Microsoft has launched a brand new Release Preview construct for Windows 11 24H2 Insiders (in case you are on 23H2, you’ll be able to take a look at this construct). The new construct, 26100.2448, underneath KB5046740, fixes Mica, DISM, and extra problems. It additionally brings an enhanced OOBE (the preliminary Windows Setup) and extra. The complete changelog is given underneath:

Gradual rollout

The following options and enhancements is probably not to be had to all customers as a result of they are going to roll out steadily. Text bolded in brackets point out the realm of the exchange being documented.

• [Start menu] New! When you right-click apps that you’ve pinned to the Start menu, bounce lists will seem for apps that experience bounce lists.
• [Taskbar] New! The machine tray presentations a shortened date and time. Also, the notification bell icon may no longer display when you’ve got set the toggle for “Do not disturb” to on. If the bell icon does no longer display, click on the date and time to view your messages within the notification heart. To return to the lengthy type of the date and time, move to Settings > Date and Time. Then flip at the toggle for “Show time and day in the system tray.” To display the bell icon, move to Settings > System > Notifications. Turn at the toggle for “Notifications.” You too can get to those settings the usage of the context menu. Just appropriate click on the machine tray clock or bell icon.
• [Touchscreen] New! This replace provides a brand new phase for touchscreen edge gestures. Go to Settings > Bluetooth & Devices > Touch. There, you’ll be able to make a choice if you need to show off the left or appropriate display edge contact gesture.
• [Task Manager]
  • New! The Disconnect and Logoff dialogs now fortify darkish mode and textual content scaling.
  • New! The Performance phase now presentations the kind for every disk.
• [Input Method Editor (IME)] New! After you put in this replace, the IME toolbar will disguise when apps are in complete display mode. This handiest happens when the IME toolbar is lively, and also you sort Chinese or Japanese characters.
• [File Explorer] New! You can percentage content material to an Android software from the context menu in File Explorer and at the desktop. To use this option, you should set up and configure Phone Link in your PC.
• [IFilters] New! Windows Search runs IFilters in Less Privileged App Containers (LPAC). LPACs are like app packing containers, however they deny extra permissions by way of default. A procedure that runs in an LPAC handiest has get entry to to the assets it wishes. The procedure does no longer have get entry to to delicate machine elements and knowledge. This reduces the prospective injury {that a} compromised procedure could cause.
• [Dynamic Lighting Settings page]
  • New! Its web page will display a placeholder message when there’s no appropriate software hooked up on your pc. Also, the Brightness and Effects controls shall be off.
  • New! This replace provides the Forward, Backward, Outward, and Inward path choices to the Wave impact. The Gradient impact now has the Forward path possibility.
• [Narrator] New! We have added new functionalities to Narrator scan mode. Skip previous hyperlinks (N’) permits you to navigate to the textual content after a hyperlink. This is maximum useful when navigating via lengthy emails, information articles, and wiki pages. Jump to lists (L’) permits you to briefly get entry to a listing on a internet web page or a file. To check out those new options, you wish to have to activate Narrator first (Win key + Ctrl + Enter), then flip scan mode ON by way of urgent Caps Lock + Spacebar and in the end use the brand new shortcuts – ‘N’ and ‘L’. Please observe that scan mode is ‘ON’ by way of default on maximum internet pages (like information articles, wiki web page, and so on.).
• [Speech in Windows] New! We have stepped forward our speech-to-text and text-to-speech revel in on Windows. Users of Narrator, voice get entry to, are living captions, are living translations, and voice typing may see a message asking them to replace their language recordsdata manually. The language recordsdata shall be launched one by one via Microsoft Store.
• [Settings] New! Tailored Experiences is now Personalized provides within the out of field revel in (OOBE). You can in finding it at the Recommendations and gives web page. Go to Settings > Privacy & safety. Here, you’ll be able to flip off the environment that sends information about your software to beef up Windows.
• [Jump lists] New! If you cling Shift and CTRL and click on a bounce record merchandise, this opens the object as an admin.
• [DISM] Fixed: The StartComponentCleanup job does no longer paintings correctly. It stops at 71% and presentations error 6842.
• [PowerShell] Fixed: The Get-WindowsCapacity command from time to time fails. Then it’s a must to restart your PC.
• [Windows Update] Fixed: When you put in an replace, you may get error 0x800f0905.
• [JPG files] Fixed: You can’t use an API to seek out rotation knowledge.
• [Display]
  • Fixed: App home windows may acquire within the nook of a observe after your software is going to sleep. This happens whilst you use a couple of displays.
  • Fixed: Mica subject matter may no longer show appropriately. This happens whilst you use a slideshow background.
• [Mouse] Fixed: When you utilize the “Show location of pointer when I press the CTRL key,” the circles may well be tiny on some presentations.
• [Clipboard] Fixed: Clipboard historical past (Windows brand key plus signal (+) V) may display no content material. This factor happens although it’s on, and you have got copied textual content and pictures.
• [Taskbar] Fixed: When you select “Automatically hide the taskbar,” the quest field presentations as an icon, no longer as a seek field.
• [File Explorer]
  • Fixed: There may well be more room than you are expecting between the pieces indexed within the left pane.
  • Fixed: The seek field is bring to a halt when the File Explorer window is small.

Normal rollout

This replace comprises the next options and enhancements which can be rolling out as a part of this replace. Text bolded in brackets signifies the realm of the exchange being documented.

• [File Explorer] Fixed: When you choose the See extra button, the menu expands upward as a substitute of losing down. Because of this, the menu may move off the display, relying at the place of File Explorer.

• [HTML Applications (HTA)] Fixed: HTA non-compulsory elements (OC) are actually in ARM64 Windows PE.

• [Task Manager] Fixed: The Users web page may reason Task Manager to forestall responding whilst you use the keyboard.

• [Graphics Device Interface Plus (GDI+)]

• Fixed: You can’t get the houses of symbol recordsdata the usage of GDI+).
• Fixed: Scaling is incorrect whilst you re-encode photographs in GDI+.

• [RAW format images] Fixed: They display within the incorrect orientation.

• [Exporting chart objects] Fixed: An app stops responding when it exports chart items in PDF and XLSX codecs.

• [Mouse and Xbox game bar] Fixed: Your mouse may release from the sport window. This happens when you’ve got a couple of displays and open and shut the Xbox sport bar.

You can in finding the legit weblog publish right here on Microsoft’s website online.