Microsoft is rolling out a brand new Home windows 11 preview construct within the Canary Channel. Construct 27802 landed with a brand new battery indicator, taskbar enhancements, and varied fixes. Here’s what is new:

What’s new with Construct 27802

Bettering the battery iconography in Home windows 11

Introducing new and improved battery icons in Home windows 11! These icons have been designed to speak the battery standing of your PC with only a fast look. Key adjustments embody coloured icons to point charging states, simplified overlays that don’t block the progress bar, and an choice to activate battery share.

When your battery icon is inexperienced, this exhibits that your PC is charging and in an excellent state. A yellow battery icon will let that your PC utilizing battery in power saving mode – this robotically occurs when your battery is lower than or equal to twenty% to protect energy. When the battery icon is purple, you might have a critically low battery and will plug in your PC as quickly as attainable. You will notice these new battery icons on the taskbar within the system tray, within the fast settings flyout, and in Settings. The brand new battery icons will start exhibiting on the Lock display screen in a future flight.

As at all times, your PC’s battery standing and extra may even be obtainable to you once you hover over the battery icon within the system tray and below Settings > System > Energy & battery the place you can too modify the battery stage share through which power saver mode kicks on to your PC.

Together with the updates to the battery icon, we’re additionally introducing the flexibility to point out your battery share subsequent to the battery icon within the system tray – a extremely requested characteristic by Insiders and clients. To allow this, go to Settings > Energy & battery and toggle on the “Battery Share” setting.

Different adjustments and enhancements embody the next:

[Taskbar & System Tray]

• We’re rolling out the flexibility to share recordsdata straight from the bounce lists on the taskbar, which seems once you right-click on an app with a bounce checklist like Notepad the taskbar.

[Spotlight on the desktop]

• We’re starting to roll out some adjustments to the Desktop Highlight icon interplay mannequin for Home windows Insiders. Now you can shortly and simply uncover extra details about your background picture by merely hovering over or clicking on the “Find out about this image” icon in your desktop.

Fixes

[General]

• We mounted the problem inflicting Insiders to see an error making an attempt to put in Construct 27788 (0x8007000d) together with a failed .NET replace (0x80073712). This difficulty mustn’t happen with Construct 27798.

[File Explorer]

• Fastened a difficulty the place for those who opened a File Explorer window and minimized it, it may not be rendered appropriately once you restore it.

[Taskbar & System Tray]

• Fastened a difficulty when utilizing a number of screens, the place the gap between the date and time and fringe of the display screen wasn’t constant.

[Input]

• Fastened a difficulty the place for those who have been utilizing a non-default mouse coloration (enabled in Settings > Accessibility > Mouse pointer and contact), it might unexpectedly revert again to white once you encountered a UAC dialog.

[Lock Screen]

• Fastened a difficulty which was inflicting the login display screen to crash when clicking the “sign-in choices” hyperlink for some Insiders.

[Administrator Protection]

• Fastened a uncommon difficulty when Administrator Safety was enabled, which might trigger you to see a useful resource loader cache error loading the MUI file on register.
• Eliminated extraneous house between Dynamic Lock and Administrator Safety below Account Safety in Home windows Safety.
• Fastened a difficulty the place Administrator Safety wasn’t exhibiting within the outcomes for those who searched from the taskbar.

[Audio]

• Fastened a difficulty inflicting a small share of Insiders to not be capable to hear audio within the final couple builds resulting from a background audio crash.

[Remote Desktop]

• Fastened a difficulty within the final two Canary Channel builds the place for those who used distant desktop to connect with your PC after which tried to signal into the pc domestically, it could sit at a black display screen.

[Other]

• Fastened an underlying difficulty inflicting some Insiders to see a bugcheck with WIN32K_CRITICAL_FAILURE in latest builds.
• Fastened an underlying difficulty inflicting some Insiders to see a bugcheck with KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE in latest builds.
• Fastened a difficulty the place SFC /scannow is exhibiting errors each time it was run.

And right here is the checklist of recognized bugs:

[General]

• [IMPORTANT NOTE FOR COPILOT+ PCs] In case you are becoming a member of the Canary Channel on a brand new Copilot+ PC from the Dev Channel, Launch Preview Channel or retail, you’ll lose Home windows Hi there pin and biometrics to signal into your PC with error 0xd0000225 and error message “One thing went mistaken, and your PIN isn’t obtainable”. It is best to be capable to re-create your PIN by clicking “Arrange my PIN”.

[Gaming]

• [NEW] Some standard video games like Roblox might trigger a bugcheck (inexperienced display screen) on this construct. We’re engaged on a repair for the following Canary Channel flight. You possibly can pause updates and skip taking this construct till we launch a brand new construct with the repair.

[Printing]

• [NEW] Printing from some apps might trigger a bugcheck (inexperienced display screen).

[Power and Battery]

• [NEW] The colours within the new battery icon aren’t displayed appropriately when you might have your mode in Personalization > Colours set to sure choices with Customized.

[Search]

• [NEW] We’re engaged on the repair for a difficulty inflicting the search window to be clean for some Insiders not too long ago when looking out from the taskbar, resulting from a background crash.

[Hyper-V]

• We’re investigating studies the place Hyper-V, and different options which depend on Hyper-V (comparable to WSL) don’t work correctly.

You’ll find the official announcement publish right here.