New Windows 11 Build 22526 – Audio Improvements, Faster Search Menu & Fixes (Dev Channel)

In this article, we will talk about the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview Build for the Dev Channel in the Windows Insider Program, which is Build 22526.

We finally received today, the first Windows 11 Preview Build from 2022. This Build brings a few changes and improvements, but also some fixes to known issues that were reported by users in the previous builds.

Changes and Improvements

• Microsoft is now experimenting with showing ALT + TAB as windowed instead of full screen for some Insiders.
• Microsoft also added support for wideband speech when using Apple AirPods products (AirPods, AirPods Pro, or AirPods Max), improving audio quality for voice calls.
• Starting with Build 22518, Credential Guard is now enabled by default on Windows 11 Enterprise (E3 and E5) licensed PCs that are enterprise-joined.
• They are also experimenting with indexing more file locations so that using search to find important files in Files Explorer is quicker.

Fixes

[File Explorer]

• Did some work to help address an issue where if you’d used search in File Explorer, and then explorer.exe crashed, the next time you tried to search in File Explorer it wouldn’t work.

[Search]

• We’ve made another fix to help address the recent searches flyout getting stuck on the screen (appearing transparent except the border).
• Improved the resolution of app icons displayed in search results when the display scaling was set to greater than 100%.

[Spotlight collection]

• If you’re using spotlight collection, the current image should migrate on upgrade now (if the build you’re upgrading from is Build 22523 or higher).

[Widgets]

• Fixed an issue result in the Widgets board potentially not having the correct resolution when hovering over the entry point on a secondary monitor.
• Addressed an issue where the Widgets board would temporarily be blank, showing only an Add Widgets button (which also opened to a blank dialog).

[Other]

• Fixed a bugcheck with KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED remote desktop users were encountering when attempting to shutdown or restart.
• Microsoft Store should no longer show a message that trying to install the latest Web Media Extension update is returning error code 0x80073CFB.
• Addressed a DWM crash impacting some Insiders on the previous flight.

If you want to check out the list of known issues, you can read this article from the official Microsoft Blog.

For a more in-depth presentation of the new build, you can watch the video below from the youtube channel.