Microsoft has launched Home windows 11 KB5062553 and KB5062552 cumulative updates for variations 24H2 and 23H2 to repair safety vulnerabilities and points.
At this time’s updates are obligatory as they include the July 2025 Patch Tuesday safety patches for vulnerabilities found in earlier months.
You can set up at the moment’s replace by going to Begin > Settings > Home windows Replace and clicking on ‘Verify for Updates.’
You too can manually obtain and set up the replace from the Microsoft Replace Catalog.
What’s new within the July 2025 Patch Tuesday replace
After putting in at the moment’s safety updates, Home windows 11 24H2 (KB5062553) can have its construct quantity modified to Construct 26100.4652, and 23H2 (KB5062552) will probably be modified to 226×1.5624.
July 2025’s Patch Tuesday replace has a whole lot of modifications. For instance, now you can activate smaller taskbar icons. And Click on to Do on Copilot+ PCs now have Microsoft 365 Copilot button, however you will not see majority of the modifications due to CFR (Managed Characteristic Rollout).
Here is the total record of enhancements:
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[App defaults]
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[Click to Do (Preview)] New! Ask Microsoft 365 Copilot is a brand new motion in Click on to Do on Copilot+ PCs. Use it to ship textual content or pictures to Microsoft 365 Copilot, which is able to reply to your questions. The Ask Microsoft 365 Copilot motion requires a Microsoft 365 license and follows your group’s privateness insurance policies.
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[Narrator]
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New! The Display screen Curtain function in Narrator helps defend your privateness and enhance focus by blacking out the display whereas Narrator reads content material aloud. That is particularly useful in public or shared areas, the place you may work with delicate info with out others seeing your display. To activate Narrator, press Ctrl + Home windows + Enter. Then press Caps Lock + Ctrl + C to activate Display screen Curtain. Whereas it’s on, you should utilize Narrator as ordinary with the display hidden. Press Caps Lock + Ctrl + C once more to show it off.
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New! Narrator makes it simpler to find and find out about its options immediately inside the expertise. Whether or not you are new or exploring superior choices, Narrator will information you thru the most recent updates utilizing a sequence of steps and prompts that designate every new function and alter.
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[PC Migration] New! The PC-to-PC migration expertise in Home windows is beginning to roll out. You’ll start to see the touchdown and the pairing web page within the Home windows Backup app, supplying you with a primary take a look at what’s coming. Within the full expertise, you’ll have the ability to switch information and settings from an previous PC to a brand new one throughout setup. Help for this function throughout PC setup will arrive in a future replace. The rollout is being launched in phases to assist a easy expertise.
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[Settings]
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New! We’re beginning to roll out the Settings homepage for industrial clients on PCs managed by an IT administrator. The function will present some current playing cards related to enterprise-managed PCs like “Beneficial settings” and “Bluetooth gadgets” in addition to two new enterprise-specific gadget information and accessibility preferences playing cards. For industrial clients who additionally use their Microsoft account on their managed PC, there may also be a brand new accounts card indicating the presence of each work and faculty and Microsoft account varieties.
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New! The nation or area chosen throughout gadget setup now seems below Settings > Time & language > Language & area.
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[Taskbar & System Tray]
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New! The taskbar now resizes icons to suit extra apps when house runs low, protecting every part seen and straightforward to entry. You may regulate how icons seem in settings—cut back icon measurement solely when the taskbar is full (default), preserve icons at their authentic measurement always by deciding on By no means, or use smaller icons on a regular basis by deciding on At all times. To vary this setting, right-click an empty space on the taskbar, choose Taskbar settings, develop the Taskbar behaviors part, and select your desire below Present smaller taskbar buttons.
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New! Along with the brand new grouping of the Accessibility menu in Fast settings, there are textual content descriptions for the assistive applied sciences like Narrator, Voice entry, and extra for simpler identification and studying.
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New! Adjusted the indicator (capsule) below taskbar apps to make it wider and extra seen.
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Fastened: WIN + CTRL + Quantity would not work anymore for switching home windows of an open app within the taskbar.
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Fastened: When utilizing taskbar in Home windows, the media controls that seem within the preview home windows for apps would possibly unexpectedly flicker.
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[Voice Access]
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New! Now you can use Voice entry to navigate, dictate, and work together with Home windows utilizing voice instructions in Simplified Chinese language and Conventional Chinese language.
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New! You may add customized phrases to the dictionary in voice entry. The function will probably be accessible in all of the at present supported voice entry languages.
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Microsoft shouldn’t be conscious of any new points, however the changelog nonetheless lists drawback with sure fonts in areas like China, Japan and Korea.
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