The Windows 10 October 2018 Update was a real mess for Microsoft, not to mention for those users who installed it and lost their data. That feature update is back with Windows Insiders for further testing, and it likely won’t be long until it’s re-released.
The Windows 10 October 2018 Update was a real mess for Microsoft, not to mention for those users who installed it and lost their data. That feature update is back with Windows Insiders for further testing, and it likely won’t be long until it’s re-released.
In the meantime, Microsoft is busy working on the next feature update, due out next Spring (the Spring 2019 Update, perhaps?), and today the software giant releases a new build to Insiders on the Fast and Skip Ahead rings.
Build 18262 (19H1) gains an additional column in the Details tab of Task Manager that will show you which of your running apps is DPI Aware — that is, which apps tell Windows how they handle DPI scaling.
To show the column, right-click on any of the headers in the Details tab, click Select Columns, then add DPI Awareness to the list.
You can see what it looks like below.
From this build can now uninstall additional preinstalled Windows 10 inbox apps via the context menu on the Start menu All Apps list. The apps that can be removed in this way are:
Troubleshooting has been improved in Build 18262 too. Windows will use diagnostic data to deliver a tailored set of fixes matching problems detected on your device and automatically apply them to your PC. Go to Settings > Update & Security > Troubleshoot in Build 18262 for this.
Also, in this build, Narrator can now read next, current and previous sentences.
General changes, improvements, and fixes in this build include:
Known issues in this build include:
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