New Windows 11 Build 22624.1690 – Start Menu Change, New Settings Alerts and Fixes (Beta)

In this article, we will talk about the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview Build for the Beta Channel, which is Build 22624.1690.

Microsoft is releasing updates to the Beta Channel that put Windows Insiders into one of two groups similar to what they did back in 2019:

• A group of Insiders in the Beta Channel will receive Build 22623.xxx updates that will have new features getting rolled out or turned on via an enablement package like how we release updates for Windows 10 today.
• A group of Insiders in the Beta Channel will receive Build 22621.xxx updates that will have new features turned off by default.

This way, Microsoft will be able to test out new features easier.

If you receive the Build that has all the features automatically turned off, you can enable them manually in 2 ways:

• Search for Update in the Settings App Windows Update
• Use Vivetool to manually enable the features

What’s New in Builds 22621.1680 and 22624.1680

New Facebook Widget

Facebook is rolling out a preview version of their widget. To give it a try, download the Facebook app from the Microsoft Store or update to the latest version of the app. Then open the widgets board and navigate to the widgets picker by clicking the “+” button at the top-right of the board to pin your widget.

New Settings Alerts

Microsoft is trying out providing alerts under Settings > Accounts advising users to add a recovery email address or phone number to their Microsoft account to ensure they never lose access to their account.

Start Menu Change

Microsoft is trying out a small change with some Windows Insiders where the “Recommended” section of the Start menu is changed to “For you”.

Fixes in Build 22624.1690

Input

• Made another fix for the underlying crash impacting the ability to launch the touch keyboard / PIN entry on the login screen.

Notifications

• Fixed another 2FA code pattern which wasn’t being recognized. If you see any others, please file feedback!

Task Manager

• Did some work to help address an issue which was causing random processes to sometimes get grouped under Microsoft Edge even though they weren’t related.
• Fixed an issue impacting Task Manager reliability.
• The search icon should be easier to see now when using a contrast theme.
• Made the navigation pane a bit narrower. As part of this change, when necessary, the text will be wrapped now.
• The creation of live kernel memory dump file submenu has access keys now.
• Pressing enter when keyboard focus is on one of the sections (like Memory) in the Performance page should now actually switch sections.
• Resizing Task Manager from the top of the window should work now.

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.