Asserting Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27928 (Canary Channel)

Hello Windows Insiders, at present we’re releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27928 to the Canary Channel.

Changes and Improvements

[Genera]

• The up to date battery iconography we started rolling out within the Canary Channel with Build 27802 is disabled on this construct. This is simply momentary, and we’ll re-enable this in a future Canary Channel flight.

[Settings]

We’re transferring extra time and language settings from Control Panel to Settings:

• You can now add extra clocks from Settings > Time & language > Date & time underneath the collapsed part which might be expanded for “Show time and date in the system tray”. For these unfamiliar with the function, these extra clocks show in Notification Center, in addition to the tooltip when hovering over the clock within the taskbar.
• You can now change your time server from Settings > Time & language > Date & time, underneath “Additional settings”.
• The formatting settings for date and time have moved from Settings > Time & language > Language & area to Settings > Time & language > Date & time, and now you can change your AM/PM image from right here as effectively (together with different current formatting settings).
• You can now change quantity and foreign money format from Settings > Time & language > Language & area, underneath the “Region” part.
• If you’d prefer to allow Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language assist, there’s now a toggle for this underneath Settings > Time & language > Language & area, underneath the “Language” part.
• If wanted, now you can copy present person language and area settings to welcome display and system account, in addition to new person accounts, from Settings > Time & language > Language & area, underneath “Additional settings”.

Fixes

[General]

• Fixed an underlying situation with dao360.dll within the newest builds which might lead to some apps crashing.

[Click to Do (Preview)]

• Fixed the difficulty inflicting textual content and picture actions in Click to Do to not work appropriately and Click to Do to crash.

[File Explorer]

• Fixed a difficulty the place File Explorer preview home windows may seem when hovering over unrelated app icons within the taskbar.
• Fixed a difficulty the place in the event you tried to make use of the unblock open in Properties for a file, it nonetheless exhibits as blocked while you open Properties the following time.

[Taskbar]

• Fixed a difficulty the place If you by accident clicked down and slid your mouse on the taskbar preview thumbnail, clicking it will cease working.

[Input]

• Fixed an underlying situation associated to textinputframework.dll might lead to sure apps like Sticky Notes and Notepad crashing.
• Fixed a difficulty the place in the event you tried to sort Chinese with an IME after copying one thing with CTRL + C, it might outcome within the first character getting dropped.

[Login and Lock screen]

• Did some work to deal with underlying circumstances which might 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.
• Did some work to deal with an underlying situation which might result in the taskbar being sluggish to load when unlocking your PC after popping out of sleep. This situation might even have led to the password subject and different login display contents not rendering when transitioning from lock display to login display after sleep. If you proceed experiencing points, please report them within the Feedback Hub underneath Install and Update > Logon hangs.

[Live captions]

• Fixed a difficulty the place in the event you modified the opacity of reside captions in Settings > Accessibility > Captions > Caption Style, it had no impact.

[Settings]

• Fixed a difficulty the place Settings may crash in the event you try so as to add a safety key underneath Settings > Account > Sign-in choices.

[Other]

• Fixed a difficulty within the earlier construct the place you may see a number of error pop ups about sudden parts when opening Group Policy Editor.

Known points

[General]

• We’re investigating experiences that Settings > System > Storage > Temporary information is getting caught when scanning information. We are additionally investigating earlier Windows Installations additionally not displaying.
• [NEW] Launching cmd non-elevated from the Run dialog might open in Windows Console Host somewhat than Windows Terminal, even when Windows Terminal is your default terminal app. If you’re experiencing this, you may sort wt into Run to launch Windows Terminal immediately.

[Windowing]

• [NEW] You might expertise a rise in DWM crashes on this construct (which might result in you seeing a black flash).

[File Explorer]

• In darkish mode, the pink shade used for a low area drive in This PC could also be unexpectedly mild coloured on this construct. Some of the opposite colours can also be incorrect, together with that black is used for area remaining as an alternative of a extra seen shade.

Reminders for Windows Insiders within the Canary Channel

• The builds we launch to the Canary Channel characterize the most recent platform modifications early within the improvement cycle and shouldn’t be seen as matched to any particular launch of Windows and options and experiences included in these builds might by no means get launched as we check out totally different ideas and get suggestions. Features might change over time, be eliminated, or changed and by no means get launched past Windows Insiders. Some of those options and experiences might present up in future Windows releases after they’re prepared.
• Many options within the Canary Channel are rolled out utilizing Control Feature Rollout technology, beginning with a subset of Insiders and ramping up over time as we monitor suggestions to see how they land earlier than pushing them out to everybody on this channel.
• Some options might present up within the Dev and Beta Channels first earlier than displaying up within the Canary Channel.
• Some options in lively improvement we preview with Windows Insiders will not be absolutely localized and localization will occur over time as options are finalized. As you see points with localization in your language, please report these points to us by way of Feedback Hub.
• To get off the Canary Channel, a clean install of Windows 11 will be required. As a reminder – Insiders can’t swap to a channel that’s receiving builds with decrease construct numbers with out doing a clear set up of Windows 11 attributable to technical setup necessities.
• The desktop watermark proven on the decrease proper nook of the desktop is regular for these pre-release builds.
• Check out Flight Hub for an entire have a look at what construct is by which Insider channel.

Thanks,
Amanda & Brandon