
Home windows 11 will get a Fb widget and extra File Explorer enhancements
Home windows Insiders are getting a variety of new options for Home windows 11 at this time as Microsoft releases new builds to the Canary, Dev and Beta channels of the Insider program. A lot of the information is within the Dev channel, however there’s one thing for everybody right here, together with a brand new widget for the Fb app.
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Slowly however certainly, the Home windows 11 widget ecosystem is rising, and Fb is now releasing a brand new widget for its predominant app. Fb was one of many first to help the platform with a widget for the Messenger app, however the brand new Fb widget permits you to see all of your notifications from the social community, resembling feedback, new posts and invitations, with out having to to open the appliance.
The Fb widget is out there within the Canary, Dev and Beta channels and you will must be sure to have the most recent model of the Fb app for it to work.
File Explorer will get a extra helpful particulars window
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Completely for Insiders subscribed to the Dev channel, with construct 23451, Microsoft is now testing a modernized particulars window that shows extra details about a file, together with instructed recordsdata that could be associated to it, and even an e mail dialog the place the file or talked about. This new window was talked about a couple of weeks in the past and is lastly beginning to turn out to be out there.
Along with instructed recordsdata and different content material, this new window additionally consists of an exercise historical past for the file and a straightforward share button. Plus, it has a contemporary look that matches the remainder of Home windows 11, making the expertise a bit extra cohesive.
Solely sure Insiders within the Dev Channel will see this expertise for now.
Home windows Highlight enhancements
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Additionally within the Dev channel, Microsoft is making some modifications to the way in which Home windows Highlight is displayed, with a couple of fixes being examined. One will embody a richer consumer interface that reveals extra details about the displayed picture, associated photos, and a minimized and full-screen expertise. Each choices may even embody 4K portrait photos, which can enhance the standard of the Home windows Highlight background picture on high-resolution shows.
The remedy you see is random, so you might discover an even bigger distinction relying on what you get.
Different modifications
Home windows 11 construct 23451 features a handful of different enhancements for Home windows Insiders within the Dev channel. First, the brand new widget choice expertise, beforehand solely out there within the Canary channel, is now out there. This replace additionally provides animated widget icons, which have been beforehand out there on different channels. The Begin menu account notification badge is now extra extensively out there, and Microsoft can also be testing a brand new expertise to point out extra related content material within the Beneficial part of the Begin menu. With this replace, you might even see web site ideas primarily based in your searching historical past.
With reference to accessibility, Microsoft improved the way in which Narrator works with Excel to learn content material extra effectively. In the meantime, fort’s reside subtitle help has been prolonged to extra nations and dialects.
The Canary channel additionally has some attention-grabbing information, as the brand new audio mixer will now be out there to everybody with model 25357.
Fixes and enhancements in Home windows 11 (Dev) model 23451
In case you’re within the developer channel, Home windows 11 construct 23451 additionally consists of the next fixes and enhancements:
[Taskbar & System Tray]
- Fastened an explorer.exe bug affecting taskbar reliability.
- Fastened a problem that generally triggered Fast Settings and their venture choices to turn out to be unresponsive when utilizing ALT + F4 to shut them.
[Start menu]
- Fastened a problem that triggered the Beneficial on Startup part to be empty the primary time it was opened.
[File Explorer]
We fastened the next points for Insiders who previewed the Home windows App SDK model of File Explorer
- We fastened an underlying challenge that was believed to be inflicting explorer.exe to crash when opening the context menu within the earlier flight for some Insiders.
- In case you are utilizing an Arabic or Hebrew show language, the tabs ought to show appropriately now.
We fastened the next points for Insiders with Gallery in File Explorer:
- Fastened a problem the place the scrollbar for the Gallery was displayed on the flawed aspect for Insiders with Arabic or Hebrew show languages.
- If in case you have the Merchandise Verify Packing containers setting enabled, the Gallery will now show checkboxes on photos.
[Search]
- Some work has been completed to repair an underlying challenge that might trigger Search to get caught and never open. When this occurred, you may additionally see a delay in opening the Begin menu.
[Input]
- Fastened a problem the place the Pinyin IME textual content enter button was not displayed appropriately in some circumstances.
- Fastened an underlying bug affecting the power to launch the touchpad / PIN entry on the login display screen.
[Notifications]
- Fastened one other 2FA code sample not being acknowledged. In case you see extra, please remark!
[Live captions]
- Fastened a problem the place subtitle characters displayed on the second line of the default peak window have been truncated on the high.
- Options have been added to the improved speech recognition language recordsdata to enhance efficiency and supply extra-language filtering to scale back false subtitles for non-subtitled speech.
[Accessibility]
- Fastened a problem the place utilizing the down key when navigating by landmark with Narrator in Edge wouldn’t appropriately soar to the primary row of the landmark.
As for these within the Beta channel, Home windows 11 construct 22624.1690 (and 22621.1690) consists of the next fixes and enhancements:
Adjustments and enhancements in Construct 22621.1690 & Construct 22624.1690
[General]
- We attempt to present notifications in Settings > Accounts advising customers so as to add a restoration e mail deal with or telephone quantity to their Microsoft account to make sure they by no means lose entry to their account.
[Start menu]
- We’re testing a small change with some Home windows Insiders the place the “Beneficial” part of the Begin menu is modified to “For You”. Tell us what you assume within the Suggestions Hub when you see this modification.
Fixes in Construct 22624.1690
[Input]
- One other repair was made for the underlying bug affecting the power to launch the touchpad / PIN entry on the login display screen.
[Notifications]
- Fastened one other 2FA code sample not being acknowledged. In case you see extra, please remark!
[Task Manager]
- Labored a bit to assist deal with a problem that generally triggered random processes to be grouped collectively beneath Microsoft Edge despite the fact that they’re unrelated.
- Fastened a problem affecting the reliability of Activity Supervisor.
- The search icon must be simpler to see now when utilizing a distinction theme.
- Made the navigation window a bit narrower. As a part of this modification, textual content will now wrap when essential.
- The create kernel reside dump file submenu now has entry keys.
- Urgent enter when keyboard focus is on one of many sections (resembling Reminiscence) on the Efficiency web page ought to now swap sections.
- Resizing the Activity Supervisor from the highest of the window ought to work now.
As standard, Canary builds do not include an in depth changelog. In case you are subscribed to any of those channels, you will get these updates now by going to the Settings app and checking for updates. They may even be put in mechanically in the end.