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  1. WhiskeyOmega

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    Build 22518

    TL;DR

    • This build will not be offered to ARM64 PCs due to an issue that causes these devices to rollback when attempting to update to this build. We’re working on a fix.
    • This build has several new features for Windows Insiders to try out including Spotlight collection backgrounds, an updated entry point for Widgets with weather, and voice access.
    • We’re making it easier to install WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) from the Microsoft Store.
    • This build includes some general changes including updates to the input switcher.
    • We also have a good set of fixes but a few new known issues – please read these sections below!
    • Yesterday, we released the redesigned Notepad to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. See this blog post for all the details.
    What’s new in Build 22518
    View the world on your desktop with Spotlight collection
    Keep your desktop fresh and inspiring with Spotlight collection. You will get beautiful new desktop pictures from around the world every day and fun facts about each picture. Here is how you can try out Spotlight collection:

    1. Right-click on your desktop and choose “Personalize”.
    2. On the Personalization settings page, choose “Background”.
    3. Under the “Personalize your background” dropdown, select “Spotlight collection”.
    Upon enabling Spotlight collection, you will see an inspiring picture from Whitehaven Beach in Australia on your desktop as well as the Spotlight icon.

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    Right-click on the Spotlight icon on your desktop to switch to between Spotlight pictures or tell us whether you like or dislike a picture.
    Later in the day, we will replace Whitehaven Beach with a collection of up to five background pictures from around the world. This could take up to 24 hours. If you hover over the Spotlight icon, you can learn more about each picture. Right-clicking on the Spotlight icon on the desktop opens a context menu where you can switch to a different background picture as well as tell us whether you like or don’t like one of the pictures. Double-clicking on the Spotlight icon launches the landing page where you can learn even more about any of the Spotlight collection pictures you saw throughout the day.

    Please note the Spotlight collection experience is not yet localized and will show text in English only. Full localization will come in a future update. Spotlight collection is available to Windows Insiders in the following countries: Australia, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Norway, Spain, Sweden, U.K., U.S. More countries will be added over time.

    Updated entry point for Widgets on your taskbar
    We are trying out showing the Widgets entry point on the left side of your taskbar with live weather content. You can also open the Widgets board by simply hovering over the entry point.

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    We’re trying out showing the Widgets entry point, with weather, on the left side of the taskbar.
    For users who choose to align their taskbar, the Widgets entry point will be to the right of the Task view icon.

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    How the Widgets icon looks on a left-aligned taskbar with weather.
    Group policies and the ability to show/hide the Widgets button from the taskbar remains unchanged.

    We’re trying this out so let us know what you think and check out the known issues below for some issues we’re aware of for this experience.

    [We are beginning to roll this change out, so it isn’t available to all Insiders just yet as we plan to monitor feedback and see how it lands before pushing it out to everyone.]

    Introducing Voice Access
    Voice access is a new experience that enables everyone, including people with mobility disabilities, to control their PC and author text using their voice. For example, voice access supports scenarios like opening and switching between apps, browsing the web, and reading and authoring mail. Voice access leverages modern, on-device speech recognition to accurately recognize speech and is supported without an internet connection. Voice access supports English-U.S. language only, so the Windows display language should be set to English-U.S., otherwise voice access may not work as expected.

    Get started

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    You can enable voice access under Settings > Accessibility > Speech.
    You can find voice access in Settings > Accessibility > Speech. When you turn on voice access for the first time, it will prompt you to download a speech model for the on-device speech recognition. Once it is downloaded, you can choose a microphone you want to use with voice access and start using your voice to control your PC.

    You can choose to auto start voice access the next time you sign-in to your PC in settings. You can also use voice commands or keyboard shortcuts (Alt + Shift + C and Alt + Shift + B) to control whether voice access is listening or not listening.

    To do this Say this
    Get voice access to start listening to you “Voice access wake up”, “Unmute”
    Put voice access to sleep
    (It’ll only respond to “voice access wake up” command) “Voice access sleep”, “Mute”
    Completely stop voice access from listening to you
    (You can use mouse or keyboard to click on the microphone button to change its state) “Turn off microphone”
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    Interactive guide showing the page titled “working with controls and options with instructions on the left and practice area on the right.
    Voice access includes an interactive guide that explains how to complete common tasks using your voice.

    In addition to the interactive guide, you can access a complete list of commands by asking “what can I say?” when voice access is listening. You can also access the complete set of voice access commands here.

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    Desktop showing voice access UI at the top of the screen with voice access in listening state.
    Voice access gives real-time feedback of what voice access heard so that you know which word was not recognized correctly.

    Navigate Windows with your voice

    You can navigate and interact with Windows, including opening and switching applications using your voice. You can also emulate your standard inputs like keyboard and mouse via voice.

    Changes and Improvements
    • Starting with today’s build we’re rolling out an underlying platform change to improve the overall performance and reliability of the input switcher for Insiders using multiple keyboard languages and layouts. In addition to this, we’re updating the input switcher to now have an acrylic background. If you have any feedback for the input switcher, please file it in the Feedback Hub under Input and Language > Keyboard and language switching. [We are beginning to roll this change out, so it isn’t available to all Insiders just yet as we plan to monitor feedback and see how it lands before pushing it out to everyone.]
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    Input switcher UI with acrylic background.
    • Updated the context menu in File Explorer to make these options top level based on feedback:
      • “Install” when right clicking on font files and .inf files.
      • “Install certificate” when right clicking on .cer files.
      • “Map network drive” and “Disconnect network drive” when right clicking on This PC.
      • “Disconnect” when right clicking on network drives.
    • The ability for personalized combinations of emoji based on face and skin tones of family members, couples with heart, kissing, and people holding hands which we began rolling out with Build 22504 is now available to all Insiders in the Dev Channel.
    • Starting with Build 22509, we began rolling out a change to display your clock and date will now also be displayed on the taskbars of the secondary monitor or monitors. This is now available to all Insiders in the Dev Channel.
    • We’ve added a new extra-large candidate height option for Simplified Chinese IME users under Personalization > Text Input in Settings.
    Fixes
    [Taskbar]

    • Fixed an explorer.exe crash related to having websites pinned to the Taskbar.
    [Search]

    • Did some work to help address an issue where an invisible window frame for the recent searches flyout could end up stuck on the screen, consuming input in that area.
    • When you’re hovering over items in the recent searches flyout, truncated text in the flyout (for example, when using the accessibility setting to make text larger) will now have a tooltip so you can see the full text.
    • Improved visibility of the text in the recent searches flyout if a contrast mode was enabled.
    • The recent searches flyout now has an accessible name when a screen reader sets focus to it, instead of just saying button.
    • Fixed an issue which was causing the search icon in the recent searches icon to become a garbage character for people using the Chinese display language.
    • Fixed a high hitting Search crash.
    • Did some work to help reduce the likelihood of keystrokes getting dropped if you start your search by pressing the Windows key and start typing.
    • If you use Search to run commands, the “Run as administrator” and “Open file location” options should be visible again for you to select on the side of the search window. In addition, CTRL + Shift + Enter should work again now for commands.
    [File Explorer]

    • Mitigated an issue that could lead to not being able to add network drives as a source in Media Player.
    • Fixed an issue that could lead to seeing an unexpected blank icon after compressing a file, instead of the one corresponding to your default app for handling that file type.
    • Right clicking on a folder and then quickly closing and reopening the File Explorer window should no longer lead to an explorer.exe crash when the “run as a separate process” option is enabled.
    • Removed some unexpected characters in the dialog when moving user account folders to another location.
    • If you right click on files like .htm in File Explorer, the icon next to Microsoft Edge Canary, Beta or Dev should now display correctly (if installed) under Open With, instead of showing a generic icon.
    • Addressed an issue that could lead to icons for app entries (like Windows Terminal) in the context menu going missing / being invisible sometimes.
    • Improved the consistency of the background color of the command bar and menu dropdowns when a contrast mode was enabled.
    • Made some more little improvements to help with File Explorer folder navigation performance.
    [Input]

    • If you’ve pressed WIN + Period and have navigated to the emoji or gifs section with a search term, when you go back to the main page, we will now clear out the search query so you can start fresh.
    • The IME candidate window should now appear more reliably when typing into Search immediately after booting your PC.
    • Fixed an issue where u-mode/v-mode/name-mode wasn’t not showing candidates when typing with the Simplified Chinese IME.
    • Fixed an issue where the Japanese IME was unexpectedly displaying candidates in horizontal mode instead of vertical mode.
    • Fixed an issue where the IME toolbar might randomly show on the lock screen.
    • Addressed an issue where the keyboard focus wouldn’t always be in the right place after pressing WIN + Period, depending on where you’d left focus the last time the window was used.
    • When personalizing your family emoji in the emoji panel, the UI should no longer unexpectedly dismiss when you click the white space.
    • Clicking on your personalized family emoji in the most recently used list in the emoji panel should no longer unexpectedly invoke the customization UI.
    • If you try to start voice typing (WIN + H) without setting focus to a text box first, the popup suggesting you move focus should work again now.
    [Windowing]

    • Fixed issue where snap group thumbnails weren’t updating in real time in Task View after you moved a group window to a different Desktop.
    [Settings]

    • Fixed an issue that was causing Settings to crash when going to open options for added languages for some Insiders.
    • Fixed a few issues on the Text Input page under Personalization, including:
      • The preview image for your current set up should be showing now.
      • Added a few keywords to help search for this page.
      • Improved read out of the page for screen reader users.
    • Searching for the word widgets should return to the corresponding Settings page with that toggle now.
    [Other]

    • Mitigated an issue believed to be causing Insiders with certain devices to be experiencing bug checks with the error SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION in recent flights.
    • Fixed an issue where users updating from Builds 22000.xxx, or earlier, to newer Dev Channel builds using the latest Dev Channel ISO would receive the following warning message: The build you are trying to install is Flight Signed. To continue installing, enable flight signing.
    • Removed some excess padding on the left of the boot logo, which was causing it to look off-center compared to the progress wheel.
    • Addressed an issue where UAC was unexpectedly showing “Unknown program” when trying to elevate certain programs, despite them having proper names.
    • Fixed an issue leading to Narrator unexpectedly saying “No item in view” sometimes when tabbing to win32 text boxes.
    • Fixed a crash that was leading to login issues in OOBE (if you were to reset your PC), and well as issues resetting your PIN from the lock screen in the last 2 flights.
    • Fixed an issue leading to acrylic unexpectedly not working in certain places in the preview flight.
    • Mitigated an issue leading to some people unexpectedly seeing “Something went wrong” when trying to click the “stop recording” button when recording a message in Voice Recorder.
    NOTE: Some fixes noted here in Insider Preview builds from the active development branch may make their way into the servicing updates for the released version of Windows 11 that became generally available on October 5th.

    Known issues
    [General]

    • We’re investigating reports from Insiders that DWM is crashing (causing the screen to flash repeatedly) when trying to use certain apps.
    [Start]

    • In some cases, you might be unable to enter text when using Search from Start or the taskbar. If you experience the issue, press WIN + R on the keyboard to launch the Run dialog box, then close it.
    [Taskbar]

    • The taskbar will sometimes flicker when switching input methods.
    • The network icon sometimes goes missing in the taskbar when it’s supposed to be there. If you encounter this, please try using Task Manager to restart explorer.exe.
    • If you have multiple monitors connected to your PC and right-click on the date and time on the taskbar on your primary monitor, it will crash explorer.exe
    [Search]

    • After clicking the Search icon on the Taskbar, the Search panel may not open. If this occurs, restart the “Windows Explorer” process, and open the search panel again.
    [Settings]

    • When viewing the list of available Wi-Fi networks, the signal strength indicators do not reflect the correct signal strength.
    [Widgets]

    • Changing the taskbar alignment can cause the Widgets button to disappear from taskbar.
    • Widgets board may not have the correct resolution when hovering the entry point on a secondary monitor.
    • The Widgets board may be temporarily blank.
    • Links may not open properly when opening the widgets board using hover.
    • When having multiple monitors, Widgets content on taskbar may get out of sync between monitors.
    [Voice access]

    • Voice access is not yet fully compatible with screen readers like Narrator, and you may experience gaps or unexpected behavior running these together.
    • Some text authoring commands, e.g., “select that” or “delete that”, may not work as expected across Windows applications.
    • You cannot use the command “press Windows L” to lock your PC via voice.
    • Recognition of some punctuation marks and symbols such as @ sign is not accurate.
     
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  2. Alessio1989

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    "beta" is a big word.
     
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    Wouldn't it be Pre-Alpha?

    Beta would start once it gets officially released to the general public..... like how we are currently using Windows 10 forever beta.
     
  4. tsunami231

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    Forever Windows Beta/FWB
    is what windows should be called

    Yjis what logo should look like


    Joke aside I sure win 11 will be fine like 10 when it "works"
     
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  5. WhiskeyOmega

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    Getting real tired of the Video Scheduler error BSODs by Watchdog.sys


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  6. KissSh0t

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    It's almost as if this is not intended for use and is nothing more than a leaked build.

    Microsoft is actually issuing dmca takedown notices on file hosts that are hosting this leaked windows 11 iso, they obviously don't want it out there for people to use.
     
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  7. WhiskeyOmega

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    Yea I regret switching to the "upgrade"
    Should have waited.
     
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    At 44 years old I never get tired laughing at people complaining about how something they installed from some random source of a "leaked" release of software performs terribly.
     
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    What does the UI look like in Windows 11 when you move the taskbar to the side or top?
     
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    like 11 since you cannot move it. but it doesn't require at all4GB RAM and 64GB store driver to run at all. nor a dual core.
     
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    Also remember folks. If you don't have TPM enabled in your bios. No Windows 11 for you..
     
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    Can someone please test if the taskbar can be moved from the bottom? I read that the taskbar is locked to the bottom of the screen. Just why?
     
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    I looked at my Asus P8Z77- v Pro and there no trusted platform anywhere just UEFI/Legacy boot option.
     
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    And we won't care. Illegal installation to a separate rig to punish Picosoft.
     
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    Does your board support tpm? only newer boards have it in firmware i think
     

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    Probably not if there is still two boot options.
     
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    I assume no as there no TPM mentioned.
    There no secure boot options either.
    This is 3xxx Intel process (Ivy-bridge).
    no biggy as there nothing I really like so far.
     
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    Watch microsoft change system requirements when they see they aren't getting as many users as they want on 11.

    xD
     
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    just replace with 10 requirements check dll and it will install and run fine, in before microsoft wil fix this crap.
     
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    you never installed that random leaked iso from an unknown source as your main os did you?
     
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