Releasing Windows 11 Build 26100.5061 to the Release Preview Channel

Hello Windows Insiders, right this moment we’re releasing Windows 11 Build 26100.5061 (KB5064081) to Insiders within the Release Preview Channel on Windows 11, model 24H2 (Build 26100).

Below is a abstract of the brand new options and enhancements included as a part of this replace separated into two sections: gradual rollout and regular rollout. The daring textual content throughout the brackets signifies the merchandise or space of the change we’re documenting.

Gradual rollout

The following options and enhancements may not be out there to all customers as a result of they may roll out steadily. Text bolded in brackets point out the realm of the change being documented. Please word that options and enhancements that steadily roll out could not start rolling out immediately nor will they instantly present up immediately.

• [Recall] New! Recall opens to a customized homepage that places your current exercise and top-used apps and web sites entrance and heart, making it simple to select up the place you left off. After turning on snapshot assortment, the homepage highlights key productiveness options like Recent Snapshots, which present the most recent snapshots that can assist you shortly resume duties, and Top Apps and Websites, which show the three apps and web sites you’ve used most up to now 24 hours. You can set filters in Settings to control which apps and websites are saved in snapshots. A brand new navigation bar on the leftmost aspect of the display offers fast entry to Home, Timeline, Feedback, and Settings.
• [Click to Do] New! When you launch Click to Do for the primary time, you’ll see a fast interactive tutorial. It exhibits tips on how to full duties quicker by demonstrating actions on each textual content and pictures—similar to summarizing giant blocks of textual content or eradicating picture backgrounds. To revisit the tutorial later, choose More choices … > Start tutorial.
• [General] New! When an app requests entry to location, digicam, microphone, or different gadget capabilities, Windows exhibits a redesigned system dialog field. The display dims barely, and the privateness immediate seems centered on the display.

• [Taskbar]
  • New! The bigger clock with seconds is now again within the notification heart, displayed above the date and calendar. To flip this feature on, go to Settings > Time & language > Date & time, and activate Show time within the Notification Center.
  • Fixed: If you unintentionally click on down and slide your mouse on the taskbar preview thumbnail, clicking it could cease working.
  • Fixed: File Explorer preview home windows could seem when hovering over unrelated app icons within the taskbar.

• [Search on the Taskbar]
  • New! When you utilize Search from the Windows taskbar, a brand new grid view will assist you to extra shortly and precisely determine the specified picture inside your search.
  • New! Search on the taskbar now offers clearer standing data. If your search outcomes are incomplete whereas your PC is organizing recordsdata within the background, Windows exhibits a discover with a hyperlink to verify progress. You can dismiss the discover while you’re performed. There can also be a standing for recordsdata and folders, so you may simply inform whether or not they’re out there on-line (cloud) or saved in your gadget.
• [Lock screen] New! After rolling this expertise out to Windows Insiders within the EEA, we at the moment are starting to roll out extra widget choices on the lock display in addition to assist for lock display widget personalization (previously referred to as “Weather and more”) with Insiders in all areas. You can add, take away, and rearrange lock display widgets similar to Weather, Watchlist, Sports, Traffic, and extra. Any widget that helps the small sizing possibility might be added right here. To customise your lock display widgets, navigate to Settings > Personalization > Lock display.
• [File Explorer]
  • New! Use AI actions in File Explorer to edit pictures or summarize paperwork. Just proper click on (or Press Shift+F10) on a file and choose AI Actions.
    • Image actions: You can now use 4 AI-powered picture actions with .jpg, .jpeg, and .png recordsdata. Visual Search searches the online utilizing a picture as an alternative of textual content. Blur Background opens the Photos app to spotlight the topic and blur the background. Erase Objects removes undesirable components out of your photograph. Remove Background makes use of Paint to vary any picture leaving a clean minimize out of the topic.
    • AI actions for Microsoft 365 makes it simpler to work together with your paperwork. With the Summarize motion in Copilot, you may shortly generate summaries of recordsdata saved in OneDrive and SharePoint—no must open each. This AI motion requires an lively Microsoft 365 subscription and a Copilot license (Microsoft account and Microsoft Entra ID supported).New! Dividers now seem between top-level icons within the File Explorer context menu.
  • New! When you’re signed in with a piece or college account (Entra ID), File Explorer will show folks icons within the Activity column and the Recommended part on the high of File Explorer Home. Hover over or choose an individual’s icon to open their Microsoft 365 Live Persona Card, which exhibits who they’re and the way they’re linked to the file.
  • Fixed: If you attempt to use the unblock open in Properties for a file, it nonetheless exhibits as blocked while you open Properties the following time.
• Windows Hello]
  • New! As a part of the enhanced passkey features released in September 2023, you’ll see a redesigned Windows Hello interface. These modernized visible updates assist quick, clear communication that seem throughout a number of authentication flows, together with the Windows sign-in display, passkey, Recall, the Microsoft Store, and extra. The Windows  safety credential expertise for passkey affords a cleaner, extra intuitive interface designed to assist quick, safe sign-in. You can now simply swap between authentication choices similar to passkeys or linked units.
  • Fixed: Windows Hello could acknowledge your face on the login display, nevertheless it might nonetheless fail after which immediate you to enter your pin. If you proceed experiencing points, it’s possible you’ll must go to the Facial Recognition part underneath Settings > Accounts > Sign-in choices, and choose Improve recognition.
  • Improved: Fingerprint login after standby is now extra strong.

• [Advanced Settings] New! The redesigned Advanced settings web page underneath Settings > System > Advanced is an replace of the For Developers web page and makes it simpler to search out key choices. New settings embody Enable lengthy paths, which removes MAX_PATH limitations; Virtual workspaces, which allow you to flip environments like Hyper-V and Windows Sandbox on or off; and File Explorer + model management, which exhibits Git particulars similar to department, diff depend, and final commit message immediately in File Explorer when you choose a repository folder.
• [Settings]
  • New! Windows activation and expiration prompts match the Windows 11 design and seem as system notifications when motion is required. There even have been enhancements to messaging underneath Settings > System > Activation.
  • New! You can go to Settings > Privacy & safety > Text and Image Generation to see which third-party apps have not too long ago used generative AI fashions offered by Windows. You can even select which apps are permitted to make use of them—placing you answerable for your gadget’s AI expertise.
  • New! You can view the Device Card on the Settings residence web page. It exhibits key specs and utilization particulars of your PC. From the cardboard, go on to Settings > About web page for extra detailed details about your PC. This card will present when signed in together with your Microsoft account and within the U.S. solely.
  • New! More time, language, and keyboard settings have moved from Control Panel to Settings. You can now add extra clocks, change your time server, and customise date and time formatting—together with AM/PM symbols—immediately from Settings > Time & language > Date & time. Number and forex codecs, Unicode UTF-8 assist, and choices to repeat language and area settings to different accounts at the moment are underneath Settings > Time & language > Language & area. Keyboard character repeat and cursor blink fee settings at the moment are simpler to search out underneath Settings > Accessibility.
  • New! As a part of the Copilot+ PC expertise, the agent in Settings helps you shortly discover and alter settings. Initially out there on Snapdragon®-powered Copilot+ PCs, agent in Settings now helps AMD- and Intel™-powered Copilot+ PCs. It at the moment works solely when your main show language is about to English.
  • Fixed: Settings could crash if you happen to try so as to add a safety key underneath Settings > Account > Sign-in choices.
• [Task Manager] New! Task Manager now makes use of commonplace metrics to indicate CPU workload persistently throughout all pages, aligning with trade requirements and third-party instruments. If you like the earlier view, you may allow a brand new optionally available column known as CPU Utility within the Details tab to show the sooner CPU utilization worth proven on the Processes web page.

• [Windows Backup for Organizations] New! Windows Backup for Organizations is now typically out there! Experience seamless gadget transitions with enterprise-grade backup and restore. Whether you’re refreshing your group’s units, upgrading to Windows 11, or deploying AI-powered PCs, this answer helps maintain productiveness with minimal disruption, guaranteeing enterprise continuity and organizational resilience.
• [PowerShell 2.0] Starting in August 2025, Windows 11, model 24H2, will now not embody Windows PowerShell 2.0.This  legacy part was  launched in Windows 7 and formally deprecated in 2017. Most customers received’t be affected, as newer variations similar to PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell 7.x stay out there and supported. If you utilize older scripts or instruments that depend upon PowerShell 2.0, replace them to keep away from compatibility points.
• [Live captions] Fixed: Changing the opacity of dwell captions in Settings > Accessibility > Captions > Caption Style, has no impact.
• [Input]
  • Fixed: Attempting to kind Chinese with an IME after copying one thing with CTRL + C can lead to the primary character not displaying.
  • Fixed: An underlying challenge associated to textinputframework.dll may lead to sure apps like Sticky Notes and Notepad crashing.
• [Kerberos] Fixed: There could also be an underlying crash in Kerberos when trying to entry a cloud file share.
• [Login] Improved: Addressed some underlying circumstances which may result in you seeing a clean white display, or a display saying, “just a moment”, for a couple of minutes when logging in to your PC.
• [dbgcore.dll] Fixed: An underlying challenge with dbgcore.dll may lead to sure apps, together with explorer.exe, crashing.
• [Audio] Improved: Addressed an underlying audio service dangle which may impression the power to play audio in sure circumstances.

Normal rollout

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

• [Device management] Fixed: This replace addresses a problem that prevented some system restoration options from working correctly because of a brief file sharing battle. This affected sure gadget administration instruments and disrupted key features on some units.
• [File system] Fixed: An challenge in Resilient File System (ReFS) the place utilizing backup apps with giant recordsdata may generally exhaust system reminiscence.
• [Input]
  • Fixed: This replace addresses a problem with the Chinese (Simplified) Input Method Editor (IME) the place some prolonged characters seem as empty bins.
  • Fixed: This replace addresses a problem that forestalls typing on the contact keyboard when utilizing the Microsoft Changjie, Microsoft Bopomofo, or Microsoft Japanese Input Method Editors (IMEs). The challenge happens after switching to a earlier model of the IME.
• [Performance] Fixed: This replace addresses a problem that slows software set up on ARM64 units. Some installers may take longer to finish.

Thanks,
Windows Insider Program Team