Windows Insider Preview polishes the look
Microsoft has released a new Windows 11 Insider Preview. It visually modernizes some dialogs, among other things.
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Microsoft has released a new preview for Windows 11 for participants in the Insider Beta channels. The new build primarily features visual polish.
In the release announcement, Microsoft's developers are placing a strong focus on new dialogs for account settings in Windows. In “Settings” under “Accounts” – “Other users” (where the path will then be displayed as “Accounts > Other users”), they have adapted the design of the dialogs to the modern “WinUI” framework. They now also support Dark Mode. The dialogs for “Add account” and “Change account type” are affected.
Users can now set the desktop background not only as a JPEG file, for example, but also in the more modern and more highly compressing .webp image format. They can access this option via the path “Settings” – “Personalization” – “Background”.
Insider Preview with minor bug fixes
The programmers have also incorporated fixes for minor glitches. For instance, the taskbar should no longer pop up prematurely when set to “auto-hide,” thus no longer interfering with app usage in that area. Additionally, with this version, they are testing a fix for the Start menu, notification center, and quick settings sometimes not responding to clicks and not opening, even though the keyboard shortcuts for them still work.
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The display of the battery level for Bluetooth devices should now work as expected again. The login screen receives a cosmetic fix, where the password icon occasionally did not appear. Audio settings in the last two Insider versions could crash, which no longer happens.
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Furthermore, the developers are still investigating some issues. Some apps are not appearing in the system tray for Insiders, even though they should. Additionally, some Insiders have reported problems with secondary screens displaying only a black image.
In last week's Insider Preview, Microsoft tested the uninstallation of the AI tool Copilot App.
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