Home windows 11 KB5062660 replace brings new ‘Home windows Resilience’ options

​​Microsoft has launched the KB5062660 preview cumulative replace for Home windows 11 24H2 with twenty-nine new options or modifications, with many regularly rolling out, similar to the brand new Black Display screen of Dying and Fast Machine Restoration instrument.

The KB5062660 replace is a part of the corporate’s non-compulsory non-security preview updates schedule, which releases updates on the finish of every month to check new fixes and options coming to subsequent month’s August Patch Tuesday.

Not like common Patch Tuesday cumulative updates, month-to-month non-security preview updates don’t embrace safety updates and are non-compulsory.

You possibly can set up the KB5062660 replace by opening Settings, clicking on Home windows Replace, after which “Examine for Updates.”

As a result of that is an non-compulsory replace, you’ll be requested if you wish to set up it by clicking the “Obtain and set up” hyperlink except you’ve the “Get the most recent updates as quickly as they’re they’re out there” choice enabled, which is able to trigger the replace to robotically set up.

You can too manually obtain and set up the KB5062660 preview replace from the Microsoft Replace Catalog.

Home windows 11 KB5062660 highlights

As soon as put in, this non-compulsory cumulative launch will replace Home windows 11 24H2 programs to construct 26100.4770.

The July 2025 preview replace options many new additions which can be regularly rolling out, together with new Home windows Resiliency Initiative options—the brand new Black Display screen of Dying and the Fast Machine Restoration instrument.

Microsoft’s Home windows Resiliency Initiative is a brand new effort by Microsoft to make Home windows extra secure, self-healing, and sooner to recuperate from crucial failures.

Home windows 11 customers can allow Fast Machine Restoration by navigating to Settings > System > Restoration > Fast Machine Restoration settings.

The entire checklist of modifications is under.

• [Recall]

  
  

  • New! Recall is now out there within the European Financial Space (EEA). For more information, see Retrace your steps with Recall. Within the EEA, Recall helps exporting snapshots to share with trusted third-party apps and web sites. When saving snapshots is turned on for the primary time, a novel Recall export code seems. This code is required to decrypt exported snapshots and is proven solely as soon as throughout preliminary setup. Microsoft doesn’t retailer or recuperate this code. To export, go to Settings > Privateness & Safety > Recall & Snapshots > Superior Settings and authenticate with Home windows Hiya. Select to export previous snapshots (from the final 7 days, 30 days, or all) or begin a steady export. Third-party apps can entry exported snapshots solely when each the export code and folder path are supplied. For those who lose or compromise the export code, reset Recall to generate a brand new one.

  • New! For all Recall customers worldwide, now you can reset Recall and delete all its knowledge. Go to Settings > Privateness & Safety > Recall & Snapshots to discover a new superior settings web page. There, you’ll see a reset button that deletes all of your snapshots and restores Recall to its default settings.

• [Click to Do]

  
  

  • New! ¹ Follow in Studying Coach is a brand new Click on to Do textual content motion that helps you enhance studying fluency and pronunciation. Choose textual content in your display, select Follow in Studying Coach, and skim the textual content aloud. Studying Coach provides you suggestions and exhibits the place to enhance. To make use of this characteristic, set up the free Microsoft Studying Coach app from the Microsoft Retailer.

  • New! ¹ Learn with Immersive Reader is a brand new textual content motion in Click on to Do this shows textual content in a centered, distraction-free setting. It helps enhance studying and writing for all ability ranges and talents. You possibly can alter textual content dimension, spacing, font, and background theme, have textual content learn aloud, break phrases into syllables, and spotlight elements of speech. The image dictionary exhibits photographs for unfamiliar phrases. To make use of this characteristic, set up the free Microsoft Studying Coach software from the Microsoft Retailer.

  • New! ¹With the Draft with Copilot in Phrase textual content motion, you’ll be able to shortly flip any acknowledged textual content right into a full draft. Whether or not it’s a sentence in an e mail or a snippet in your display, press Win + Click on on the acknowledged textual content, then choose Draft with Copilot in Phrase. No extra clean pages. No extra author’s block. Simply momentum. To make use of “Draft with Copilot in Phrase” a Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription is required.

  • New! ¹Click on to Do on Copilot+ PCs now helps actions by means of Microsoft Groups. When you choose an e mail tackle acknowledged by Click on to Do in your display, you’ll be able to select to ship a Groups message or schedule a Groups assembly. These choices make it simple to ask a query or arrange time to speak with out interrupting your workflow.

• [Settings]

  
  

  • New! ¹The new agent in Settings is a part of the Copilot+ PC expertise and is designed to handle some of the widespread frustrations: discovering and altering settings in your PC. You possibly can describe what you need assistance with, similar to “learn how to management my PC by voice” or “my mouse pointer is just too small,” and the agent will counsel steps to resolve the difficulty. The agent makes use of AI in your PC to know your request and, together with your permission, can automate and full duties for you. This expertise is rolling out to Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PCs, with help for AMD and Intel™-powered PCs coming quickly. It at present works provided that your major show language is ready to English.

  • New! On non-Copilot+ PCs, the Settings app now exhibits the Search field on the prime middle to make looking out simpler and extra constant.

  • Fastened: In case your PC is ready to ‘Do nothing’ whenever you shut the lid (below Settings > System > Energy and Battery) and the Settings window is left open whenever you shut the lid, reopening the lid may trigger the Settings window to cease responding. It would change into unresponsive to enter or resizing and as an alternative simply show your accent shade.

  • Fastened: Settings may cease responding whenever you attempt to save Wi-Fi community credentials.

• [Windows Resiliency Initiative] The next modifications are a part of the Home windows Resiliency Initiative introduced at Ignite 2024:

  
  

  • New! Fast machine restoration is now out there. When enabled, it robotically detects and fixes widespread points on Home windows 11 units utilizing the Home windows Restoration Atmosphere (WinRE). This reduces downtime and avoids the necessity for handbook fixes. If a tool experiences a widespread boot subject, it enters WinRE, connects to the web, and Microsoft can ship a focused repair by means of Home windows Replace. IT admins can allow or customise this expertise for his or her group by means of the Intune Settings Catalog UI utilizing the RemoteRemediationCSP. There may be additionally a devoted fast machine restoration settings web page out there below System > Restoration > Fast machine restoration. Immediately, it’s enabled by default for residence customers.

  • New! A extra streamlined interface seems throughout an surprising restart. This up to date design aligns with Home windows 11’s visible model and helps you come back to work sooner. The display shows a extra readable structure whereas conserving the technical particulars seen. This display seems with a black background.

• [Start menu] New!  We’re including a Boolean choice to the Configure Begin Pins coverage to permit admins to use Begin menu pins as soon as. Which means a person will obtain admin pins on day 0 however can then make any modifications to their Begin pinned structure and have these modifications safeguarded. These modifications might be optionally utilized by means of the present configuration Service Supplier (CSP).

• [Snap] New! Enhancements make it simpler to study and use Snap in Home windows 11. Inline messages now seem whenever you by chance open the Snap Bar by dragging an app to the higher middle of your desktop or open the Snap menu by hovering over the Reduce or Maximize button. These messages present useful recommendations on Snap app home windows and present keyboard shortcuts.

• [Windows Search] New! Home windows Search settings at the moment are simpler to search out. As an alternative of two separate pages for settings (“Search permissions” and “Looking out Home windows”), you could find all the pieces in a single place below Settings > Privateness & safety > Search. This new web page has a contemporary look and a greater structure, so you’ll be able to shortly view and handle all of your Home windows Search settings.

• [Input] New! The Gamepad structure of the Home windows contact keyboard now contains enhanced controller navigation and improved focus dealing with for baby keys, menus, phrase solutions, language switching, and settings. A brand new Gamepad keyboard, designed for gaming, additionally helps PIN sign-in on the Home windows lock display. It gives controller shortcuts for fast PIN entry and full navigation for many who desire to not use shortcuts.

• [File Explorer]

  
  

  • Fastened: For those who open Extra choices   in File Explorer to view the total checklist of folders for the present path, the dropdown menu won’t show utterly, making the underside half inaccessible.

  • Fastened: File operation progress dialogs may cease showing when displayed from apps.

  • Fastened: Syncing extra SharePoint websites to File Explorer may sluggish efficiency when navigating folders or opening the context menu. This may additionally have an effect on how shortly information launch.

• [Desktop icons] Fastened: In case you have an app pinned to your desktop and it updates, the app icon won’t show accurately and as an alternative present a white web page.

• [Notifications] Fastened: When you choose a Home windows notification, it won’t deliver the associated app to the foreground as anticipated—for instance, this could occur with Outlook notifications.

The excellent news is that some fixes can be found instantly with the KB5058502 replace, which embrace:

• [Authentication] Fastened: This replace addresses a difficulty that impacts the Native Safety Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS). LSASS may cease responding throughout machine password modifications with particular audit settings.

• [File Explorer] Fastened: File Explorer Dwelling may unexpectedly solely show a single folder (for instance, Desktop), somewhat than the anticipated content material with latest information and extra.

• [File system] Fastened: This replace addresses a difficulty within the Resilient File System (ReFS) the place utilizing backup functions on giant information may often lead to system reminiscence turning into totally exhausted.

• [Graphics] A difficulty the place exterior graphics playing cards linked by means of Thunderbolt weren’t at all times acknowledged in some instances.

• [Input (know issue)]

  
  

  • Fastened: A difficulty when utilizing the Microsoft Changjie IME (enter technique editor) for Conventional Chinese language may trigger issues similar to not with the ability to kind or choose phrases, unresponsive spacebar or clean key, incorrect phrase output, or a damaged candidate window show. This may happen after putting in KB5062553.

  • Fastened: This replace addresses a difficulty that impacts Phonetic enter strategies, together with the Hindi Phonetic Enter keyboard and the Marathi Phonetic keyboard, which could not work accurately after putting in KB5062553.

• [Stability issue] This replace addresses a difficulty noticed in uncommon instances after putting in the Could 2025 safety replace and subsequent updates inflicting units to expertise stability points. Some units turned unresponsive and stopped responding in particular eventualities.

• [Windows Firewall] Fastened: This replace addresses a difficulty present in Occasion Viewer as Occasion 2042 for Home windows Firewall with Superior Safety. The occasion seems as “Config Learn Failed” with the message “Extra knowledge is offered.” For extra details about this subject, see “Error occasions are logged for Home windows Firewall” within the Home windows Well being Dashboard.

Microsoft states that there aren’t any recognized points with this replace, which lastly resolves a bug that displayed incorrect Occasion 2042 errors for Home windows Firewall with Superior Safety in Occasion Viewer.

The complete launch notes for KB5062660 might be discovered on this help bulletin.

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