What’s New in Windows 10 Build 16232

A few days ago, Microsoft made available a new build for Fast Ring insiders. Windows 10 Build 16232 comes with a number of interesting changes which can be useful for home and corporate users. Let's see what has changed.

Improvements to Windows Defender Application Guard in Edge

Microsoft Edge now supports the persisted data while using Application Guard. Once enabled, data such as your favorites, cookies, and saved passwords will be persisted across Application Guard sessions. The  will be not be shared or surfaced on the host, but it will be available for future Microsoft Edge in Application Guard sessions. This feature needs to be enabled in Group Policy, under Windows Components > Windows Defender Application Guard.

Exploit Protection

After upgrading to this build, you can find these settings by opening the Windows Defender Security Center and going to the App & browser control page:

• Either right-click the icon in the notification area on the taskbar and click Open, or search via the Start menu for Windows Defender Security Center
• From Windows Defender Security Center, click on App & browser control and then scroll to the bottom of the resulting screen to find Exploit Protection

Controlled folder access

Controlled folder access monitors the changes that apps make to files in certain protected folders. If an app attempts to make a change to these files, and the app is blacklisted by the feature, you’ll get a notification about the attempt. You can complement the protected folders with additional locations, and add the apps that you want to allow access to those folders. It makes it easier for you to protect valuable data from malicious apps and threats, such as ransomware. To enable the feature, search for and open the Windows Defender Security Center from Start, go to the Virus & threat protection settings section, and set the switch to On:

Changes, improvements, and fixes

• We fixed the issue that was causing updating to the latest build to fail and roll back to the previous build if you had the .NET 3.5 Framework installed. You should no longer need to uninstall .NET 3.5 before trying to update to this build.
• We fixed an issue for those with certain languages installed in the last flight where ctfmon.exe would go into a crash loop, resulting in typing in the Start menu and UWP apps becoming impossible.
• We’ve listened to feedback and in Windows Defender Security Center you will soon have the option to dismiss recommendations (yellow badged items). In this build, you will see the upcoming addition however it is under construction and not up and running yet.  Stay tuned and we’ll let you know when we have it finished.
• We fixed an issue where some games like Mass Effect 3 would crash if you used Alt + TAB after 5 minutes of game play.
• We fixed an issue resulting in Word 2016 crashing if you attempted to ink in it.
• We fixed an issue where using the new Ctrl + Win + C hotkey to enable and disable color filters would unexpectedly open Settings.
• We fixed an issue from the last flight where auto-complete in the URL bar of Microsoft Edge might fail on some devices – searching for a partial string instead of the autocompleted text. This fix should also address the feedback some of you were reporting where Cortana sometimes couldn’t keep up with typing on that flight and the letters would end up out of order.
• We fixed an issue where the File Explorer Ribbon assets were blurry if the window’s DPI was not equal to the system DPI.
• We fixed an issue resulting in apps that start with X, V or Q being incorrectly categorized in Start on Polish builds.
• We’ve moved the new Video Playback Settings page to now be listed under the Apps category, and have fixed the issues on the page where the video and battery dropdown weren’t displaying correctly.
• We fixed an issue with the XAML Acrylic Brush that could result in certain apps, for example Maps, occasionally crashing due to attempting to load acrylic brushes while the app was suspended.
• We fixed a rare condition that could result in Start menu appearing to flash/flicker continuously.

Known issues

• Your PC may fail to update to this build with an 0x80070643 and rolls back to the previous build. We are investigating.
• We’re continuing to investigate reports that the battery status on certain laptops isn’t updating while the device is unplugged. If you think you are seeing this, please send in feedback via Feedback Hub and use the capture feature when logging your feedback so we can get your logs.
• You may notice some of your inbox apps are now displaying a name that looks like “ms-resource:” and are listed at the bottom of Start. We’re investigating. In the meantime, the app should still launch normally, it’s only the name resource that’s impacted.
• Some UWP apps such as Twitter will crash on launch.
• Xbox Live in-game experiences may fail to load. These include gamer profiles, achievement details, and other dialogs that may pop up on top of an Xbox Live-enabled game.
• Please avoid doing a PC reset via Settings > Update & security > Recovery and choosing “Remove everything”. This may put your device into a reboot loop.
• Task Manager may hang on launch on this build.

Source: Microsoft.

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