Category: Windows 11

Microsoft shipped Windows 11 earlier this month without one key feature the company promised: Android app support. Microsoft is currently testing Android apps in Windows 11 internally, and the company plans to ship the feature to Windows insiders soon. There is not much information about how Windows 11 will work with Android applications. All we know is that Microsoft partnered with Amazon to offer users an option to install Android apps from the Amazon App Store. Also, Windows 11 might support installing Android apps from other sources.

You can open the classic Disk Cleanup tool in Windows 11 if you prefer the cleanmgr.exe tool over Settings. In Windows 11, Microsoft introduced an improved version of the Storage Sense tool that takes care of your drive and ensures it never runs out of free space.

Here's how to add TPM to a VMWare Player virtual machine to install Windows 11. A few weeks ago, Microsoft started enforcing Windows 11 hardware requirements for Virtual Machines, making many VMs incompatible and unable to receive further Dev builds due to missing TPM support. Although Pro-level virtualization software supports Trusted Platform Module (VMWare Workstation Pro or Parallels Desktop), popular free alternatives miss that feature. Oracle is currently working on a TPM passthrough driver for its VirtualBox virtual machines, and VMWare Workstation Player (the free version of Workstation Pro) now offers Windows 11-compatible software TPM.

Microsoft releases a new Insider Preview Build 22000.282 to Insiders on the Beta and Release Preview channels. It is a patch available via Windows Update in form of a cumulative update. And it comes with a huge list of various fixes and improvements.

Here is how you can change the DPI display scaling in Windows 11. Increasing or decreasing the display scaling in Windows 11 is how you make UI elements in Windows 11 smaller or bigger. Windows 11 calculates the scaling factor for your monitor automatically, that may not follow you preferences, especially if you have a large display with a high resolution.

One of the changes Microsoft promised for Windows 11 users was a completely overhauled set of "3D" emojis. After several months of waiting, Microsoft finally delivered the promised redesign. Yesterday, Microsoft released a new Dev build for Windows insiders with the new emojis. After installing the build, users quickly discovered that reality is often disappointing and the new emojis have little in common with those Microsoft promised to deliver.

Microsoft has updated the official Windows 11 Health Dashboard website, where the company keeps track of all known and confirmed issues with its latest operating system. Initially, when Microsoft launched Windows 11 on October 5, 2021, the list of known bugs consisted of three compatibility problems: issues with Intel's Killer Wi-Fi cards, issues with Oracle VirtualBox, and problems with apps that use non-ASCII characters in their registry keys. A couple of days after shipping the first cumulative update for Windows 11, Microsoft added new information to the issue tracker.

Along with Build 22478, Microsoft today introduced a new way to patch the Windows Update services on Windows 11. Update Stack Package will deliver new update improvements outside of major OS updates.

Microsoft today released a new build from the Dev channel to Insiders. Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22478 is now available via the Windows Update service.  It comes from the RS_PRERELEASE branch, which is not tied to a specific Windows release. Such builds have all the bleeding edge changes and also show a desktop watermark.