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​​Microsoft has launched the KB5064081 preview cumulative replace for Home windows 11 24H2, which incorporates thirty-six new options or modifications, with many progressively rolling out. These updates embrace new Recall options and a brand new manner of displaying CPU utilization in Activity Supervisor.

The KB5064081 replace is a part of the corporate’s elective non-security preview replace schedule, which releases updates on the finish of every month to check new fixes and options coming to the subsequent month’s  Patch Tuesday.

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

You’ll be able to set up the KB5064081 replace by opening Settings, clicking on Home windows Replace, after which “Test for Updates.”

As a result of that is an elective replace, you may be requested if you wish to set up it by clicking the “Obtain and set up” hyperlink until you will have the “Get the newest updates as quickly as they’re they’re obtainable” possibility enabled, which can trigger the replace to robotically set up.

You can even manually obtain and set up the KB5064081 preview replace from the Microsoft Replace Catalog.

Home windows 11 KB5064081 highlights

As soon as put in, this elective cumulative launch will replace Home windows 11 24H2 techniques to construct 26100.5074.

The August 2025 preview replace options quite a few new additions which can be progressively rolling out, together with an up to date methodology for displaying CPU workload metrics in Activity Supervisor.

For years, Home windows Activity Supervisor’s Processes tab displayed CPU utilization utilizing a “Processor Utility” metric, which might show complicated or incorrect outcomes.

The strategy ignored the variety of cores a processor had, so a single, maxed-out core on a 16-core CPU might present general utilization at 100%. It additionally in contrast workload in opposition to the chip’s base clock pace reasonably than its precise working frequency, so when turbo increase pushed cores above their common pace, utilization might spike past 100% after which get clipped within the show.

These quirks meant the numbers proven within the Processes tab often didn’t match what was displayed within the Efficiency or Customers tabs, or inside third-party monitoring instruments.

In response to WindowsLatest, Microsoft has now standardized CPU reporting all through Activity Supervisor, with the Processes tab now utilizing the identical system already used within the Efficiency and Customers tabs.

The brand new CPU load is calculated as:

(Δ Course of CPU Time) ÷ (Δ Elapsed Time × Logical Processors)

This up to date CPU utilization system is now rolling out with this replace.

For customers preferring the legacy view, Microsoft has added an elective “CPU Utility” column within the Particulars tab. Nevertheless, by default, Activity Supervisor will now present constant CPU metrics throughout the complete software.

The entire checklist of modifications which can be progressively rolling out contains:

• [Recall] New! Recall opens to a customized homepage that places your current exercise and top-used apps and web sites entrance and middle, making it simple to choose up the place you left off. After turning on snapshot assortment, the homepage highlights key productiveness options like Current Snapshots, which present the newest snapshots that will help you rapidly resume duties, and High Apps and Web sites, which show the three apps and web sites you’ve used most prior to now 24 hours. You’ll be able to set filters in Settings to regulate which apps and web sites are saved in snapshots. A brand new navigation bar on the leftmost facet of the display supplies fast entry to Residence, Timeline, Suggestions, and Settings.

• [Click to Do] New! If you launch Click on to Do for the primary time, you will see a fast interactive tutorial. It reveals full duties quicker by demonstrating actions on each textual content and pictures—corresponding to summarizing giant blocks of textual content or eradicating picture backgrounds. To revisit the tutorial later, choose Extra choices  > Begin tutorial.

• [General] New! When an app requests entry to location, digital camera, microphone, or different gadget capabilities, Home windows reveals a redesigned system dialog field. To emphasise the privateness immediate, the display dims barely, and the immediate seems on the middle of the display.

• [Taskbar] 

  
  

  • New! The bigger clock with seconds is now again within the notification middle, displayed above the date and calendar. To show this feature on, go to Settings > Time & language > Date & time, and activate Present time within the Notification Middle.

  • Mounted: In case you by accident click on and drag your mouse throughout the taskbar preview thumbnail, the preview would possibly cease working.

• [Search on the Taskbar]

  
  

  • New! If you use Search from the Home windows taskbar, a brand new grid view will assist you to extra rapidly and precisely establish the specified picture inside your search.

  • New! Search on the taskbar now supplies clearer standing data. In case your search outcomes are incomplete whereas your PC is organizing recordsdata within the background, Home windows reveals a discover with a hyperlink to test progress. You’ll be able to dismiss the discover once you’re executed. There may be additionally a standing for recordsdata and folders, so you possibly can simply inform whether or not they’re obtainable on-line (cloud) or saved in your gadget.

• [Lock screen] New! Extra widget choices and assist for lock display widget personalization (beforehand known as “Climate and extra”) are rolling out. After preliminary launch with Home windows Insiders within the European Financial Space (EEA), these updates are increasing to all areas. You’ll be able to add, take away, and rearrange lock display widgets corresponding to Climate, Watchlist, Sports activities, Site visitors, and extra. Any widget that helps the small sizing possibility might be added. To customise your lock display widgets, go to Settings > Personalization > Lock display.

• [File Explorer] ​​​​​​​

  
  

  • New! Dividers now separate top-level icons within the File Explorer context menu.

  • New!​​​​​​​ If you’re signed in with a piece or college account (Entra ID), File Explorer will show individuals icons within the Exercise column and the Really helpful part on the prime of File Explorer Residence. Hover over or choose an individual’s icon to open their Microsoft 365 Reside Persona Card, which reveals who they’re and the way they’re linked to the file.

  • Mounted: In case you attempt to use the unblock open in Properties for a file, it nonetheless reveals as blocked once you open Properties the subsequent time.

• [Windows Hello]

  
  

  • New!​​​​​​​ As a part of the enhanced passkey options launched in September 2023, you’ll see a redesigned Home windows Hey interface. These modernized visible updates assist quick, clear communication that seem throughout a number of authentication flows, together with the Home windows sign-in display, passkey, Recall, the Microsoft Retailer, and extra.

     The Home windows safety credential expertise for passkey presents a cleaner, extra intuitive interface designed to assist quick, safe sign-in. Now you can simply change between authentication choices corresponding to passkeys or linked units.

  • Mounted: Home windows Hey would possibly acknowledge your face on the login display, nonetheless it could nonetheless fail after which immediate you to enter your pin. In case you proceed experiencing points, you would possibly have to go to the Facial Recognition part underneath Settings > Accounts >Signal-in choices and choose Enhance recognition.

  • Improved: Fingerprint login after standby is now extra strong.

• [Settings] 

  
  

  • New!  Home windows activation and expiration prompts match the Home windows 11 design and seem as system notifications when motion is required. There even have been enhancements to messaging underneath Settings > System > Activation.

  • New! You’ll be able to go to Settings > Privateness & safety > Textual content and Picture Technology to see which third-party apps have not too long ago used generative AI fashions offered by Home windows. You can even select which apps are permitted to make use of them—placing you in control of your gadget’s AI expertise.

  • New! As a part of the Copilot+ PC expertise, the agent in Settings helps you rapidly discover and alter settings. Initially obtainable on Snapdragon®-powered Copilot+ PCs, agent in Settings now helps AMD- and Intel™-powered Copilot+ PCs. It at present works solely when your main show language is ready to English.

  • Mounted: Settings would possibly crash if you happen to try so as to add a safety key underneath Settings > Account > Signal-in choices.

• [Task Manager] New! Activity Supervisor now makes use of customary metrics to indicate CPU workload constantly throughout all pages, aligning with business requirements and third-party instruments. In case you favor the earlier view, you possibly can allow a brand new elective column known as CPU Utility within the Particulars tab to show the sooner CPU utilization worth proven on the Processes web page.

• [Widgets]

  
  

  • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​New! A number of dashboards at the moment are obtainable in your Widgets Board. This offers you extra space to your favourite widgets and helps you keep knowledgeable with a feed that connects you to present occasions. A brand new navigation bar on the left facet makes it simple to change between your widget’s dashboard and different views just like the Uncover feed. After preliminary launch within the EEA, these updates are increasing to all areas.

  • New!  A brand new visible expertise is on the market for the Uncover feed on the Widgets Board. The structure is extra organized, customized, and interesting. Copilot-curated tales at the moment are included, providing a well-rounded view of every matter with summaries, movies, and pictures from trusted MSN premium publishers. To customise your feed, go to Widgets > Uncover dashboard > Personalization settings.

• [Windows Backup for Organizations] New!​​​​​​​ Home windows Backup for Organizations is now usually obtainable! Expertise seamless gadget transitions with enterprise-grade backup and restore. Whether or not you are refreshing your group’s units, upgrading to Home windows 11, or deploying AI-powered PCs, this answer helps maintain productiveness with minimal disruption, guaranteeing enterprise continuity and organizational resilience.

• [PowerShell 2.0] Beginning in August 2025, Home windows 11, model 24H2, will not embrace Home windows PowerShell 2.0. This legacy part was launched in Home windows 7 and formally deprecated in 2017. Most customers received’t be affected, as newer variations corresponding to PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell 7.x stay obtainable and supported. In case you use older scripts or instruments that rely upon PowerShell 2.0, replace them to keep away from compatibility points.

• [Live captions] Mounted: Altering the opacity of dwell captions in Settings > Accessibility > Captions > Caption Fashion, has no impact.

• [Input]  

  
  

  • Mounted: Trying to kind Chinese language with an IME after copying one thing with CTRL + C may end up in the primary character not displaying.

  • Mounted: An underlying subject associated to textinputframework.dll might end in sure apps like Sticky Notes and Notepad crashing.

• [dbgcore.dll] Mounted: An underlying subject with dbgcore.dll might end in sure apps, together with explorer.exe, crashing.

• [Kerberos]​​​​​​​ Mounted: There would possibly be an underlying crash in Kerberos when trying to entry a cloud file share.

• [Login] Improved: Addressed some underlying circumstances which might result in you seeing a clean white display, or a display saying, “only a second”, for a couple of minutes when logging into your PC.

• [Miracast] Mounted: A difficulty the place, on sure units, audio would initially play however cease a couple of seconds after casting to a TV.

• [Audio] Improved: Addressed an underlying audio service stops responding which might influence the flexibility to play audio in sure circumstances.

The excellent news is that some fixes or enhancements within the KB5058502 replace can be found instantly:

• [Device management] Mounted: This replace addresses a difficulty that prevented some system restoration options from working correctly on account of a brief file sharing battle. This affected sure gadget administration instruments and disrupted key capabilities on some units.

• [File system]​​​​​​​ Mounted: A difficulty in Resilient File System (ReFS) the place utilizing backup apps with giant recordsdata might generally exhaust system reminiscence.

• [Input]  

  
  

  • Mounted: This replace addresses a difficulty with the Chinese language (Simplified) Enter Technique Editor (IME) the place some prolonged characters seem as empty packing containers.

  • [Fixed This update addresses an issue that prevents typing on the touch keyboard when using the Microsoft Changjie, Microsoft Bopomofo, or Microsoft Japanese Input Method Editors (IMEs). The issue occurs after switching to a previous version of the IME.

• [Performance] Mounted: This replace addresses a difficulty that slows software set up on ARM64 units. Some installers would possibly take longer to finish.

Microsoft experiences two identified points with this launch: a bug that causes incorrect CertificateServicesClient (CertEnroll) errors to seem, and lag/stuttering in audio and video efficiency when utilizing Community Machine Interface (NDI) to stream or switch feeds between PCs.

The corporate is now rolling out a repair for the CertificateServicesClient (CertEnroll) errors , however it’s progressively rolling out over the subsequent 4 weeks. 

The total launch notes for KB5064081 might be discovered on this assist bulletin.

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