Category: Windows 11

The recently released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.2992 (Dev channel) includes a hidden Battery Percentage feature. It adds a text value of the battery power that will appear next to the battery icon on the taskbar. Earlier, you could only find the value by hovering with you mouse pointer over the battery icon on the taskbar. Now it can be enabled to be visible all the time.

Microsoft today released Windows 11 Build 26120.2992 (KB5050083) to insiders in the Dev channel. It comes with a huge number of improvements made to the OS, apps, and Copilot+ capabilities. Here are the details.

Windows 11 Build 22631.4825 is now available in the Release Preview Channel. This update introduces several enhancements and fixes, including improvements in the Taskbar, File Explorer, and many other inbox apps. Additionally, there are fixes related to Remote Desktop and other system reliability improvements.

Microsoft has released a new preview Windows 11 version 23H2, build 22635.4800 (KB5050085) to Windows Insiders in the Beta channel. It sports hardware info tiles in Settings, Widgets that support "existing web contents", Support for third-party search engines in Search for the European Economic Area (EEA), and some fixes.

Microsoft has announced that upgrading to Windows 11 for Windows 10 PCs will be free for users not for a limited time, but forever.

Microsoft has released Windows 11 Build 27774 to Windows Insider program participants using the Canary channel. The update brings with it a secured Administrator account, an additional confirmation for drive formatting in the setup program, and some fixes.

Microsoft today released Windows 11 Build 27768 to Insiders in the Canary channel. It includes some quality-of-life improvements, allows creating new folders from Navigation Pane, and changing time zone settings for standard user accounts.

Device information cards are coming to the Settings app of Windows 11 23H2. The latest Beta channel build 22635.4660 includes a row of hardware information tiles on the System > About page. By default the change is hidden, but can be activated with help of ViVeTool.

Windows 11 Build 22635.4660 is now available in the Beta channel of the Insider program. But all the changes in this release are only available to users with the "Get the latest updates as soon as they're available" toggle turned on. Also, this builds kills Suggested Actions. Here are the details.

Microsoft has released the first update for the Canary channel in 2025. It is Windows 11 Build 27766, and it fixes a couple of build upgrade issues, and fixes bugs in File Explorer.