Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22509 Releases

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Previously, Microsoft suspended the release of the Windows 11 development version due to the Western Thanksgiving holiday, and now the holiday is over, the new development version has restarted to build and push. Recently, Microsoft releases Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22509.

The key content of the new version launched this time is the improvement of the start menu. The Windows 11 start menu is divided into fixed application icons and recommended items below.

Microsoft has improved the start menu, and now the start menu can accommodate more application icons to reduce the recommended modules.

You can now configure Start to show more pins or more recommendations based on your preference.

The new version of the start menu now has three styles. The first is the system default style, which is the 6 x 3 style we mentioned above. 18 icons can be placed at the start.

Secondly, there are more icon styles. If you select this style, you can fix 6 x 4 application icons in the start menu, and the recommended modules will be compressed into one line.

Finally, there are more recommended styles. If you select this style, you can fix 6 x 2 application icons in the start menu, and the recommended module can provide 4 lines of content.

Specific user needs can go to the personalization and start of the Settings application, where users can adjust the start menu style at any time to facilitate their daily use.

In this version, Microsoft has made various optimizations to the Narrator application, mainly to enable such auxiliary functions to better integrate with the Microsoft Edge browser.

The improved Narrator app will be more convenient to operate in the browser. At the same time, Microsoft has also launched a new Narrator app homepage to provide users with a consistent experience.

Users who are interested in detailed improvements to the new version of the Narrator application homepage and other auxiliary functions, please click here to go to the official Microsoft blog to view Microsoft’s instructions.

Changelog

Fixes

[Taskbar]

  • The Start, Search, Task View, Widgets, and Chat icons in the Taskbar should no longer be unexpectedly large when the system scaling is set to 125%.
  • Pressing the Windows key plus (the number corresponding to an app icon’s position in the Taskbar) should cycle now through the app’s windows if you repeatedly press the number instead of stopping at the last window.
  • When Narrator focus is set to the Task View button and the Desktops flyout appears, Narrator will now let you know information about the Desktops.
  • Fixed an explorer.exe crash some Insiders were experiencing in recent flights related to updating badges in the Taskbar.

[Input]

  • Handwriting should be working again now when the language is set to Chinese.
  • Mitigated an issue related to the mouse that was causing some Insiders to experience a bugcheck during hibernation sometimes in recent flights (making it appear as if the computer had rebooted).
  • Updated the Chinese Simplified IME candidates to be center aligned with the candidate window height has been customized.
  • Fixed touch keyboard invocation in PowerShell so it should work now.

[Windowing]

  • Hovering your mouse back and forth between different desktops in Task View will no longer result in the displayed thumbnails and content area unexpectedly shrinking.
  • CompactOverlay should be working again in this build (aka the option that some apps use to create a small always on top window).
  • Fixed a race condition that was causing explorer.exe to crash sometimes when closing a snap group of 3 or more windows in Task View.
  • Removed the unexpected tilt animation when clicking down on a corner of the New Desktop button.
  • Made a tweak to address an underlying issue that was causing the context menu to animation down to the mouse instead of away from the mouse when right clicking a Desktop in Task View.
  • Fixed a high hitting DWM crash in recent flights.

[Settings]

  • Fixed some overlapping text for certain languages on the Installed Apps page in Settings.
  • Clicking the Uninstall button when using the Installed Apps page in grid view will now show a confirmation dialog.
  • Changed the new ms-settings:installed-apps URI to now be ms-settings:appsfeatures, to address scenarios where existing links expect the latter to lead to the list of installed apps, for example, when selecting the App Settings option after right clicking a UWP app in Start.

[Other]

  • Fixed an issue that was causing some Insiders to see error 0x8007001f when trying to upgrade to recent Dev Channel builds.
  • Fixed an issue where some PCs are unable to install new builds, or other updates with an error code 0x80070002.
  • Fixed an issue causing some devices to roll back with error code 0xc1900101-0x4001c when installing new builds.
  • Did some work to help address an issue leading to the Wi-Fi connection getting lost after resuming from sleep.

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