Corrine Administrator, Microsoft MVP, Security Analyst Staff member Joined Feb 22, 2012 Posts 12,064 Location Upstate, NY Jun 28, 2021 #1 Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.51 Released to Insiders on the Dev Channel: Announcing the first Insider Preview for Windows 11 | Windows Insider Blog Announcing the first Insider Preview for Windows 11 See the blog post for writeup and images of Windows 11. Also see Update on Windows 11 minimum system requirements | Windows Insider Blog. Last edited: Jun 28, 2021
Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.51 Released to Insiders on the Dev Channel: Announcing the first Insider Preview for Windows 11 | Windows Insider Blog Announcing the first Insider Preview for Windows 11 See the blog post for writeup and images of Windows 11. Also see Update on Windows 11 minimum system requirements | Windows Insider Blog.
philc43 BSOD Forum Moderator, BSOD Academy Instructor, BSOD Kernel Dump Expert Staff member Joined Jul 7, 2017 Posts 1,962 Location Cambridge, UK Jun 28, 2021 #2 Downloaded and installed in about 1h 15m on my Hyper-V Insider DEV build. Interestingly this VM is hosted on a PC which will not upgrade to W11 due to the CPU being a 3rd generation i5. Seems not to have affected my insider dev build which updated normally through WU. Looks like I'll be able to explore W11 with no problem. It looks to be a slick build - I like what I've seen so far.
Downloaded and installed in about 1h 15m on my Hyper-V Insider DEV build. Interestingly this VM is hosted on a PC which will not upgrade to W11 due to the CPU being a 3rd generation i5. Seems not to have affected my insider dev build which updated normally through WU. Looks like I'll be able to explore W11 with no problem. It looks to be a slick build - I like what I've seen so far.
Corrine Administrator, Microsoft MVP, Security Analyst Staff member Joined Feb 22, 2012 Posts 12,064 Location Upstate, NY Jul 8, 2021 #3 Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.65 See the blog post for the long lists of changes, improvements, and fixes in DEV Build 22000.65.
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.65 See the blog post for the long lists of changes, improvements, and fixes in DEV Build 22000.65.
philc43 BSOD Forum Moderator, BSOD Academy Instructor, BSOD Kernel Dump Expert Staff member Joined Jul 7, 2017 Posts 1,962 Location Cambridge, UK Jul 9, 2021 #4 Downloaded and updated without any problems. Nice to see some of the problems reported in FBH have been fixed already!
Downloaded and updated without any problems. Nice to see some of the problems reported in FBH have been fixed already!
Corrine Administrator, Microsoft MVP, Security Analyst Staff member Joined Feb 22, 2012 Posts 12,064 Location Upstate, NY Jul 15, 2021 #5 Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.71 The Build includes a new entertainment widget, new context menus and more along with a very long list of fixes.for the Taskbar, Settings, File Explorer, Search, Widgets, and more. Last edited: Jul 15, 2021
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.71 The Build includes a new entertainment widget, new context menus and more along with a very long list of fixes.for the Taskbar, Settings, File Explorer, Search, Widgets, and more.
philc43 BSOD Forum Moderator, BSOD Academy Instructor, BSOD Kernel Dump Expert Staff member Joined Jul 7, 2017 Posts 1,962 Location Cambridge, UK Jul 16, 2021 #6 This build showed up in WU and installed eventually - the first time it seemed to fail (hung for a long time and became frozen) and I reverted back to the previous checkpoint and tried again. Second time worked fine. I can't see any entertainment widget though - even though I am in the list of countries where it should be available. Is the roll out of this feature not immediate?
This build showed up in WU and installed eventually - the first time it seemed to fail (hung for a long time and became frozen) and I reverted back to the previous checkpoint and tried again. Second time worked fine. I can't see any entertainment widget though - even though I am in the list of countries where it should be available. Is the roll out of this feature not immediate?
Corrine Administrator, Microsoft MVP, Security Analyst Staff member Joined Feb 22, 2012 Posts 12,064 Location Upstate, NY Jul 22, 2021 #7 Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.100 See the blog post for the changes and improvements as well as a long list of fixes to the Taskbar, Settings, File Explorer, Search, Widgets and more.
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.100 See the blog post for the changes and improvements as well as a long list of fixes to the Taskbar, Settings, File Explorer, Search, Widgets and more.
Corrine Administrator, Microsoft MVP, Security Analyst Staff member Joined Feb 22, 2012 Posts 12,064 Location Upstate, NY Aug 5, 2021 #8 Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.120 Build is for both and Dev and Beta Channels. See the blog post for the long list of fixes.
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.120 Build is for both and Dev and Beta Channels. See the blog post for the long list of fixes.
Corrine Administrator, Microsoft MVP, Security Analyst Staff member Joined Feb 22, 2012 Posts 12,064 Location Upstate, NY Aug 12, 2021 #9 Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.132 Again, the Build is for everyone in the Dev and Beta Channels and the blog post includes a long list of Known issues. Fixes Search: Did some work to address a scenario where the recent searches list displayed when hovering over the Search icon in the Taskbar was unexpectedly blank. Widgets: We fixed the issue where launching links from the widgets board wasn’t always invoking apps to the foreground. Clicking the widgets icon in the Taskbar should open it on the correct monitor now. Windows Sandbox: The Taskbar (Explorer.exe) should no longer repeatedly crash inside of Windows Sandbox. Other: Addressed an issue leading to some Insiders experiencing a bug check when attempting to roll back in the previous flight. Mitigated an issue that was making certain games go unresponsive after pressing the Enter key. Fixed an issue where the “location in use” indicator icon wasn’t showing up in the Taskbar when it should have been.
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.132 Again, the Build is for everyone in the Dev and Beta Channels and the blog post includes a long list of Known issues. Fixes Search: Did some work to address a scenario where the recent searches list displayed when hovering over the Search icon in the Taskbar was unexpectedly blank. Widgets: We fixed the issue where launching links from the widgets board wasn’t always invoking apps to the foreground. Clicking the widgets icon in the Taskbar should open it on the correct monitor now. Windows Sandbox: The Taskbar (Explorer.exe) should no longer repeatedly crash inside of Windows Sandbox. Other: Addressed an issue leading to some Insiders experiencing a bug check when attempting to roll back in the previous flight. Mitigated an issue that was making certain games go unresponsive after pressing the Enter key. Fixed an issue where the “location in use” indicator icon wasn’t showing up in the Taskbar when it should have been.
xrobwx71 Administrator Staff member Joined Sep 27, 2019 Posts 2,631 Location Panama City Beach, FL Aug 12, 2021 #10 Downloaded and installed on a Hyper-V. We'll see, installing now.
Corrine Administrator, Microsoft MVP, Security Analyst Staff member Joined Feb 22, 2012 Posts 12,064 Location Upstate, NY Aug 19, 2021 #11 Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.160 Build is released to everyone in the Dev and Beta Channels. In addition, the ISOs for Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.132 have been released to the Windows Insider Preview Downloads page. The ISOs can be used to do a clean installation or in-place upgrade. Fixes Taskbar: We fixed an issue where the “location in use” icon was showing in the Taskbar sometimes even though the usage was blocked by your preferences.
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.160 Build is released to everyone in the Dev and Beta Channels. In addition, the ISOs for Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.132 have been released to the Windows Insider Preview Downloads page. The ISOs can be used to do a clean installation or in-place upgrade. Fixes Taskbar: We fixed an issue where the “location in use” icon was showing in the Taskbar sometimes even though the usage was blocked by your preferences.
Corrine Administrator, Microsoft MVP, Security Analyst Staff member Joined Feb 22, 2012 Posts 12,064 Location Upstate, NY Aug 27, 2021 #12 Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.168 Quote IMPORTANT REMINDER: If you are in the Dev Channel, now would be the right time to consider switching to the Beta Channel if you want to stay on more stabilized builds of Windows 11. For those of you who are new to the Windows Insider Program and flighting of OS updates – check out this article for how flighting works. (We use the term “flighting” for the activity of releasing new OS updates to Insiders.) Click to expand... Fixes Search: We’ve addressed an underlying issue in the last couple flights for pen enabled devices that was resulting in Search getting into a state where it wasn’t possible to launch apps from the results. Settings: We fixed an issue where typing certain phrases into the search box in Settings were crashing Settings sometimes. Widgets: When using the Family widget, you should no longer unexpectedly see a message saying ‘connect a device to see screen time activity’ despite there being available activity to display. Chat from Microsoft Teams: We fixed the issue where sometimes videos would freeze or display a black image during video calls. We also fixed the issue where if you switched between calls, the previous call is not automatically put on hold, so audio and video streams continue with both calls.
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.168 Quote IMPORTANT REMINDER: If you are in the Dev Channel, now would be the right time to consider switching to the Beta Channel if you want to stay on more stabilized builds of Windows 11. For those of you who are new to the Windows Insider Program and flighting of OS updates – check out this article for how flighting works. (We use the term “flighting” for the activity of releasing new OS updates to Insiders.) Click to expand... Fixes Search: We’ve addressed an underlying issue in the last couple flights for pen enabled devices that was resulting in Search getting into a state where it wasn’t possible to launch apps from the results. Settings: We fixed an issue where typing certain phrases into the search box in Settings were crashing Settings sometimes. Widgets: When using the Family widget, you should no longer unexpectedly see a message saying ‘connect a device to see screen time activity’ despite there being available activity to display. Chat from Microsoft Teams: We fixed the issue where sometimes videos would freeze or display a black image during video calls. We also fixed the issue where if you switched between calls, the previous call is not automatically put on hold, so audio and video streams continue with both calls.
Corrine Administrator, Microsoft MVP, Security Analyst Staff member Joined Feb 22, 2012 Posts 12,064 Location Upstate, NY Sep 2, 2021 #13 Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22449 You may notice that this build number is higher than the Windows 11 preview builds you’ve been receiving. That’s because we’re moving the Dev Channel back to receiving builds from our active development branch (RS_PRERELEASE). This means the builds released to the Dev Channel no longer match the Windows 11 experience that will be released to customers on October 5th. Click to expand... See the blog post for the very long list of fixes.
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22449 You may notice that this build number is higher than the Windows 11 preview builds you’ve been receiving. That’s because we’re moving the Dev Channel back to receiving builds from our active development branch (RS_PRERELEASE). This means the builds released to the Dev Channel no longer match the Windows 11 experience that will be released to customers on October 5th. Click to expand... See the blog post for the very long list of fixes.
Corrine Administrator, Microsoft MVP, Security Analyst Staff member Joined Feb 22, 2012 Posts 12,064 Location Upstate, NY Sep 9, 2021 #14 Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22454 REMINDER: Build numbers are higher in the Dev Channel than the Windows 11 preview builds in the Beta Channel because we’ve moved the Dev Channel back to receiving builds from our active development branch (RS_PRERELEASE). This means the builds released to the Dev Channel no longer match the Windows 11 experience that will be released to customers on October 5th. The desktop watermark you see at the lower right corner of your desktop is normal for these pre-release builds. Click to expand... See the blog post for the very long list of fixes.
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22454 REMINDER: Build numbers are higher in the Dev Channel than the Windows 11 preview builds in the Beta Channel because we’ve moved the Dev Channel back to receiving builds from our active development branch (RS_PRERELEASE). This means the builds released to the Dev Channel no longer match the Windows 11 experience that will be released to customers on October 5th. The desktop watermark you see at the lower right corner of your desktop is normal for these pre-release builds. Click to expand... See the blog post for the very long list of fixes.
Corrine Administrator, Microsoft MVP, Security Analyst Staff member Joined Feb 22, 2012 Posts 12,064 Location Upstate, NY Sep 15, 2021 #15 Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22458 Fixes
xrobwx71 Administrator Staff member Joined Sep 27, 2019 Posts 2,631 Location Panama City Beach, FL Sep 16, 2021 #16 I like it. (in a VM so far) If that new taskbar pans out, I may get rid of Rocket Dock.
Corrine Administrator, Microsoft MVP, Security Analyst Staff member Joined Feb 22, 2012 Posts 12,064 Location Upstate, NY Sep 22, 2021 #17 Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22463 Fixes
Corrine Administrator, Microsoft MVP, Security Analyst Staff member Joined Feb 22, 2012 Posts 12,064 Location Upstate, NY Sep 28, 2021 #18 Redesigned Paint app for Windows 11 begins rolling out to Windows Insiders | Windows Insider Blog Here’s another @Windows 11 first look. This is the beautifully redesigned Paint app, coming soon to Windows Insiders. Can’t wait to see your creations! #Windows11 #WindowsInsiders pic.twitter.com/jiKyfqQFUV — Panos Panay (@panos_panay) August 18, 2021 Click to expand...
Redesigned Paint app for Windows 11 begins rolling out to Windows Insiders | Windows Insider Blog Here’s another @Windows 11 first look. This is the beautifully redesigned Paint app, coming soon to Windows Insiders. Can’t wait to see your creations! #Windows11 #WindowsInsiders pic.twitter.com/jiKyfqQFUV — Panos Panay (@panos_panay) August 18, 2021 Click to expand...
Corrine Administrator, Microsoft MVP, Security Analyst Staff member Joined Feb 22, 2012 Posts 12,064 Location Upstate, NY Sep 29, 2021 #19 Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22468 Build Expiration Reminder: We have updated the build expiration for Dev Channel builds starting with Build 22468 to be 9/15/2022. Previous Dev Channel builds from the RS_PRERELEASE branch will expire on 10/31/2021. To avoid hitting this expiration, please update to Build 22468 today. Click to expand... Fixes [Taskbar] Mitigated a rare explorer.exe initialization hang related to loading the network icon. [Search] Improved reliability of showing the flyout when hovering over the Search icon in the Taskbar. If you navigate to the Search icon in the Taskbar using the keyboard, navigating away will now dismiss the recent searches flyout. The options when right clicking recent files displayed when searching for certain apps like Word should work now when you select them. [File Explorer] If you right click files in OneDrive locations in File Explorer, the context menu will no longer unexpectedly dismiss when you hover over entries that open sub-menus, like “Open with.” Double clicking a network folder to open it will no longer unexpectedly try to pin it to Quick Access instead of opening it. [Input] Addressed an underlying font issue that was making the right hand of the shruggie kaomoji ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ not display in the correct position, as well as apostrophes in certain cases. [Settings] Your preferred microphone input format setting (as configured in Sound Settings) should persist upgrade now. Addressed an issue where certain drives were unexpectedly not displaying in Defragment and Optimize Drives. [Other] We’ve resolved the issue preventing MDM enrolled PCs from successfully updating to the previous build. These devices are now unblocked from updating to the latest build. Fixed an issue that could cause unexpected flickering in certain apps such as Microsoft Edge when using multiple monitors with different refresh rates. Mitigated a display related issue that was causing some Insiders to experience an increase in bug checks in recent flights. Did some work to address an issue where the Windows Update icon in the Taskbar might display but suddenly disappear when you hovered over it. Addressed a rare issue with certain devices after sleep where Wi-Fi would get stuck in an off state and trying to toggle it back on wouldn’t work. Mitigated an issue for certain devices that could cause the system to freeze in some scenarios.
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22468 Build Expiration Reminder: We have updated the build expiration for Dev Channel builds starting with Build 22468 to be 9/15/2022. Previous Dev Channel builds from the RS_PRERELEASE branch will expire on 10/31/2021. To avoid hitting this expiration, please update to Build 22468 today. Click to expand... Fixes [Taskbar] Mitigated a rare explorer.exe initialization hang related to loading the network icon. [Search] Improved reliability of showing the flyout when hovering over the Search icon in the Taskbar. If you navigate to the Search icon in the Taskbar using the keyboard, navigating away will now dismiss the recent searches flyout. The options when right clicking recent files displayed when searching for certain apps like Word should work now when you select them. [File Explorer] If you right click files in OneDrive locations in File Explorer, the context menu will no longer unexpectedly dismiss when you hover over entries that open sub-menus, like “Open with.” Double clicking a network folder to open it will no longer unexpectedly try to pin it to Quick Access instead of opening it. [Input] Addressed an underlying font issue that was making the right hand of the shruggie kaomoji ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ not display in the correct position, as well as apostrophes in certain cases. [Settings] Your preferred microphone input format setting (as configured in Sound Settings) should persist upgrade now. Addressed an issue where certain drives were unexpectedly not displaying in Defragment and Optimize Drives. [Other] We’ve resolved the issue preventing MDM enrolled PCs from successfully updating to the previous build. These devices are now unblocked from updating to the latest build. Fixed an issue that could cause unexpected flickering in certain apps such as Microsoft Edge when using multiple monitors with different refresh rates. Mitigated a display related issue that was causing some Insiders to experience an increase in bug checks in recent flights. Did some work to address an issue where the Windows Update icon in the Taskbar might display but suddenly disappear when you hovered over it. Addressed a rare issue with certain devices after sleep where Wi-Fi would get stuck in an off state and trying to toggle it back on wouldn’t work. Mitigated an issue for certain devices that could cause the system to freeze in some scenarios.
Corrine Administrator, Microsoft MVP, Security Analyst Staff member Joined Feb 22, 2012 Posts 12,064 Location Upstate, NY Oct 4, 2021 #20 Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22471 Note The build expiration for Dev Channel builds starting with Build 22468 to be 9/15/2022 continues. Previous Dev Channel builds from the RS_PRERELEASE branch will expire on 10/31/2021. Fixes [Taskbar] We fixed an underlying issue that was causing the Taskbar’s hidden icons flyout to have sharp corners instead of rounded corners sometimes. Using the down arrow when interacting with the Desktops flyout’s context menu should now move focus down the menu instead of dismissing it. [File Explorer] Fixed an issue that was making explorer.exe crash sometimes when closing File Explorer windows. [Input] Addressed an issue where voice typing might fail with an error message citing a network connection issue when that was not actually the cause of the failure. If you’re using the touch keyboard in “Kana” key mode for the Japanese IME, the key labels will now correctly show the character that will be input when you’re holding Shift. Mitigated a race condition that was causing textinputhost.exe to crash on launch sometimes. [Windowing] Typing wt from the Run dialog will now open Windows Terminal in the foreground instead of the background. Addressed an issue that could lead to apps getting stuck in a minimized state after disconnecting an external monitor and resuming the system from sleep. [Other] Addressed a network issue for Insiders running certain traffic optimization software. This should lead to improved performance on websites utilizing HTTP/3. Fixed and issue where some devices were failing to update to a newer build with error code 0xc1900101. If you are still experiencing this error code, please file a new piece of feedback in Feedback Hub. Updated the “reboot needed” dialog for Windows Update to now say Windows 11. Please note that you will only see the results of this change when prompted to reboot for the next flight, as you need to be on a build with the change. Fixed a DWM crash that could happen when enabling a contrast theme. Corrected an issue for ARM64 PCs that could result in certain apps not responding to display language changes if they were installed prior to upgrading to Windows 11. Addressed an issue where when explorer.exe is launched from an elevated process was using a lower memory priority, impacting the performance of all processes launched after it (Issue #55).
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22471 Note The build expiration for Dev Channel builds starting with Build 22468 to be 9/15/2022 continues. Previous Dev Channel builds from the RS_PRERELEASE branch will expire on 10/31/2021. Fixes [Taskbar] We fixed an underlying issue that was causing the Taskbar’s hidden icons flyout to have sharp corners instead of rounded corners sometimes. Using the down arrow when interacting with the Desktops flyout’s context menu should now move focus down the menu instead of dismissing it. [File Explorer] Fixed an issue that was making explorer.exe crash sometimes when closing File Explorer windows. [Input] Addressed an issue where voice typing might fail with an error message citing a network connection issue when that was not actually the cause of the failure. If you’re using the touch keyboard in “Kana” key mode for the Japanese IME, the key labels will now correctly show the character that will be input when you’re holding Shift. Mitigated a race condition that was causing textinputhost.exe to crash on launch sometimes. [Windowing] Typing wt from the Run dialog will now open Windows Terminal in the foreground instead of the background. Addressed an issue that could lead to apps getting stuck in a minimized state after disconnecting an external monitor and resuming the system from sleep. [Other] Addressed a network issue for Insiders running certain traffic optimization software. This should lead to improved performance on websites utilizing HTTP/3. Fixed and issue where some devices were failing to update to a newer build with error code 0xc1900101. If you are still experiencing this error code, please file a new piece of feedback in Feedback Hub. Updated the “reboot needed” dialog for Windows Update to now say Windows 11. Please note that you will only see the results of this change when prompted to reboot for the next flight, as you need to be on a build with the change. Fixed a DWM crash that could happen when enabling a contrast theme. Corrected an issue for ARM64 PCs that could result in certain apps not responding to display language changes if they were installed prior to upgrading to Windows 11. Addressed an issue where when explorer.exe is launched from an elevated process was using a lower memory priority, impacting the performance of all processes launched after it (Issue #55).