Windows 11 Insider Preview: Build 22494 wird über den Dev Channel ausgerollt

Microsoft hat die Windows 11 Insider Preview mit dem Build 22494.1000 für den Rollout im Dev Channel des Insider Programms für Windows 11 freigegeben. Neben den obligatorischen Fehlerkorrekturen und Optimierungen gibt es Neuerungen für das Mikrofon.

Microsoft Teams lässt sich über die Taskleiste muten

Das neue 10.0.22494.1000 rs_prerelease, so die vollständige Bezeichnung der aktualisierten Insider Preview, erlaubt erstmals das Stummschalten und Aktivieren eines Headsets oder Mikrofons unmittelbar über den Infobereich der Taskleiste. Die erste Anwendung, die auf das Feature zurückgreifen kann, ist Microsofts eigene Kollaborationssoftware Microsoft Teams. Der aus der hauseigenen Groupware abgeleiteten Build-in-App „Chat“ und „Microsoft Teams for Home“ ist diese Funktionserweiterung aber erst einmal noch vorenthalten geblieben.

Aktuell wird das Feature ausschließlich für ein „kleine Gruppe von Insidern“ ausgerollt, die Microsoft Teams im beruflichen oder schulischen Alltag einsetzen, so Microsoft im Rahmen eines Beitrages auf dem Windows Insider Blog.

Microsoft räumt auf für Windows 11 22H2

Die offiziellen Release Notes listen diesmal besonders viele Fehlerkorrekturen und Optimierungen auf, die darauf schließen lassen, dass das Herbst 2022 Update, das als Windows 11 22H2 an den Start gehen und Drag & Drop in die Taskleiste zurückbringen wird, zu dem werden könnte, was Windows 11 21H2 zum Release hätte sein sollen.

Die diversen Verbesserungen des Builds 22494 finden sich unter anderem in den Bereichen Taskleiste, Windows-Explorer, Suche, Fenstermanagement, Eingabegeräte und Einstellungen wieder.

• We are trying out showing snap groups in ALT + TAB and Task View with some Windows Insiders just like when you hover open apps on the taskbar, and you see them there. This 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.
• If you’re searching for file type or link types under Settings > Apps > Default apps, we’ll now show a dropdown of options containing your current query without having to first press enter.
• If needed, you can now launch the installed apps settings page under Settings > Apps > Installed apps directly via this URI: ms-settings:installed-apps.
• Adjusted the names of the sort by options under Settings > Apps > Installed apps to help make them clearer and added a new option to sort from smallest to largest size.

• Taskbar
  • Tooltips should no longer appear in random places on the Taskbar after sliding your mouse over volume, battery, network, or other icons in the Taskbar corner.
  • Addressed an underlying issue that was leading to come unexpected duplication of certain icons in the Taskbar corner.
• File Explorer
  • Addressed an issue that was causing the context menu to crash for some people if you tried to scroll it.
  • Did some work to help address an issue where in certain areas of the screen the context menu submenus would draw on top of the context menu instead of beside it (for example, if you hovered over New).
  • The context menu icons should be less blurry on systems with multiple monitors with mixed DPI now.
  • Addressed an issue that could cause selecting Open With in the context menu to unexpectedly just open the file in certain cases rather than actually opening the Open With dialog.
  • Renaming files on the desktop is back up and running in this flight.
  • Made another adjustment to the command bar underlying logic to help improve performance of command actions in File Explorer.
• Search
  • Fixed a recent issue that was causing the indexer database to become too fragmented, leading to the indexer unexpectedly consuming a large amount of memory and CPU for a prolonged period of time. This was particularly noticeable for people that have large Outlook mailboxes.
• Input
  • Mitigated an issue that was causing certain apps to hang when trying to drag something with the Shift or Ctrl key held down.
  • Fixed an issue that was causing the touch keyboard to not appear on tablets when tapping the text field if you were to try to reset your PIN from the login screen.
  • Improved reliability of the Pen menu.
• Windowing
  • Fixed a few explorer.exe crashes related to using windowing features (snap, ALT + Tab, and Desktops).
  • If you open Task View on a system with multiple monitors, the background should now be acrylic on both monitors.
  • Addressed a couple UI issues with the window thumbnails in Task View and ALT + Tab, notably that the close button might get cut off if the app window was too thin.
• Settings
  • Addressed an issue where Facial Recognition (Windows Hello) might be unexpectedly greyed out in Sign-in Settings in certain cases until closing and opening Settings.
  • Fixed an issue where Storage Sense wasn’t cleaning up C:\Windows\SystemTemp.
  • Standard users (aka non-admins) should now be able to change the time zone in Settings if Location access is not granted, rather than the dropdown going blank.
• Other
  • Fixed an issue causing links to Windows Update, Recovery and For developers to show under the main Windows Update Settings page.
  • Fixed a bug where images had a yellow tonality in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Lightroom Classic when in HDR mode.
  • Mitigated an issue related to DHCP that was causing unexpected power usage while the screen was off in recent builds for some Insiders.
  • Did some work to help address an issue where Service Host: WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service would unexpectedly utilize a lot of CPU.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause some devices to have a black screen when coming out of sleep (where the lock screen wouldn’t display).
  • Addressed an underlying issue that was causing some users with ARM64 PCs to experience an increase in Microsoft Teams crashes in the last few Dev Channel builds.
  • We have increased the padding for selected items as seen by clicking Show More Options in the File Explorer context menu, or the menu options in Task Manager.
  • WSL: Fixed error 0x8007010b when accessing Linux distributions via `\\wsl.localhost` or `\\wsl$` (Issue #6995).

Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23494 – Release Notes

Neben der Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22494 hat Microsoft auch das dazu passende Entwicklerwerkzeug Windows Insider Preview SDK 22494 zum Download freigegeben.

Auch die neue Microsoft Defender Preview soll zeitnah über den Dev Channel an Windows 11 Insider verteilt werden und anschließend seinen Weg in den Beta Channel finden.

Windows 11 zum Download auf ComputerBase

Wie die Übersicht aller Vorschauversionen über den Microsoft Flight Hub verrät, nimmt die Insider Preview Build 22494 den Platz der Insider Preview Build 22489 im Dev Channel ein, während Consumer im Beta Channel seit dem 15. Oktober das neue Build 22000.282 als offizielle Beta erhalten. Als Systemabbild (ISO) hat Microsoft das Build 22000.194 freigegeben, das unter dieser Meldung als Download verlinkt ist.

Mit Hilfe des ebenfalls verlinkten kumulativen Updates KB5006674, welches zudem das aktuelle Servicing Stack Update (SSU) enthält, lässt sich die das Betriebssystem nach einer Neuinstallation direkt auf Build 22000.258 anheben. Mit dem optionalen Update KB5006746 wird der aktuelle Stand aus dem Beta Channel erreicht.