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Microsoft has launched the non-obligatory KB5031455 Preview cumulative replace for Home windows 11 22H2, which permits 72 new Second 4 options by default and fixes 22 points.

The KB5031455 cumulative replace preview is a part of Microsoft’s “non-obligatory non-security preview updates” schedule, launched on the fourth week of each month.

This replace permits Home windows admins to check upcoming fixes and options that shall be launched in subsequent month’s November Patch Tuesday. Nonetheless, in contrast to Patch Tuesday cumulative updates, these preview updates don’t embody safety updates. 

Home windows customers can set up this replace by going into Settings, clicking on Home windows Replace, and manually performing a ‘Verify for Updates.’

As that is an non-obligatory replace, you’ll be requested whether or not you want to set up it by clicking the ‘Obtain and set up’ hyperlink, as proven within the picture beneath.

After putting in this replace, Home windows 11 22H2 shall be up to date to construct 22621.2506.

Home windows 11 customers may also manually obtain and set up the KB5031455 preview replace from the Microsoft Replace Catalog.

New Second 4 options for everybody

With the discharge of the KB5031455 replace, Microsoft has now enabled all of its Second 4 options by default, bringing seventy-two new options to Home windows 11.

These new options should not minor tweaks however carry important adjustments and customization to the working system that we normally see by way of a Home windows function replace.

Nonetheless, Microsoft has switched to a “steady innovation” Home windows technique that rolls out new options as they’re prepared quite than ready to be put in through function updates. This new technique permits the corporate to quickly launch options all year long quite than throughout scheduled patching intervals.

There are too many new options to record individually, however beneath are a few of the highlighted ones:

• Microsoft’s AI-powered Copilot for Home windows is now enabled for preview.
• Microsoft lastly brings the “By no means Mix” function to the Home windows 11 taskbar. Nonetheless, this function nonetheless prevents you from turning off Home windows titles, making it ineffective for a lot of.
• Microsoft additionally introduced the improved quantity mixer to Fast Settings and the flexibility to cover the time on the taskbar.
• The Home windows 11 File Explorer has been overhauled with a brand new trendy expertise, a brand new Photograph Gallery function, and higher integration with Microsoft OneDrive.
• Microsoft now has native help for a wide range of file archive codecs, together with .tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar.zst, .tar.xz, .tgz, .tbz2, .tzst, .txz, .rar, and .7z recordsdata. Nonetheless, Home windows doesn’t help password-protected archives for these codecs.
• New Home windows Share options, together with help for emailing shared objects by way of Microsoft Outlook.
• Microsoft has added a brand new Microsoft Backup app that brings the entire working system’s backup capabilities right into a single interface.
• Home windows 11 now has a built-in Passkey Supervisor that means that you can save passkeys generated on web sites for passwordless logins.
• Home windows 11 now has an Auto Colour Administration (ACM) function for Commonplace Dynamic Vary (SDR) shows. 
• New Settings pages for varied options, together with Bluetooth, Builders, Power Suggestions, and Dynamic Lighting. Microsoft additionally modified many different Settings pages to make configuration choices extra intuitive.
• Home windows 365 Change is right here, permitting customers of the digital PC service to modify between their desktops and the distant PC seamlessly.

The one recognized subject on this replace is expounded to BitLocker, which is reporting a 65000 error within the “Require Machine Encryption” setting.

Microsoft says that is solely a reporting subject and doesn’t have an effect on drive encryption. The corporate plans on fixing it in a future replace.

An entire record of fixes may be discovered within the KB5031455 help bulletin.