Microsoft Win11 Preview 22593 fixes content and complete list of known issues

IT House April 7 news, Microsoft today released the latest Windows 11 preview build 22593. For Dev and Beta channels. Bring some feature improvements, bug fixes, and more.

Microsoft Win11 Dev / Beta Preview 22593 Released: Desktop watermark does not affect the device, File Explorer added "Home" (with updates)"

Here are the highlights:

Microsoft receives a lot of feedback on desktop watermarks from Windows Insiders in beta channels. After updating to the latest preview version, it is normal to see this watermark on the user's desktop. It does not change the license of the user's device. Note, however, that these are preview versions that do expire, so it's important for users to stay updated with the latest version released by Microsoft.

This release includes only a few changes and improvements, but includes a good set of fixes that will improve the overall experience of the beta personnel on their devices.

Microsoft has also added some new known issues.

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Fixed several issues in recent releases that affected the reliability of explorer .exe.

[Taskbar]

Fixed an issue where when launching a new app, the app's icon would unexpectedly enter the animation from the top left.

Improved performance for rearranging taskbar icons.

Addresses an issue in previous releases that caused duplicate application icons to appear after closing and reopening an application.

If you have a lot of apps open, the icon no longer overlaps with the date and time on the secondary display.

When you type a search on a full-screen window, the taskbar will no longer disappear.

Fixed an issue that caused icon spacing to be reversed, which should get larger when switching to and exiting the tablet-optimized taskbar and vice versa.

The tablet-optimized taskbar now remains visible on full-screen apps when expanded and is only hidden when collapsed.

If the current language has multiple keyboards, the input indicator will now display only one line of text when the tablet-optimized taskbar is collapsed so that it is not clipped.

Fixed a crash that caused the taskbar to get stuck in the tablet-optimized taskbar view.

Settings now remember the taskbar's auto-hide setting more consistently.

Alleviates an issue where some app icons in a system tray are expected to blink but do not work that way.

Fixed an issue that caused the system tray icon to get stuck even after closing the app.

Fixed an issue where some mouse movement events were not passed to the app for icons in the system tray.

Addresses an issue that caused notification hub startup reliability to degrade in recent releases.

Mitigated an issue that caused Notification Hubs and their context to sometimes display incorrect color text of the system theme, making it unreadable.

Updated the names of some months in the lunar calendar Chinese Simplified and Chinese Traditional to make them more accurate.

[Start Menu]

Updated the design of the folder in the Start menu to make it a little larger and easier to see the app icon highlighted in the folder without having to open it.

Fixed an issue where if the folder created in Start was in the same location as the deleted folder, it would display the old name.

If you name a folder in Start with the keyboard, you can now exit with a label instead of pressing Esc.

Fixed an issue where when using the keyboard to select an option, it did not work after WIN +X. Eliminating WIN+X is now more consistent.

Fixed an issue where when starting Windows Terminal as an administrator from the start right-click menu (WIN +X), the prompt did not appear earlier.

When you close the Start menu, the search icon in the taskbar no longer blinks unexpectedly.

[Search]

Some improvements have been made to help users with very many indexed items resolve search indexer threading and memory usage issues.

Fixed an issue that affected search reliability in recent releases (entering information in the search window or Start, but nothing happened).

Another fix to help fix an issue where a search popup may get stuck in a transparent area of the screen.

[File Explorer]

Improves the performance of loading home pages in File Explorer.

Fixed a scaling issue where the size of a context menu could be unexpected when invoked on a system with a hybrid DPI display.

Addresses an issue where the Show more options entry in a context menu does not work for items in the Navigation Pane of File Explorer (for example, right-clicking on this PC).

Some work has been done to help reduce the chance of seeing an app project "loading" in the context menu.

Fixed an issue where the context menu option of Open in Windows Terminal was unexpectedly lost for secondary users in some cases.

The open suggestion results that are displayed when you enter a search term in the search box in File Explorer should now work as expected.

Mitigates a potential issue that makes the address bar inaccessible in some cases.

Mitigated an issue that caused increased startup time for some file types in previous releases.

[Widget]

Fixed an issue where, when pinned from a feed stream, pinned widgets were placed on top instead of under other pinned gadgets.

Fixed an issue where after rearranging widgets in the widget panel, some users experienced incorrect rendering of a fixed part of the widget.

[Input]

Fixed an issue where after a recent version of explorer.exe crashed, several input UI surfaces would not display, including emoji panels, candidate windows, clipboard history, and touch keyboard.

Alleviates an issue where Narrator is silent when launching an emoji panel in some cases, such as not displaying the search box.

Fixed an issue that caused custom theme changes in settings > Personalization > text input to sometimes not be saved correctly.

Addresses some color issues with the touch keyboard, including a possible mix of dark and light colors on the touch keyboard after changing the mode from dark to light.

Updated the touch keyboard button to always show the touch keyboard instead of hiding it when it is visible.

When using Chinese (Traditional), revert the backspace key to the small layout of the touch keyboard.

Improved reliability for launching the touch keyboard on the login screen.

You should now be able to use the context menu of the Japanese IME on the login screen to change the conversion mode.

Fixed an issue where Chinese (Traditional) IME only showed 5 suggested related phrases, which should be displayed as 9.

Fixed an issue where if you set a custom background image under Personalization > Text Input > Settings, the preview would not show what it would look like in the Chinese (Simplified) Candidate Window.

Addresses an issue with the rendering of the corners of the IME toolbar.

Fixed an issue where the IME toolbar was not properly hidden and displayed when using previous versions of the Japanese IME.

Improved reliability of voice input.

Updated the voice typing error message "Voice typing is limited on this app" to "Some voice typing features may not work on this app", so basic voice typing can still work.

Fixed an issue that caused some voice input commands to not work, such as "scrape it" for Chinese (Simplified).

Addresses an issue in recent releases where the "Disable touch when using pen" settings under Settings > Bluetooth and Devices > Pens and Windows Ink sometimes did not take effect at first startup.

Fixed an issue that caused Get-InstalledLanguage and Install-Language PowerShell commands to fail unexpectedly in some languages with the error 0x8007023E.

[Settings]

If the keyboard is focused on a chevron pattern of collapsible areas on the settings page, such as the snapshot window section under System > Multitasking, you can now use the left and right arrows to expand and collapse the area.

Fixed an issue that affected the reliability of system > power and battery.

When using a custom color picker on a personalized > color now, it should appear in the center of the window frame instead of randomly biased to one side.

Setting the fit of the background image to Fit under Personalization > Background no longer causes the background image preview to become a solid color.

Addresses an issue that could cause Windows Spotlight to unexpectedly stop updating for an extended period of time.

Fixed an issue that caused the settings app to crash when entering a focused setting.

Fixed an issue where the keyboard focus went to elements in the contrast theme preview in accessibility > contrast themes, but users couldn't interact with them.

Fixed an issue where navigating away from the contrast theme editor in the settings by selecting breadcrumbs would clear the drop-down selection, but the button would still operate as if a theme was selected.

Updated the text description of speech typing under accessibility > Speech to make it more meaningful when displaying the language in Japanese.

Addresses an issue that prevents Quick Setup from starting with its new touch gestures.

Quick Settings will now display the correct icon again to represent the user's audio output device.

[Windowing]

Mitigated an issue that could cause explorer .exe to crash when using ALT+ Tab.

Fixed an issue where the keyboard focus outline of an ALT+Tab was sometimes smaller than the thumbnail displayed.

Addresses a potential DWM issue that causes a crash when using touch gestures from both sides of the screen.

Fixed an issue where DWM crashed when rotating the screen.

Mitigated some lag issues caused by adjusting the size of two apps side-by-side in some cases.

Fixed an issue where snapshot assist could be unexpectedly eliminated if the initial window did not fit the size of the selected area. The initial fetch window is now resized accordingly when the minimum window size of the initial fetch window is larger than the selected area.

If you invoke the task view with touch, the Close button no longer overlaps with the window title.

Hovering over a tooltip with the desktop name will no longer accidentally cause the desktop to pop out.

Use drag and drop to rearrange your desktop with desktop pop-ups, and you'll no longer leave thumbnails of the desktop you moved on the screen.

[Voice Access]

Fixed a crash that affected the reliability of voice access.

Addresses an issue that prevents speech models from being downloaded correctly for speech access.

[Real-time subtitles]

Addresses a potential issue that caused live captions to display download errors, even though the download actually completed successfully.

Live captions now remember the selected cross-time slot settings.

Alleviates an issue where the position of the live caption changes to floating when entering full screen, but the last location is still incorrectly displayed in the settings.

Removed the real-time subtitle notification about playing audio from multiple apps because it pops up repeatedly during use.

The borders of the live caption window will now match the style of all other borders in the Contrast theme.

[Narrator]

Fixed an issue that caused sporadic interruptions in natural speech in recent releases.

Narrator now reads the word minute with the duration of the focus options listed in settings.

Fixed an issue that caused Narrator to incorrectly read the conversation button in scan mode.

[Task Manager]

Removed the backplane (colored square) where the UWP app icon appears in Task Manager.

Alleviates the problem that there doesn't seem to be any action on one side of the view button.

Fixed an issue that caused the real-time update speed to be set to pause on its own. Note that if this affects, after upgrading to this version, users will need to make one-time modifications to restore the settings to their preferred update speed.

[Other]

Mitigated an issue that caused a black screen (although interactive) to appear when playing some full-screen games with auto HDR enabled.

Fixed a memory leak issue in the Connected Device Platform User Service.

When using the hardware keys, the resulting volume and brightness pop-ups will no longer show the outline of the focus window on them.

If you press WIN +Alt+K while a supported application is not running, the pop-up text that appears now says "No supported application is using microphone mute" instead of "Microphone mute not available", which is now expressed more clearly.

Addresses an issue that causes an unexpected error to appear in Event Viewer when a conhost .exe is activated.

Known issues

Microsoft will not provide a new build version of Windows Insiders on Lenovo PCs in the Chinese market this time.

Windows Insiders running Windows 10 who join the Dev or Beta channel to get the latest version may encounter download error code 0xc8000402 when trying to download the latest version. As a workaround, join the Release Preview Channel, install Windows 11 (Build 22000.xxxx) from there, and then switch to the Dev or Beta channel to receive the latest insider preview. Microsoft is aware of this issue and will fix it in an upcoming release.

Microsoft is investigating reports that some insiders have encountered explorer .exe repeated loop crashes in the latest builds and fail to load successfully. This release includes a mitigation that may help some insiders who encounter this condition.

When you open the Group Policy Editor, an Administrative Template error pops up. Click "Ok" to eliminate and continue using the Group Policy Editor normally.

Devices that use Windows Information Protection (formerly EDP) policies will not be able to access controlled data on this version through protected applications such as Outlook, Word, Microsoft Edge, and so on. Users are advised to pause updates under Settings > Windows Update until a new Insider Preview version is released, with fixes. If the user already has Build 22593 installed, they can roll back to a previous version to restore expected data access.

Launch an app or tap outside the expanded taskbar on a 2-in-1 device, and the taskbar doesn't always collapse automatically.

Some areas of the operating system do not yet track the height of the expanded taskbar on the 2-in-1 device, so you may see overlapping components.

Microsoft is fixing an issue where some application icons hovering over the system tray do not show previews or tooltips.

Microsoft is fixing issues with icon size, visual errors, and text clipping in pop-ups that show OneDrive storage.

Renaming a file using the right-click option in the file manager causes explorer .exe crash. As a workaround, click Highlight file and use the Rename button in the File Explorer command bar to complete the rename process.

When you use gestures from the side of the screen, the widget panel may not open successfully. If it's affected, temporarily tap the widget icon in the taskbar instead.

[Network]

Microsoft is investigating reports of network connectivity issues when connecting to certain virtual private networks in previous releases.

Some full-screen applications, such as video players, can't see live subtitles.

Some applications located near the top of the screen, which are closed before running live captions, will be restarted behind the live captions window located at the top. When the application has focus, use the System menu (ALT + Spacebar) to move the application's window further down.

When the live caption is at the top, the topmost of the maximized application (for example, the window management button of the title bar) cannot be touched.