Microsoft has launched the non-compulsory KB5044380 Preview cumulative replace for Home windows 11 23H2 and 22H2, which brings seventeen adjustments, together with a brand new Gamepad keyboard and the flexibility to remap the Copilot keyboard key.
The KB5044380 cumulative replace preview is a part of Microsoft’s non-compulsory non-security preview updates schedule, launched on the fourth week of each month.
This replace permits Home windows admins to check upcoming fixes and options that will likely be launched in subsequent month’s November Patch Tuesday. Nonetheless, not like Patch Tuesday cumulative updates, these preview updates don’t embrace safety updates.
Home windows customers can set up this replace by going into Settings, clicking on Home windows Replace, and manually performing a ‘Examine for Updates.’
As that is an non-compulsory replace, you can be requested whether or not you want to set up it by clicking the ‘Obtain and set up’ hyperlink, as proven within the picture under.
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After putting in this replace, Home windows 11 23H2 will likely be upgraded to construct 22631.4391, and 22H2 will likely be 22621.4391.
Home windows 11 customers may also manually obtain and set up the KB5044380 preview replace from the Microsoft Replace Catalog.
New options within the KB5044380 replace
With the discharge of the KB5044380 replace, Microsoft has launched a complete of seventeen fixes, adjustments, and new options to Home windows 11.
These new options embrace a brand new GamePad keyboard and a neater option to silent utility notifications.
The replace will introduce 5 new highlighted adjustments which might be out there instantly, listed under:
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[Copilot key settings] New! You may configure the Copilot key on the keyboard. On new units, the important thing opens the Copilot app. When you register to your account utilizing a Microsoft Entra ID, the important thing opens the M365 app. You may make the important thing open a unique app or open Search. To do that, go to Settings > Personalization > Textual content enter. To make the important thing open a unique app, the app have to be in a signed MSIX bundle. This ensures that the app meets safety and privateness requirements to maintain you protected. In case your PC’s keyboard doesn’t have a Copilot key, altering this setting will do nothing.
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[Battery use] Fastened: A tool makes use of an excessive amount of battery energy whereas the machine is in Fashionable Standby.
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[Microsoft Teams] Fastened: The problem stops you from becoming a member of Groups conferences when you choose an Outlook assembly reminder.
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[Product activation phone numbers] Fastened: This provides new telephone numbers for a number of areas.
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[Multi-Function Printer (MFP)] Fastened: If you use a USB cable to hook up with it, it prints particular community command textual content once you do need it to.
There are additionally extra highlighted options which might be slowly being rolled out and won’t be instantly out there after putting in this replace:
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[Gamepad keyboard]New! This replace begins the roll out of a brand new Gamepad keyboard format for the on-screen keyboard. With it, you need to use your Xbox controller to maneuver across the display screen and sort. Button accelerators are additionally out there; these embrace the X button for backspace and the Y button for the spacebar. For higher motion patterns, the keyboard keys are aligned vertically.
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[Notifications] New! Now you can cease the options to show off notifications from sure apps. Choose the ellipses (…) within the notification and switch it off. You may as well go to Settings > System > Notifications and switch it off from there. Search for “Notification Recommendations” within the senders listing. An entry will solely seem within the listing after you obtain a notification.
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[Start menu] New! “All apps” has the brand new identify, “All.”
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[Narrator]
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New! This replace provides a brand new Narrator shortcut. Press the Narrator key + Ctrl + X to repeat what Narrator final spoke to the clipboard. This shortcut is beneficial once you need to shortly copy some content material, like codes or numbers to be used.
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New! It would now auto learn the contents of an e mail message within the new Outlook. That is just like the conduct in Outlook basic.
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Microsoft says that there are not any identified points with this replace.
A whole listing of fixes may be discovered within the KB5044380 help bulletin.
For these operating Home windows 11 24H2, you’ll have to wait a bit bit as its preview replace has not been launched but.