identified points shall be fastened in future updates to Home windows Insiders:

• [NEW] Picture actions might not present up in Click on to Do.
• [NEW] 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.

[Improved Windows Search]

[REMINDER] For improved Home windows Search on Copilot+ PCs, it is suggested that you simply plug in your Copilot+ PC for the preliminary search indexing to get accomplished. You’ll be able to verify your search indexing standing underneath Settings > Privateness & safety > Looking out Home windows.

[Start menu]

• We’re investigating experiences that clicking your profile image isn’t opening the Account Supervisor for some Insiders after the final flight.

[Task Manager]

• After including the brand new CPU Utility column, you could discover that System Idle Course of all the time reveals as 0.
• The CPU graphs within the Efficiency web page are nonetheless utilizing the previous CPU utility calculations.

[Narrator]

• [NEW] We’re investigating a problem the place the richer picture descriptions in your Copilot+ PC with Narrator don’t work.

[Voice Access]

• [NEW] We’re investigating a problem the place help for extra descriptive and versatile language on Copilot+ PCs doesn’t work as anticipated.

Yow will discover the official announcement right here.