The first big update for Microsoft’s new operating system, now set to be called the Windows 11 2022 Update, is due for release shortly. Microsoft is still hard at work developing new features and fixing problems for future updates.
Last week’s Windows 11 build for Insiders on the Dev Channel wasn’t particularly existing, with the focus on fixing problems, but Build 25188, released today, do introduce some more notable changes.
This flight comes with updated touch keyboard settings that replaces the “Show the touch keyboard when there’s no keyboard attached” checkbox under Settings > Time & language > Typing > Touch keyboard.
This will offer you a choice of three control options:
- Never suppresses the touch keyboard even when no hardware keyboard is attached.
- When no keyboard attached will show the touch keyboard only when the device is used as a tablet without the hardware keyboard.
- Always will show the touch keyboard even when the hardware keyboard is attached.
Elsewhere, Windows Terminal is now the default terminal in Windows 11. As Microsoft explains:
This means, all command line applications will open in Windows Terminal automatically (Command Prompt and PowerShell, for example). The setting for this change can be found via Settings > Privacy & security > For developers. Please note that Windows Terminal version 1.15 or greater is required for this feature.
Other changes and improvements in this build include:
[Settings]
- Updated the Wi-Fi and VPN properties pages in Settings to now include a link to advanced properties for that network.
Fixes
[Taskbar]
- Fixed an issue related to the taskbar overflow which was impacting explorer.exe reliability.
[Start]
- Fixed an issue that was causing Start’s recommended to only show one column instead of two.
- Made a fix for Narrator mistakenly reading out the search box in Start twice.
- Fixed an issue where the access keys (underlined letters) in WIN + X had duplicate definitions when an update was pending reboot.
[File Explorer]
- Fixed an issue causing a small percentage of Insiders to experience repeated explorer.exe crashes after attempting to access certain folders on their systems in the last couple Dev Channel builds.
- Fixed a recent issue where if File Explorer was open when you switched between light and dark mode, you could end up with some unreadable text / UI showing the wrong color.
- Fixed an issue that was causing explorer.exe to crash when opening folders with certain images.
- The up arrow should no longer be misaligned in File Explorer.
- Fixed an issue which could lead to not being able to unpin Desktop, Pictures, or Documents folders from Quick access.
- Fixed an underlying explorer.exe crash which could happen when File Explorer launch was aborted, for example if you were attempting to access a network share from the Run dialog, were prompted for credentials, and then clicked cancel instead of entering them.
- If the tab title is too long to display completely in the available space, hovering your mouse over it will now show a tooltip with the full name.
- Fixed an issue which could lead to explorer……..
Source: https://betanews.com/2022/08/24/windows-11-build-25188/