📢 Windows 11 Build 25272 - What’s new and improved?

What’s new and improved in Windows 11 Build 25272?

Microsoft moved Quick Assist out of Windows Tools in Windows 11 Build 25272 to make it easier to find and display immediately in the Start menu's "All apps" section.

Additionally, Microsoft has eliminated the actions that showed recommended popular websites in the Recommended part of Start and suggested searches for copied text in Microsoft Edge. The business claims that anything in the Dev Channel may be withdrawn without prior notice and that the adjustments were made in response to feedback from Windows Insiders.

The inbox variant of Windows Subsystem for Linux has been discontinued as of Build 25267. If you use WSL, you must update to the most recent WSL version before installing a build with this change. Once you've finished, WSL will proceed with the following build upgrades.

Other fixes in Windows 11 Build 25272

[General]

• Fixed an issue where some Arm64 devices experienced a black screen while resuming from sleep or hibernate.
• Fixed an issue causing various UI elements in apps to disappear and reappear sometimes in recent builds.

[Search on the Taskbar]

The fixes only apply for Windows Insiders who received one of the different treatments for how search looks on the taskbar that began rolling out to Insiders with Build 25252:

• We fixed the issue causing the search box on taskbar to not render correctly and display visual artifacts.
• Japanese IME candidate items should display correctly now inside the search box on the taskbar.

[Task Manager]

• Fixed an issue causing filtering by publisher name to not match correctly on the Processes page.
• Fixed an issue causing some services to not show in the Services page after filtering is applied.
• Fixed an issue which resulted in new processes appearing in a filtered list if launched while a filter is set.
• Fixed an issue where Task Manager did not display light and dark content correctly, rendering potentially unreadable text.
• Fixed an issue causing the Startup apps page in Task manager to not list any apps for some Insiders.
• If there are no matching search results, Task Manager will now explicitly say that.
• Fixed a Task Manager crash that could happen when attempting to end certain processes.
• You can now set focus to the search box by pressing CTRL + F.

[Narrator]

• Fixed an issue that was causing Settings to crash after turning Narrator on or off in Lithuanian and Hungarian builds.
• Narrator should now be working correctly with Windows Defender Application Guard for Edge.

[Live Captions]

• We fixed the issue that was causing Live Captions to not work in the latest Insider Preview builds in the Dev Channel.

[Input]

• When using the Japanese IME with Narrator, Narrator will no longer read out the entire composition string each time you press a key.
• The message displayed the first time you use ALT + Shift should no longer display if you only have one input language installed.
• Fixed an issue where the Surface Pen could no longer advance PowerPoint slides in recent builds.
• Made a change to help improve performance when using a high report rate mouse while gaming.
• Fixed an issue where if you used the touch gesture for opening the Start menu, it could get stuck halfway.
• Fixed an issue which could cause Excel to stop responding on certain mouse drag events when using the Japanese or Chinese IMEs.

[Settings]

• Fixed an issue which could cause a hang if you cancelled out of certification authentication when connecting to VPN.
• Fixed an issue which was causing Settings to crash when opening Power and Battery sometimes.
• Fixed an issue causing Quick Settings crashes sometimes when navigating to the Bluetooth section.
• Fixed an issue where the app icons under Settings > Apps > Default apps might be blurry.

[Windowing]

• Fixed an issue causing a black screen when ALT + Tabbing out of certain games in recent builds.
• The maximize button should no longer be slightly smaller than the close and minimize buttons when you highlight it in File Explorer and certain other apps while using dark mode.
• Fixed a couple DWM crashes that were introduced in recent builds.

[Other]

• Fixed an issue which was causing some Windows Security app crashes.
• Fixed an issue where the print queue was showing stale job information for printer connection printers.
• Fixed an issue where when creating a FIDO2 credential for a website in a browser, you might see the dialog twice in a row in certain cases.
• This build contains the fix for an issue impacting Windows Hello on certain PCs. We are continuing to investigate an issue specific to Arm64 PCs (see known issues).
• Fixed an issue which could lead to the Camera app showing that something went wrong if you pressed Pause while recording video.

NOTE: Some fixes noted here in Insider Preview builds from the Dev Channel may make their way into the servicing updates for the released version of Windows 11.