Brand new buttons! Windows Connectivity
Add photos from your phone in the File Explorer gallery
Accessing your phone's photo album from your PC is an important daily task, and now it's easier to do it with File Explorer Gallery.
There's a new button for "Add Phone Photos" in the command bar to help you set up your PC to be ready to display these photos in your gallery. Now clicking on this button will open a URL with a QR code that you can scan with your phone to get started.
Nature Voices of Spanish Narrators (Spanish and Mexican)
Microsoft has introduced new natural speech in Spanish (Spain and Mexico) to allow Narrator users to comfortably browse the web, read and compose messages, and more. Natural Narrator's voice uses modern, on-device text-to-speech (TTS) and is supported without an internet connection once downloaded.
To use one of these natural sounds, follow these steps to add it to your PC:
- 按 WIN + Ctrl + N 热键打开讲述人设置。
- Under Narrator's voice, select the Add button next to Add natural sound.
- Select the voice you want to install. You can install all voices, but you have to install them individually.
- 新的西班牙语(西班牙)语音是 Microsoft Alvaro 和 Microsoft Elvira。
- 新的西班牙语(墨西哥)语音是 Microsoft Jorge 和 Microsoft Dalia。
- To start downloading the selected voice, select Install. The new voice will be downloaded and ready for use within a few minutes, depending on your internet download speed.
- After you've downloaded your new voice, in Narrator settings, select your preferred voice from the drop-down menus for Narrator voice > Choose a voice.
Note: If your display language is not set to Spanish, in step 3 you will first need to select "Choose a different language", then select the appropriate language, and then select a specific voice.
[Lock Screen]
- The network eject on the lock screen has been updated to align with Windows 11 design principles.
[File Manager]
- Microsoft is starting to roll out the ability to detach and merge tabs in File Explorer.
[Settings]
- When Wi-Fi is available but poor, it's easier to control whether cellular is used, using the new switches that have been added to Settings > Network & Internet > Cellular.
repair
[File Manager]
- Fixed an issue where pressing Shift + F10 did not open the context menu in File Explorer.
- Fixed an issue where access keys were displayed inconsistently if no buttons were pressed.
The following issues are fixed for previewing the Windows App SDK version of File Explorer,
- Fixed an issue that caused explorer.exe to crash when opening the context menu for some beta testers. The same issue is thought to be the reason why some beta testers are seeing old designs instead of updating them.
Fixed the following issues with the beta gallery in File Explorer:
- Fixed a explorer.exe crash in the last release related to scrollbar loading/interacting in the gallery.
- Fixed an issue where the gallery might require two clicks on a node in the navigation pane for an initial load.
- Fixed an issue where minimizing and reopening File Explorer would lose your scroll position in the gallery.
- Hovering over an image in the gallery now displays a tooltip with information about the image.
- Real-time updates, including filtering, are now enabled, eliminating the need to manually use the refresh button.
- Fixed an issue where some file types, such as .heic, did not render correctly or efficiently.
Fixed the following issues for Insiders via the modernization details pane in File Explorer,
- Make the background of the thumbnail a little brighter in bright mode so that it doesn't stand out too much.
- If you're running Narrator when you open the details pane, it now reads out the file name.
- If the setting to show file extensions is enabled, it will now be reflected in the details pane as well.
[Taskbar]
- Fixed an issue that caused the taskbar to break when switching between tablet-optimized taskbars.
[search on taskbar]
- Fixed an issue that caused beta testers to immediately see empty tooltips in some cases, including if the search box and search highlight new hover behavior were enabled.
[Other]
- Fixed an issue where Braille-enabled Narrator could not read numbered lists correctly in the Microsoft 365 app.
New Performance Mode! Windows blockbuster upgrade
Dev Drive is a new form of storage volume that can be used to improve the performance of critical workloads, built on the Elastic File System (ReFS), including file system optimizations and features that enable developers to better manage their performance and security profiles.
It is designed to meet the needs of developers to host project source code, working folders, and package caches.
To set up a Dev Drive, you can create one or create a new VHD / VHDX in the free space of an existing drive, which you can do via System > Storage> Advanced Storage Settings> Settings under Disks and Volumes, or via the command line.
According to reports, Dev Drive has at least 50GB or more capacity, and Microsoft also recommends 8GB or more RAM.
Thanks to this, Microsoft has also introduced a Performance Mode, a new feature of Microsoft Defender designed for Dev Drive to minimize the impact on developer workloads.
Microsoft has introduced new backup and restore capabilities to the app recovery feature introduced last year, making it easier for users to migrate to a new PC and helping app developers retain users during the transition to a new PC.
Windows Backup App: Microsoft will soon launch this new app to quickly back up your current PC files and configurations and prepare them for migration to another PC.
App pins: Your store app will be pinned where you used before, whether it's the taskbar or the Start menu.
Setup: Quickly restore the setup option from your old device to help you get back into work as quickly as possible.
Users can now use the Correct command to correct misidentified words.
You can say "Correct [text]" or "Correct that" to correct a specific piece of text or the last text you dictated.
A correction window appears with a list of options labeled with numbers.
You can also say "Click [number]" to select any option from the list.
If you select an alternate word from the window, the selected text will be replaced by that word.
In addition, users can directly use the "spell that" or "spell out" command to write the correct spelling of non-standard words such as "username", "subject", etc.
When you turn on the spelling command, the system will automatically pop up the spelling window, where you can dictate letters, numbers, symbols, phonetics, etc., and the system will also give you suggestions (similar to candidates for input methods), you can say "click [number]" to select the suggestion (if any), and the system will automatically accumulate spelling experience, and the next time you dictate the word, phrase, text, it will automatically render suggestions from the Windows dictionary.
Microsoft is introducing new Chinese natural speech (including Microsoft Xiaoxiao and Microsoft Yunxi, which will be familiar to Edge TTS users) to make Narrator sound more comfortable, making it easier for users to browse the web, read and compose emails, and more.
To use one of these natural sounds, follow these steps to add it to your PC:
- 按下 WIN + Ctrl + N 热键打开讲述人设置。
- Under Narrator's Voice, select the Add button next to Add natural sound.
- Select the voice you want to install. You can install all voices, but you have to install them individually.
- To start downloading the selected voice, select Install. The new voice will be downloaded and available in a few minutes, depending on your internet speed.
- After you've downloaded your new voice, in Narrator settings, select your preferred voice from the drop-down menus for Narrator voice > Choose a voice.
In order to minimize the distraction of notification toasts, Microsoft will do this by detecting whether users are interacting with toasts and providing recommendations to turn off toast banners for such apps.
Of course, this will only prevent the banner from appearing, and you can still find the relevant reminder in the notification center.
[Start Menu]
Microsoft is experimenting with a new model to sort the most recently used files in the Recommendations section of the Start menu with a model that references when a user last used a file, file extension, and more.
[Emoji]
Thanks to the requests of countless users, Microsoft began to update its emojis. However, there are still some bugs in this release that will be addressed in a future release.
[Windows Security]
Microsoft has updated the Windows Security (Firewall) notification dialog to match Windows 11 visuals.