In this article, we will talk about the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview Build for the Canary Channel, which is Build 26231.
New Narrator and Voice Access Features
Microsoft is introducing some Features that will improve both the Narrator App and Voice Access:
- Narrator users can now use voice access to dictate text hands-free
- Auto Restart for Voice Access
- New Voice Access Command for Windows Search
New File Explorer Button
Microsoft is beginning to roll out the ability to copy files from the Windows share window. Just click the new copy button.
New Settings Changes
- The change that updates the visuals for the “Rename your PC” and “Change date and time” dialogs to match the Windows 11 visuals that began rolling out with Build 26217 should now be available to everyone in the Canary Channel.
- Also, hidden in the system, there is a New Account Profile Menu, that will allow you to customize your Account Profile Picture in the future.
New Feature Updates could be coming soon
Snipping Tool Update
Microsoft is rolling out an update for Snipping Tool (version 11.2405.24.0 and newer) to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels that introduces automatic save for screen recordings. This feature works the same as automatic save for screenshots. Your recordings will automatically be saved to Screen Recordings folder (inside your Videos folder). You can choose to turn this off in Snipping Tool settings.
Fixes in this Build
File Explorer
- As some Insiders have noticed, we’ve done some work to improve how the new icon labels in the context menu display for non-English languages.
Task Manager
- Updated the units (from MHz to MT/s) for DDR speed.
- Fixed an issue where the Safely Remove Hardware option for ejecting USB devices wouldn’t work if Task Manager was open.
- Did some work to ensure Task Manager releases process handles quickly when terminating processes.
- Made some more improvements to help with Task Manager reliability.
- We have improved the performance when changing the sort order.
- Made multiple improvements to overall accessibility of Task Manager, including improving keyboard focus, tab navigation, text scaling, names of items read out by screen readers, and more.
- We made it a little easier to resize Task Manager when trying to resize by grabbing the top of the window.
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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