Microsoft today released a new Dev channel build to Insiders. The official change log mostly highlights various fixes and general improvements. For new features, the company mentioned a new style of tips that help the user use the search efficiently.
The full build tag is 10.0.25236.1000 (rs_prerelease.221028-1618). Here are the key changes.
What's new in Windows 11 Build 25236
New features
Microsoft is trying out different ways to provide tips on how to use Windows Search via the taskbar. However, this change is exclusive to a select group of US-based Insiders.
Fixes
Narrator
Microsoft fixed the issue causing natural voices such as Microsoft David or Mark to not speak in Narrator.
Taskbar & System Tray
- Fixed an issue where if you opened the hidden icons flyout, it caused a File Explorer entry for it to appear in the taskbar.
- Fixed an issue that was causing the taskbar previews to freeze or show as blank and not open when using Windows key + (#) key commands to try and switch between windows.
- The show hidden icons flyout in the system tray should now responsively resize with changes again to prevent empty spaces and columns.
- Fixed multiple issues related to the taskbar which were impacting explorer.exe reliability.
- Fixed an issue that was causing the volume icon in the system tray to incorrectly show as muted.
- Fixed a GDI handle leak related to updating the notification center icon in the taskbar, which would eventually lead to an explorer.exe crash for people who received a large number of notifications.
- Narrator will now announce the pinned and unpinned status of apps in the taskbar.
File Explorer
- Fixed an issue which was making File Explorer crash when closing tabs for some people.
- Made another fix for an issue which could cause errant divider lines in File Explorer’s navigation pane.
Settings
- Made a change to hide the battery graph on the Power & Battery page if a UPS is connected, as the capacity information it displayed in that case wasn’t correct.
- If you don’t have a kiosk set up, there is now an updated the text on Accounts > Other Users > Kiosk to make it clearer you need to do that, so it doesn’t appear to be a dead end.
- Fixed an issue where if you went into the properties for an audio device, this could make it unexpectedly show in the output devices list on System > Sound although it was actually an input device.
- In the accessibility settings for color filters, the inverted option should work correctly again now and not just set your PC to grayscale colors.
Other
- Fixed an issue causing some Insiders to see a bugcheck with error SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED in recent builds.
Traditionally for a Dev channel build, there are known issues, plenty of them. You will find the list in the official announcement linked here.
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