Microsoft started rolling out Windows 11 Dev Preview Build 25179 to the Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel which came with a few new improvements and a long list of fixes. Along with this rollout, the company also releasing ISOs for this build which can be downloaded from the insiders site.
The most important highlight of this build is the availability of the File Explorer Tabs to everyone in the Dev Channel. For other improvements and fixes, continue reading further.
File explorer tabs and navigation updates were first previewed in Windows 11 Build 25136 in the Dev Channel. Later, it was previewed to Beta Channel insiders also with the build 22621.160. Earlier this feature was limited to a set of insiders, but with the latest Windows 11 Build 25179, it will be available to all insiders in the Dev Channel.
Once enabled, the tabs will reside at the top, just like Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, or any other windows supporting tab view. It will also show you a refreshed layout of the left navigation pane of File Explorer which makes it easy for you to navigate to folders. The updated layout provides you easy access to your pinned and frequently used folders (Quick access) and your OneDrive cloud profiles added to Windows.
In case after installing the Windows 11 Insiders Preview Build 25179 you don’t see these features right away, Microsoft suggests you try rebooting your system.
With the latest insiders build, Microsoft is now trying out a new feature that will sync the spelling dictionary across all devices that use the same Windows account. The feature is currently limited to Microsoft accounts only with AAD support coming later.
You can toggle this feature via Settings > Accounts > Windows backup > Remember my preferences > Language preferences.
Along with this feature, Microsoft is now also adding a language-natural word list for the spelling dictionary.
With the latest Windows 11 Build 25179, Microsoft added the Tamil Anjal keyboard for Tamil users. This keyboard is currently rolling out to a subset of Insiders while we evaluate the quality
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With this build, Microsoft also added a small tweak to improve the key repeat rate for the traditional touch keyboard layout, as well as the default touch keyboard layout. With this improvement, the key press will look more responsive.
- Fixed an issue causing hangs and crashes in apps (like Excel) when attempting to print in the last couple flights.
- Fixed a few issues impacting explorer.exe reliability.
- The Mount option when right clicking things like ISO files should now show an icon in the context menu.
- Fixed an issue where the min / max / close button might not be visible in File Explorer when using a contrast theme.
- We have fixed the issue causing Widgets preferences (temperature units and pinned widgets) to unexpectedly get reset to default.
- Fixed an issue which could lead to the taskbar overflow flyout unexpectedly appearing on the opposite side of the screen.
- Fixed a sporadic crash impacting reliability of the input switcher.
- Fixed an issue where when Suggested Actions was enabled, if you copied multiple items in a row to your clipboard history, some of the items might not display after you pressed WIN + V.
- Fixed an issue which was causing Settings to crash on launch sometimes.
- Improved alignment of the “Scan for phone” button displayed on Accounts > Sign-In Options under Dynamic Lock when your phone failed to connect.
- Your preferred state for the Suggested Actions setting under System > Clipboard should persist upgrade going forward from this build.
- Fixed an issue where when resizing certain app windows near the edge of the screen when using mixed DPI monitors might unexpectedly cause the window to jump and shrink.
- We made a change so that the media controls in Quick Settings will more reliably not load old media you’re no longer using.
- Fixed an issue causing one of the characters in the bugcheck text to not display correctly (as a box) when the display language was set to Chinese.
- Fixed an issue causing app install failures with error 0x80080204 in the last few flights.
- Improved date / time recognition for existing supported locales when using Suggested Actions.
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