In this article, we will talk about the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview Build for the Dev Channel, which is the Build 26200.5661.
Disclaimer: Starting with Build 26200.5510 releases on March 24th, the Dev Channel has jumped ahead to receive 26200 series builds. This means that the window to switch from the Dev Channel to the Beta Channel is closed. These 26200 series builds are based on Windows 11, version 24H2 and will contain many of the same features and improvements as the 26120 series builds that will continue to be released in the Beta Channel.
New Recall Homepage
After you opt-in to snapshot collection, your homepage becomes your personalized productivity portal, displaying:
- Recent Snapshots: Your most recent snapshots captured by Recall, helping you quickly pick up where you left off.
- Top Apps and Websites: A curated view of the top three applications and websites you have spent the most time on in the past 24 hours.
New Flyouts Location
Microsoft is adding the option to move the hardware indicators for brightness, volume, airplane mode, and virtual desktops to different positions on your screen. We’ll support the current bottom position and new top left and top center positions on your screen.
To change the position of your flyouts, go to Settings > System > Notifications and use the dropdown for Position of the onscreen pop-up.
New Start Menu Change
Microsoft is adding a Boolean to the Configure Start Pins policy to allow admins to apply Start menu pins once. This means that a user will receive admin pins on day 0 but can then make any changes to their Start pinned layout and have those safeguarded. These changes can be optionally applied through the existing configuration service provider (CSP).
File Explorer
Microsoft is restarting the roll out of AI actions in File Explorer that began rolling out with Build 26200.5603. Some Insiders may have seen the feature disappear.
New Settings Features
- In the most recently flights, we have added the country or region selected during device setup under Settings > Time & language > Language & region.
- Also more date & time options from Control Panel coming to Settings: additional clocks.
New Windows Spotlight Flyout Changes
Microsoft is experimenting with changes to the Desktop Spotlight UX again.
Fixes in this Build
General
- Fixed an underlying issue in the previous flight which caused input to not work for some Insiders again, including when typing into Search, and with the Chinese pinyin IME candidate window, clipboard history, and the emoji panel.
- Fixed the issue causing the Windows Vista boot sound to play instead of the Windows 11 boot sound.
- Fixed an issue where the option to reset your PC under Settings > System > Recovery wasn’t working on the previous build.
- Fixed an underlying issue leading to certain KVM virtual machines unexpectedly failing to boot, showing “UNSUPPORTED_PROCESSOR”.
- Fixed the issue causing a small number of Insiders to experience repeated bugchecks with KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE after upgrading to most current Dev Channel builds.
Taskbar
- Fixed an underlying issue causing some Insiders using the Italian display language to experience repeated explorer.exe crashes in the previous flight.
File Explorer
- Fixed an issue which was causing File Explorer Home to only show a single folder (like Desktop) and nothing else for a small number of people.
- Fixed an underlying issue which was leading to noticeable performance degradation when navigating File Explorer and opening the context menu the more SharePoint sites were synced to File Explorer. This may have also impacted the performance of launching files in this scenario.
Settings
- Fixed an issue where the items under Settings > Windows Update > Update History > Uninstall updates might appear sorted randomly rather than sorted by date.
For more information about this Build, you can check this article from the Microsoft Blog.
For a more in-depth presentation of the New Build, you can watch the video below from the youtube channel.
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