Fixes arrive for Taskbar, Start, Windows Sandbox, and WSL. It’s a big update before the October 5 Windows 11 release, but bugs remain.
With just over one week left before Microsoft releases Windows 11, the company has provided a new and very important build to testers on the Windows Insider Dev Channel that addresses several major problems with the new OS. The fixes come in the Windows 11 Insider preview build number 22463 to the Dev Channel, the bleeding-edge branch of Windows 11 that includes features not necessarily included in the version of Windows 11 set to be released on October 5. But Microsoft will want to ensure that bug fixes do make it to the October 5 release. That makes this Dev Channel build a very important one from Microsoft, and includes a ton of fixes that address major problems with Windows 11. SEE: Can your PC upgrade to Windows 11? This Microsoft app could help you find out Over the past few weeks, Microsoft has been working on fixes for core user interface elements of the visually revamped Windows 11, such as the Taskbar, which has been beset by multiple problems that remained unfixed in recent updates for the safer Beta channel releases. There are five distinct fixes to the Taskbar in Windows 11, including that app icons in the space are now « properly aligned and centered again », meaning that they shouldn’t be truncated by the « show hidden icons » button when too many apps are open. Microsoft has now properly center-aligned the notification count badge for notification center and fixed another issue with the Chat flyout. It has also improved explorer.exe reliability when Taskbar is used across several monitors and now ensures Taskbar previews conform to Accessibility text size settings. Equally important fixes have arrived for Start on Windows 11, which now appears again as it should after right-clicking on the Start button or using the keyboard shortcut WIN + X.
