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Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20241. What’s new in Build 20241 Introducing theme-aware splash screens for apps Building on theme-aware tiles in Start, we’re introducing theme-aware splash screens for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps. Now, when an eligible UWP app is launched, the splash screen color will match your default app mode. For example, if you have light theme turned on, you’ll see a light theme splash screen, and if you have dark theme turned on (for the “default app mode”) then you’ll see a dark theme splash screen. The following apps support theme-aware splash screens today: SettingsStoreWindows SecurityAlarms & ClockCalculatorMapsVoice RecorderGrooveMovies & TVSnip & SketchMicrosoft ToDoOfficeFeedback HubMicrosoft Solitaire Collection Over time, more apps will be updated via the Store to support having a theme-aware splash screen. NOTE: Some apps like Store and Feedback Hub may show an extended splash screen in your accent color instead of the theme-aware light or dark theme.  This feature is rolling out to a subset of Insiders in the Dev Channel at first to help us quickly identify issues that may impact performance and reliability. Rest assured they will be gradually rolling out to everyone in the Dev Channel.  Enhancing your defrag experience We’re making a few changes to the Optimize Drives page (Settings > System > Storage > Optimize Drives), including: Adding a new “Advanced View” checkbox to list all volumes including hidden volumes. Read the full article

Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20231. What’s new in Build 20231 Improving relevancy of initial device setup Based on feedback, we’re exploring adding a page to Windows setup (OOBE) to help better understand how you plan to use your device and aid in customizing your device given your intended usage. This is the initial wave of work for this feature, and Insiders may notice different options presented in OOBE depending on what they select, however at this time Insiders will not notice any other configuration differences after exiting OOBE. We look forward to sharing future improvements in this space. This feature is rolling out to a subset of Insiders in the Dev Channel at first, to help us quickly identify issues that may impact performance and reliability. Rest assured they will be gradually rolled out to everyone in the Dev Channel. NOTE: You will see this feature if you choose to reset your PC and when you do a clean install of Windows. You can find the ISO for Build 20231 here on our download page later today. Better Management Options for App Default File Associations Enterprise customers can now modify file associations on a per-user or per-device basis. This change will apply to existing users as well as users with new deployments. This means that IT admins can set which apps will automatically open various file types or links. Read the full article

Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20226. What’s new in Build 20226 Storage health monitoring to protect user data Attempting to recover data after drive failure is both frustrating and expensive. This feature is designed to detect hardware abnormalities for NVMe SSDs and notify users with enough time to act. It is strongly recommended that users immediately back up their data after receiving a notification. Clicking on the notification or navigating to the drive properties page in Storage Settings (Settings -> System -> Storage -> Manage disks and volumes -> Properties) will provide additional details. Other updates for Insiders New Your Phone settings experience for seamless device management within the app The Your Phone team is excited to rollout a new user experience for managing your linked devices with the app.  We are happy to announce with this new settings page, you can now link a new device, remove an old device, and switch between active devices all easily within the app. We’ve also made visual improvements to displaying your device list.  Now each device is identifiable on its own device card with your personally sync’d wallpaper. This new user experience will be gradually rolling out to Insiders, so it may take some time to show up in the Your Phone app.  Give this feature a try and continue to provide feedback within the Your Phone app under Settings > Help & Feedback > Send Feedback. Read the full article

Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20206. What’s new in Build 20206 Evolving the Emoji Picker Over the last 3 years, we have been adding ways to express yourself when typing in Windows. In addition to adding an emoji picker and support for more emoji, we have also added support for many more languages, kaomoji, and symbols. We have also added ways to manage your clipboard history. We are evolving the emoji picker in Windows to bring many of these separate experiences together as well as introduce some new capabilities such as easy access to animated GIFs. We know that you need more than just emojis to properly convey your message when communicating using text. To that end, we’ve revamped the emoji picker to be a one-stop for expressing yourself while you type on your device!  This new experience offers: An updated design: We are making the experience more aligned with our Fluent Design principles, including a new acrylic background.Emoji search: We are improving discoverability of emoji search in supported languages by having an inline search box.Animated GIF support, including search: Going forward, WIN + and WIN + will now enable you to quickly input animated GIFs. The selection of animated gifs will be continuously updated based on current trends and #hashtags. Search is also available for those times where you need to find the perfect reaction gif to succinctly communicate your message.Converging Read the full article

Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19042.487. This non-security update includes quality improvements. Key changes include: We fixed an issue with pinned Add-ins that cause Microsoft Outlook to become unresponsive.We now provide the ability to sync the Microsoft Edge IE Mode unidirectional session cookie when an administrator configures the session cookie.We fixed an issue with rendering PeerDist-encoded content in Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge.We fixed an issue that might prevent ActiveX content from loading.We fixed an issue that displays a black screen to Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) users when they attempt to sign in.We fixed an issue that might cause apps that use the custom text wrapping function to stop working in certain scenarios.We fixed an issue with Start menu apps and tiles in virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments. The issue occurs after you sign in to the VDI environment a second time and use a Remote Desktop User Profile Disk in a non-persistent virtual desktop pool.We fixed an issue that generates an error when printing to a document repository.We fixed an issue that prevents Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6) applications from using ListView in MSCOMCTL.OCXafter upgrading to Windows 10, version 1903 and later.We fixed a runtime error that causes VB6 to stop working when duplicate windows messages are sent to WindowProc().We fixed an issue that causes a stop error when the initialization of the graphics adapter fails.We Read the full article

Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20197. What’s new in Build 20197 Bringing Disk Management into Settings We mentioned we had more Settings work on the way, and here’s the next one – as of today’s build you’ll now be able to manage your disks and volumes from within the Settings app. This includes tasks such as viewing disk information, creating and formatting volumes, and assigning drive letters. Unlike the existing Disk Management MMC snap-in, this modern experience was built from the ground up to with accessibility in mind. It also features better integration with features such as Storage Spaces and the Storage breakdown page. Go to Settings > System > Storage and click Manage Disks and Volumes to get started. We’d love to hear your feedback once you try it out. The existing Disk Management MMC snap-in is still available for those that need it. Note about the new post-update experience The new post update experience with the Tips app mentioned with Build 20190 was a trial run for this experience to get feedback and gauge interest and specific only to Build 20190. You will not see this experience on newer builds. Insiders may see other experiences like this one on newer builds coming soon. Other updates for Insiders Your Phone Apps experience is now gradually rolling out to General Public We are excited to announce that the Your Phone apps feature which was highlighted during Aug 5th Samsung Unpacked event is now gradually rolling out to General Public. Read the full article

Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20190. What’s new in Build 20190 New post-update experience We know that it doesn’t always feel clear what changed with a major update, or even how you can learn about and try out new features and improvements. This means that updates can feel time consuming without real benefit to you, and we want to change that. We’re introducing a new first run experience via the Tips app that highlights the most exciting changes on your PC after a major Windows 10 feature update is installed. After installing this build, Insiders will see the Tips app is launched highlight some of the most recent new features from the latest Insider Preview builds in the Dev Channel. To see this experience on your device, make sure the “Show me the Windows welcome experience” checkbox in Settings > System > Notifications & actions is checked. This experience will show up for Windows Insiders in EN locales such as US, UK, AU, IN, and CA. Improved Graphics Settings experience While this isn’t a new feature all together, we have made significant changes based on customer feedback that will benefit our customers’ Graphics Settings experience. We have made the following improvements: We’ve updated the Graphics Settings to allow users to specify a default high performance GPU.We’ve updated the Graphics Settings to allow users to pick a specific GPU on a per application basis. Read the full article

Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20180. What’s new in Build 20180 We are turning on much of the new features mentioned on July 1st in Build 20161 including theme-aware tiles on Start. The new pinned sites capability mentioned with last week’s flight of Build 20175 is still only available to a subset of Insiders. Updates for developers The Windows SDK is now flighting continuously with the Dev Channel. Whenever a new OS build is flighted to the Dev Channel, the corresponding SDK will also be flighted. You can always install the latest Insider SDK from aka.ms/InsiderSDK. SDK flights will be archived in Flight Hub along with OS flights. Changes and Improvements Based on feedback, we’re changing the tablet posture logic for 2-in-1 devices to now only apply when using a single screen.Based on feedback we’re updating the new folder icon in the Start menu’s All app’s list to be a little smaller so it better aligns with the size of the other icons.We’ve updated the search box in the Default Apps settings pages to improve performance. Fixes We fixed an issue in the last flight where Magnifier wasn’t following the curser in the previous build when the zoom was higher than 100%.We fixed an issue where Task Manager wasn’t showing the Publisher name for UWP apps.We fixed an issue when using the Pinyin IME where tapping “/” on the keyboard wouldn’t produce the right character when using full width mode.We Read the full article