The latest Dev and Beta builds continue Microsoft's rather slow process of migrating stuff from the old Control Panel to the Settings app. Recently, developers moved popular mouse settings, and now, it is time for keyboard settings to have a modern overhaul.

@Phantomofearh on X discovered that recent Windows 11 preview builds let you customize keyboard accessibility options within the settings app. Features in question are character repeat delay (how long one should hold a key to begin repeated input) and character repeat rate (how fast it goes). You can customize these options with sliders and then try them in a special input box.

For now, it seems that the Cursor blink rate (how fast the text cursor blinks) is not available in the Settings app, which might be why Microsoft has not announced and shipped these changes yet.

The new sliders are currently hidden by default. Once enabled, you can find them in Settings > Accessibility > Keyboard > Keyboard character repeat delay and repeat rate. For reference, in the stable Windows 11 versions (and older releases), these settings are located in Control Panel > Keyboard > Speed.

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Dynamic updates bring improvements to the Windows Recovery in the form of Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) updates, also called Safe OS updates, as well as to the Setup binaries in the form of Setup updates.

First up, we have the dynamic updates for Windows 11 24H2 and Windows Server 2025:

KB5055643: Setup Dynamic Update for Windows 11, version 24H2 and Windows Server 2025: April 25, 2025

 

Summary

 

This update makes improvements to Windows setup binaries or any files that setup uses for feature updates in Windows 11, version 24H2 and Windows Server 2025.

 

...

 

KB5057781: Safe OS Dynamic Update for Windows 11, version 24H2 and Server 2025: April 25, 2025

 

Summary

 

This update makes improvements to the Windows recovery environment in Windows 11, version 24H2 and Windows Server 2025. This update resolves the following issue:

 

[WinRE start] Fixed: This update resolves an issue affecting a small number of Copilot+ PCs with ARM64 architecture and the Secure Launch feature enabled. These devices may experience difficulties executing a Push-Button Reset (PBR) or In-Place Upgrades after installing the April 2025 security update (KB5055523). When these devices attempt to start the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE), they encounter an error that prevents the process from proceeding.

Up next, we have the dynamic updates for Windows 11 22H2 and 23H2:

KB5059281: Safe OS Dynamic Update for Windows 11, version 22H2 and 23H2: April 22, 2025

 

Summary

 

This update makes improvements to the Windows recovery environment in Windows 11, version 22H2 and Windows 11, version 23H2.

For those who may not be aware, these Dynamic Update packages are meant to be applied to existing Windows images prior to their deployment. In a Tech Community blog post about Windows 10 Dynamic Updates, Microsoft explained Dynamic Updates in more detail regarding its various components and uses. These packages include fixes to Setup.exe binaries, SafeOS updates for Windows Recovery Environment, and more:

As soon as a Windows 10 feature update initiates, whether from media or a Windows Update service-connected environment, Dynamic Update is one of the first steps invoked. Windows 10 Setup reaches out to an Internet-facing URL hosted by Microsoft to fetch Dynamic Update content, then applies those updates to your OS installation media.

 

Content acquired includes:

 

• Setup Updates: Fixes to Setup binaries or any files that Setup uses for feature updates.
• Safe OS Updates: Fixes for the "safe OS" that are used to update Windows recovery environment (WinRE).

 

In addition to these updates, Dynamic Update will preserve Language Pack (LP) and Features on Demand (FODs) content during the upgrade process. These are not updates to LPs and FODs, but reacquisition to ensure the user has these elements present with the update completes.

The Setup update is available for manual downloading only from the Windows Update Catalog website. You can find it here: KB5055643. You can also avail of the WinRE updates manually there at KB5057781/ KB5059281, if they are delivered automatically via the Windows Update channel.

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Microsoft writes:

KB5059093: Out of Box Experience update for Windows 11, version 24H2 and Windows Server 2025: April 25, 2025

 

Summary

 

This update improves the Windows 11, version 24H2 and Windows Server 2025 out-of-box experience (OOBE). This update applies only to the Windows OOBE process and is available only when OOBE updates are installed.

These OOBE updates will install automatically during setup if the user has an active internet connection.

In a separate document about OOBE, Microsoft explained what these OOBE updates deliver. It also notes that the downloading and installation time of the update depends on the users' hardware and internet connectivity. It writes:

Critical driver updates, and critical Windows zero-day patch (ZDP) updates, will begin downloading automatically during OOBE after the user has connected to a network. The user can't opt-out of these critical updates as they are required for the device to operate properly. Windows will alert the user that the device is checking for, and applying, the updates.

 

If a newer version of Windows is available than the version that shipped with the device, depending on OS Build, a user may receive latest Windows Updates as one of the last sections of the OOBE. The Windows update will be downloaded and installed during the OOBE.

You can find the support article for KB5059093 here on Microsoft's official website.

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Chrome could eventually be up for sale, if the US Department of Justice gets its way in the remedies trial for US v. Google. And there are already buyers lining up at Google’s door.

Any potential sale might not happen for a very long time. The remedies trial is still ongoing, a decision in that trial isn’t expected for quite awhile, and Google has already said it will appeal, which will definitely add more time to the process and could ultimately reverse a ruling where Google might have been forced to sell the browser.

But let’s say that Google does have to sell Chrome — who wants it? And why? We’re getting some of those answers from the remedies trial.

Let’s start with the why: a browser is a great way to promote your own search engine. Especially a browser that’s as widely used as Chrome. Google makes Chrome, so it obviously makes sense that Google also provides Google Search as its default way to search the web. Chrome is also the most widely used browser by a wide margin — it has an estimated two-thirds of browser market share — so that means that many, many, many more people are using Google Search instead of other search engines just because it’s the default there.

But the interest isn’t just to push search — having a browser as big as Chrome gives companies a surface to push just about anything. Owning Chrome would let a company suddenly put products in front of four billion people. If you’re an upstart trying to get traction, that’s unbeatable, especially if you’re an upstart like an AI company that’s trying to replace the default — which, right now, is Google.

Here are the eager potential buyers — at least, that we know about:

• OpenAI: ChatGPT’s head of product Nick Turley testified that OpenAI would be interested in buying the browser. OpenAI already has web search features baked into ChatGPT, so it makes sense that the company would be interested in owning a widely used browser to potentially bring ChatGPT to even more users. Also, OpenAI, one of Google’s biggest rivals, would probably be very happy to own one of Google’s prized assets.
• Perplexity: Perplexity also offers AI-powered search. The company’s chief business officer testified Perplexity would be interested in buying Chrome. It likely wants Chrome for the same reasons that OpenAI does: as a platform that gets more people to use its services. It’s also already making its own browser, which Perplexity’s CEO says will help it build better agents and help it get data outside its app to “better understand” its users (and potentially show them personalized ads).
• Yahoo: The company testified at trial that it’s prototyping its own web browser, but just buying Chrome would be a much easier way to potentially get Yahoo in front of a lot more people. At the trial, Yahoo Search General Manager Brian Provost said that actually buying Chrome would potentially cost tens of billions of dollars, but it’s something that the company could make happen with the help of Apollo Global Management, its owner.

Yahoo isn’t the only company estimating a price in the eleven-digit range; Gabriel Weinberg, DuckDuckGo’s CEO, testified that Chrome could be worth, in a “back-of-the-envelope” estimate, up to $50 billion according to Bloomberg. So should a company get the opportunity to buy Chrome, it seems likely they’re going to have to front a lot of money.

But that enormous investment could be worth it. Whoever buys Chrome would instantly own a platform with billions of users. And right now, at a moment when Google is looking vulnerable, losing its browser to a competitor would probably be a significant blow.

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Here is what is new:

New features gradually being rolled out to the Beta Channel with toggle on

 

New profanity filter setting for voice typing

 

We’re excited to address the top customer feedback for voice typing by starting to roll out a new setting that lets you control the profanity filter. With this setting on, voice typing will continue to filter out profanity, masking it with asterisks, like it already did. With the setting off, it will type out your profanity like any other words.

 

To adjust this setting, open voice typing (Win + H), select the settings icon, and use the Filter profanity toggle in the settings menu.

 

Fixes that are rolling out gradually include the following:

Fixes gradually being rolled out to the Beta Channel with toggle on

 

[File Explorer]

 

• Fixed an issue where if you tapped the View button in File Explorer with touch, File Explorer would crash.

 

[Windows Spotlight]

 

• Fixed an issue where the Windows Spotlight flyout for “learn more about this picture” (when using it as your desktop background) might get stuck above other app windows.

 

[Input]

 

• Fixed an issue where when using the Symbols section of the touch keyboard, pressing the key to change pages may unexpectedly insert a character into password fields.

 

[Settings]

 

• Fixed an issue where hovering over the cards at the top of System > About wasn’t showing the correct corner radius.

And here is one known issue:

[Xbox Controllers]

 

• [NEW] Some Insiders are experiencing an issue where using their Xbox Controller via Bluetooth is causing their PC to bugcheck. Here is how to resolve the issue. Open Device Manager by searching for it via the search box on your taskbar. Once Device Manager is open, click on “View” and then “Devices by Driver”. Find the driver named “oemXXX.inf (XboxGameControllerDriver.inf)” where the “XXX” will be a specific number on your PC. Right-click on that driver and click “Uninstall”.

You can find the official announcement here.

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Here is what is rolling out gradually (basically the same changelog as the one that Microsoft shipped today to Dev Channel insiders😞

New features gradually being rolled out to the Beta Channel with toggle on

 

New profanity filter setting for voice typing

 

We’re excited to address the top customer feedback for voice typing by starting to roll out a new setting that lets you control the profanity filter. With this setting on, voice typing will continue to filter out profanity, masking it with asterisks, like it already did. With the setting off, it will type out your profanity like any other words.

 

To adjust this setting, open voice typing (Win + H), select the settings icon, and use the Filter profanity toggle in the settings menu.

 

Changes and Improvements gradually being rolled out to the Beta Channel with toggle on

 

[Click to Do (Preview)]

 

Click to Do is currently available in preview for Windows Insiders on Windows 11, version 24H2 in the Dev and Beta Channels on Copilot+ PCs.

 

• If your PC supports pen and inking, you can configure the shortcut button (usually at the tail of your pen) to open Click to Do with a single-click, with a double-click, or by press and hold. You can configure this via Settings > Bluetooth & devices > Pen & Windows Ink.

  

• Click to Do can also be added as 1 of the 4 apps you can launch via the pen menu when using a pen with your PC. If all 4 of the slots for the pen menu are configured with apps, you may need to swap out one of those apps with Click to Do via the pen menu settings.

   

  

[Improved Windows Search]

 

Improved Windows Search is currently available in preview for Windows Insiders on Windows 11, version 24H2 in the Dev and Beta Channels on Copilot+ PCs.

 

• If you are signed into OneDrive with a work or school account (Entra ID), you will only see matches for keywords you are searching for within the text of your cloud files in the results shown in the Windows search box on the taskbar – not photos.

 

[Taskbar & System Tray]

 

• We are improving Accessibility flyout in quick settings by grouping the assistive technologies by vision, hearing, motor and mobility for easy identification to help you find the right accessibility feature based on your needs.

  

Fixes gradually being rolled out to the Beta Channel with toggle on

 

[General]

 

• Fixed an underlying issue causing apps to appear blank after installing the latest flights.

 

[Click to Do (Preview)]

 

The following fixes are rolling out for Click to Do on Copilot+ PCs:

 

• Fixed the issue causing images that are used with Click to Do image actions to be stuck in your temp folder on your PC.

 

[Login and Lock]

 

• Fixed an issue causing Windows Hello facial recognition to not work for login for some Insiders after the last two flights.

 

[Input]

 

• Fixed an issue where when using the Symbols section of the touch keyboard, pressing the key to change pages may unexpectedly insert a character into password fields.
• Fixed an issue where toggling back and forth to the Japanese touch keyboard could block input on it.

 

[Settings]

 

• Fixed an issue where hovering over the cards at the top of System > About wasn’t showing the correct corner radius.

 

[Other]

 

• Fixed an issue which was causing Quick Assist to not work for non-administrator users (showing error 1002).
• Fixed an underlying issue which was causing certain apps to fail to open with an error saying, “The application was unable to load a required virtual machine component”.
• Fixed an underlying issue which could lead to certain USB devices becoming disconnected after sleep, until you rebooted your PC.

Fixes for everyone in the Beta Channel include the following:

[General]

 

• We fixed the issue that caused Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) to not work and the option “Fix problems using Windows Update” option under Settings > Recovery to also not work. If you experience any issues with these experiences, please file feedback in Feedback Hub.

And here is the list of known bugs:

[General]

 

• [REMINDER] When joining the Beta Channels on Windows 11, version 24H2 – you will be offered Build 26120.3360 After installing that update, you will be offered the most recent update available. This 2-hop experience to get onto the latest 24H2-based flight in the Beta Channel is just temporary.
• After you do a PC reset under Settings > System > Recovery, your build version may incorrectly show as Build 26100 instead of Build 26120. This will not prevent you from getting future Beta Channel updates, which will resolve this issue.
• Windows Sandbox may fail to launch with a 0x800705b4 error. If you hit this, you can try reinstalling Sandbox by unchecking Sandbox under “Turn Windows features on or off” to uninstall it then reboot, go back to “Turn Windows features on or off” and check Sandbox to reinstall it and reboot again.
• [NEW] We’re investigating an issue where core Windows surfaces are not able to load in safe mode (File Explorer, Start menu, and others) after the previous flight.

 

[Xbox Controllers]

 

• [NEW] Some Insiders are experiencing an issue where using their Xbox Controller via Bluetooth is causing their PC to bugcheck. Here is how to resolve the issue. Open Device Manager by searching for it via the search box on your taskbar. Once Device Manager is open, click on “View” and then “Devices by Driver”. Find the driver named “oemXXX.inf (XboxGameControllerDriver.inf)” where the “XXX” will be a specific number on your PC. Right-click on that driver and click “Uninstall”.

 

[Recall (Preview)]

 

• [REMINDER] You are always in control and can always choose to remove Recall anytime via “Turn Windows features on or off”. Removing Recall will delete entry points and binaries. Like any feature, Windows sometimes keeps temporary copies of binaries for serviceability. These Recall binaries are not executable and are eventually removed over time.
• [REMINDER] Make sure you update Microsoft 365 apps to the latest version so you can jump back into specific documents.

 

[Click to Do (Preview)]

 

• [REMINDER] The intelligent text actions are now locally moderated to ensure the safety of prompts and responses and has replaced the cloud endpoint. Now that these intelligent text actions are fully local, they are also available in Click to Do in Recall.
• [REMINDER] If any of your actions on image entities are no longer appearing, please ensure you have the latest updates for the Photos and Paint app from the Microsoft Store.

 

[Improved Windows Search]

 

• [REMINDER] For improved Windows Search on Copilot+ PCs, it is recommended that you plug in your Copilot+ PC for the initial search indexing to get completed. You can check your search indexing status under Settings > Privacy & security > Searching Windows.

 

[Start menu]

 

• [NEW] We’re investigating reports that clicking your profile picture isn’t opening the Account Manager for some Insiders after the last flight.

 

[Task Manager]

 

• After adding the new CPU Utility column, you may notice that System Idle Process always shows as 0.
• The CPU graphs in the Performance page are still using the old CPU utility calculations.

You can find the official announcement here.

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Microsoft planned to launch Recall in mid-2024, but the company was quickly forced to halt the rollout due to a number of privacy concerns. Microsoft took the feature down, and after a few months of radio silence, started testing Recall in the insider program. Since then, Recall has received multiple security and feature improvements for a better user experience.

For those unfamiliar with the feature, Recall works like a time machine for everything you do on your PC. It works by taking snapshots of your apps, websites, and other content so that you can retrace your steps and find anything you need using your own words. Microsoft says that with Recall, it takes "up to 70% less time to reengage with your PowerPoint presentation." For example, instead of remembering the exact file name, you can just ask Recall to find that PowerPoint presentation about elephants, and it will get you right to it.

Microsoft understands that not everyone wants to allow Windows 11 to capture everything that is happening on the screen. For this reason, the company made Recall a strict opt-in experience that is turned off by default. It also uses clear language when asking if the user wants to enable Recall during the initial setup. More importantly, all the data that Recall captures is stored locally. It is also fully encrypted, isolated, and protected with Windows Hello.

In addition to Recall, Copilot+ PC users are getting Click to Do. This feature offers contextual shortcuts to relevant actions like page summarization, text rewriting, copying images or text, and more. You can invoke Click to Do by pressing the Win key and making a click, swiping from the right on a touchscreen-enabled computer, or using a dedicated button in various apps like Snipping Tool.

Finally, Copilot+ PCs now have improved Windows Search, which allows you to find files by simply describing what you are looking for. It can understand the contextual meaning of your request to bring you images, documents, or settings in Windows Search, File Explorer search, and the Settings app.

The new AI-powered experiences for Copilot+ PCs are rolling out as part of the April 2025 non-security preview update. It is an optional release, so if you want to get it, go to Settings > Windows Update, toggle the "Get the latest updates as soon as they're available" option, and then check for available updates.

Note that while Click to Do image actions are available to all Copilot+ PCs, text actions are rolling out only to Snapdragon-powered devices. Also, Recall and Click to Do are not currently available to users in the European Economic Area. Microsoft says it is working on releasing those features in Europe later this year.

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Nearly a year after announcing the feature, Microsoft is finally ready to roll the controversial Windows Recall feature out to the general public, the company announced today on its Windows Experience Blog.

Only available on Copilot+ PCs, a subset of Windows 11 systems sold within the last year or so, Recall takes continuous screenshots of everything you do on your PC, saving them, scraping text from them, and saving it all in a searchable database. This obviously has major security and privacy implications—anyone who can get access to your Recall database can see nearly everything you've done on your PC—which is why Microsoft's initial rollout attempt was such a mess.

Recall's long road to release involved a rushed initial almost-launch, harsh criticism of its (then mostly nonexistent) security protections, multiple delays, a major under-the-hood overhaul, and five months of testing in Microsoft's Windows Insider beta program. Microsoft signaled that Recall was nearly ready for release two weeks ago when it came to the near-final Release Preview channel.

Testing of the new version of Recall, both by Ars and other security researchers, found that the company had addressed many of the substantive complaints about Recall's security and added better automated content filtering to help keep the feature from storing some kinds of sensitive information (though this filtering is still inconsistent). But most significantly, Microsoft has made Recall a feature you must opt in to using rather than opt out of using, and it's possible to remove it completely.

Recall is the most high-profile feature in the release Microsoft is starting to roll out today, but there are a few other changes in it for Copilot+ PCs. One is a new version of Windows' Search function, which "can understand the contextual meaning of words or phrases, making search more natural and intuitive." This natural-language search can be used in the Search box in the Taskbar, in File Explorer, and in the Settings app. Another new feature, called "Click to Do," lets you copy text from images, search the content on your screen, and quickly summarize or rewrite on-screen text (you can invoke it by pressing the Windows key and then clicking, hence Click to Do).

Copilot+ PCs have specific hardware requirements beyond the ones necessary to run Windows 11. The most significant is the requirement for a neural processing unit (NPU) that can process more than 40 trillion operations per second (TOPS). The NPU enables more processing of AI and machine learning models on-device so that these features can work more quickly and without sending sensitive personal information to Microsoft's servers.

The only consumer processors that currently support Copilot+ are Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite and Plus chips, Intel's Core Ultra 200V-series laptop chips (codenamed Lunar Lake), and AMD's Ryzen AI 300 series. Copilot+ features have generally been coming to the Arm-based Qualcomm PCs first and to x86-based Intel and AMD PCs later; Recall and the improved Search are available for both Arm and x86 PCs, while some Click to Do features are currently only available for Arm systems.

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Here is the changelog:

New features gradually being rolled out to the Dev Channel with toggle on

 

New profanity filter setting for voice typing

 

We’re excited to address the top customer feedback for voice typing by starting to roll out a new setting that lets you control the profanity filter. With this setting on, voice typing will continue to filter out profanity, masking it with asterisks, like it already did. With the setting off, it will type out your profanity like any other words.

 

To adjust this setting, open voice typing (Win + H), select the settings icon, and use the Filter profanity toggle in the settings menu.

 

Changes and Improvements gradually being rolled out to the Dev Channel with toggle on*

 

[Click to Do (Preview)]

 

Click to Do is currently available in preview for Windows Insiders on Windows 11, version 24H2 in the Dev and Beta Channels on Copilot+ PCs.

 

• If your PC supports pen and inking, you can configure the shortcut button (usually at the tail of your pen) to open Click to Do with a single-click, with a double-click, or by press and hold. You can configure this via Settings > Bluetooth & devices > Pen & Windows Ink.

  

• Click to Do can also be added as 1 of the 4 apps you can launch via the pen menu when using a pen with your PC. If all 4 of the slots for the pen menu are configured with apps, you may need to swap out one of those apps with Click to Do via the pen menu settings.

  

[Improved Windows Search

 

• Improved Windows Search is currently available in preview for Windows Insiders on Windows 11, version 24H2 in the Dev and Beta Channels on Copilot+ PCs.
• If you are signed into OneDrive with a work or school account (Entra ID), you will only see matches for keywords you are searching for within the text of your cloud files in the results shown in the Windows search box on the taskbar – not photos.

 

[Taskbar & System Tray]

 

• We are improving Accessibility flyout in quick settings by grouping the assistive technologies by vision, hearing, motor and mobility for easy identification to help you find the right accessibility feature based on your needs.

  

• Fixes gradually being rolled out to the Dev Channel with toggle on*

 

[General]

 

• Fixed an underlying issue causing apps to appear blank after installing the latest flights.

 

[Click to Do (Preview)]

 

• The following fixes are rolling out for Click to Do on Copilot+ PCs:
• Fixed the issue causing images that are used with Click to Do image actions to be stuck in your temp folder on your PC.

 

[Login and Lock]

 

• Fixed an issue causing Windows Hello facial recognition to not work for login for some Insiders after the last two flights.

 

[Input]

 

• Fixed an issue where when using the Symbols section of the touch keyboard, pressing the key to change pages may unexpectedly insert a character into password fields.
• Fixed an issue where toggling back and forth to the Japanese touch keyboard could block input on it.

 

[Settings]

 

• Fixed an issue where hovering over the cards at the top of System > About wasn’t showing the correct corner radius.

 

[Other]

 

• Fixed an issue which was causing Quick Assist to not work for non-administrator users (showing error 1002).
• Fixed an underlying issue which was causing certain apps to fail to open with an error saying, “The application was unable to load a required virtual machine component”.
• Fixed an underlying issue which could lead to certain USB devices becoming disconnected after sleep, until you rebooted your PC.
• Fixes for everyone in the Dev Channel

 

[General]

 

• We fixed the issue that caused Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) to not work and the option “Fix problems using Windows Update” option under Settings > Recovery to also not work. If you experience any issues with these experiences, please file feedback in Feedback Hub.

Known issues in this build include the following:

[General]

 

• [IMPORTANT]When joining the Dev Channel on Windows 11, version 24H2 – you will be offered Build 26200.5518 After installing that update, you will be offered the most recent update available. This 2-hop experience to get onto the latest 24H2-based flight in the Dev Channel is just temporary.
• After you do a PC reset under Settings > System > Recovery, your build version may incorrectly show as Build 26100 instead of Build 26200. This will not prevent you from getting future Beta Channel updates, which will resolve this issue.
• Windows Sandbox may fail to launch with a 0x800705b4 error. If you hit this, you can try reinstalling Sandbox by unchecking Sandbox under “Turn Windows features on or off” to uninstall it then reboot, go back to “Turn Windows features on or off” and check Sandbox to reinstall it and reboot again.
• [NEW] We’re investigating an issue where core Windows surfaces are not able to load in safe mode (File Explorer, Start menu, and others) after the previous flight.

 

[Xbox Controllers]

 

• [NEW] Some Insiders are experiencing an issue where using their Xbox Controller via Bluetooth is causing their PC to bugcheck. Here is how to resolve the issue. Open Device Manager by searching for it via the search box on your taskbar. Once Device Manager is open, click on “View” and then “Devices by Driver”. Find the driver named “oemXXX.inf (XboxGameControllerDriver.inf)” where the “XXX” will be a specific number on your PC. Right-click on that driver and click “Uninstall”.

 

[Recall (Preview)]

 

• [REMINDER] You are always in control and can always choose to remove Recall anytime via “Turn Windows features on or off”. Removing Recall will delete entry points and binaries. Like any feature, Windows sometimes keeps temporary copies of binaries for serviceability. These Recall binaries are not executable and are eventually removed over time.
• [REMINDER] Make sure you update Microsoft 365 apps to the latest version so you can jump back into specific documents.

 

[Click to Do (Preview)]

 

• [REMINDER] The intelligent text actions are now locally moderated to ensure the safety of prompts and responses and has replaced the cloud endpoint. Now that these intelligent text actions are fully local, they are also available in Click to Do in Recall.
• [REMINDER] If any of your actions on image entities are no longer appearing, please ensure you have the latest updates for the Photos and Paint app from the Microsoft Store.

 

[Improved Windows Search]

 

• [REMINDER] For improved Windows Search on Copilot+ PCs, it is recommended that you plug in your Copilot+ PC for the initial search indexing to get completed. You can check your search indexing status under Settings > Privacy & security > Searching Windows.

 

[Start menu]

 

• [NEW] We’re investigating reports that clicking your profile picture isn’t opening the Account Manager for some Insiders after the last flight.

 

[Task Manager]

 

• After adding the new CPU Utility column, you may notice that System Idle Process always shows as 0.
• The CPU graphs in the Performance page are still using the old CPU utility calculations.

You can find the official announcement here.

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Here is what Microsoft is rolling out gradually:

[Recall (preview)]

 

New! You work across so many apps, sites, and documents it can be hard to remember where you saw something you want to get back to. Recall (preview) saves you time by offering an entirely new way to search for things you’ve seen or done on your PC securely. With the AI capabilities of Copilot+ PCs, it’s now possible to quickly find and get back to any app, website, image, or document just by describing its content. To use Recall, you will need to opt-in to save snapshots, which are images of your activity, and enroll in Windows Hello to confirm your presence so only you can access your snapshots. You are always in control of what snapshots are saved and can pause saving snapshots at any time. As you use your Copilot+ PC throughout the day working on documents or presentations, taking video calls, and context switching across activities, Recall will take regular snapshots and help you find things faster and easier. When you need to find or get back to something you’ve done previously, open Recall and authenticate with Windows Hello. When you’ve found what you were looking for, you can reopen the application, website, or document, or use Click to Do to act on any image or text in the snapshot you found. For more info, see Retrace your steps with Recall.

 

[Click to Do (preview)]

 

• New! Click to Do (preview) makes it easier than ever for you to take immediate action on whatever catches your eye on-screen on your Copilot+ PC, saving you time by helping complete tasks inline and quickly getting you to the app that can best complete the job. For example, select an image using Click to Do to take actions like erasing objects using the Photos app or remove the background using Paint. To use Click to Do, simply use Windows key + mouse click or Windows key + Q. You can also enter through the Snipping Tool menu and print screen or searching “Click to Do” in the search box on the Windows taskbar. For more info, see Click to Do: do more with what's on your screen.
• New! On Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PCs, Click to Do includes intelligent text actions. Use Windows key + mouse click or Windows key + Q to select a text block and then drag to select the text that you want. You’ll see options to Summarize or to help you Rewrite your text, so it sounds more causal or more formal. These text actions leverage the capabilities of Phi Silica, the on-device Small Language Model (SLM) that is built right into Windows.
• New! Easily open Click to Do when you swipe from the rightmost edge of your display.
• New! The policies for managing Click to Do in a commercial environment.  IT admins can learn more by viewing Manage Click to Do.

 

[Improved Windows Search]

 

• New!  Finding your documents, photos, and settings across Windows 11 is easier on Copilot+ PCs with improved Windows Search, powered by semantic indexing models along with traditional lexical indexing. Whether it’s searching in File Explorer, in Windows Search on your taskbar, or in Settings— just type what’s on your mind to find it on your Copilot+ PC. You no longer need to remember file names, exact words in file content, or settings names. Searching for settings like “change my theme” will work within the Settings app for now. Thanks to the power of the 40+ TOPS NPU onboard Copilot+ PCs, these search improvements work even when you’re not connected to the internet. To find more info, see Searching indexing in Windows. Now available on AMD and Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs.
• New!  Locating your photos stored and saved in the cloud is getting simpler on Copilot+ PCs. You can use your own words in the search box at the upper-right corner of File Explorer like “summer picnics.” In addition to photos stored locally on your Copilot+ PC, photos from the cloud will show up in the search results together. Exact matches for your keywords within the text of your cloud files will also show in the search results. You can try this experience out today with your personal OneDrive when signed in with your Microsoft account and connected to the internet. Now available on AMD and Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs.

 

[Narrator] New! Keep track of what Narrator has spoken and access it for quick reference. With speech recap, you can quickly access spoken content, follow along with live transcription, and copy what Narrator last said—all with simple keyboard shortcuts.

 

[Phone Link] New! You can do even more with your Windows PC and your mobile device with direct access to cross-device features from the Start menu. For example, you can make phone calls, send SMS messages, access your photos, or share content between your mobile device and PC.

 

[Widgets]

 

• New! Web developers can use their existing content to create interactive widgets that can be added to multiple widgets surfaces. For more info, see Web widget providers.
• New! There are some new updates to the new Widgets on Lock experience for devices in the European Economic Area (EEA). In addition to accessibility and craftsmanship improvements, the Lock screen weather widget now supports customization. To configure your weather widget, go to Settings > Personalization > Lock screen and select the “Customize widget” option from the weather widget more options menu. More widgets will be customizable in the future.

 

[File Explorer]

 

• New! Pivot-based curated views on File Explorer Home that supports ease of access of Microsoft 365 content on Windows. Be more productive and get highly relevant content at your fingertips on File Explorer Home.
• Fixed: As part of our ongoing commitment to improving File Explorer accessibility, this release includes increased support for the text scaling (Settings > Accessibility > Text size) across File Explorer, File Open/Save dialogs and the copy dialogs.
• Fixed: Improved the performance of extracting zipped files, particularly in the case where you’re unzipping a large number of small files.
• Fixed: The address bar in File Explorer might unexpectedly not show a path after opening.

 

[Settings] New! Manage which apps Windows recommends actions, go to Settings > Apps > Actions on Copilot+ PCs.

 

[Windows Studio Effects] New! The Studio Effects automatic framing filter turns on after the initial use of the camera, if your PC supports Studio Effects and you have not used Studio Effects previously.

 

[Start]

 

• Fixed: You can’t use touch gestures to view the list of apps pinned in the Start menu.
• Fixed: The Sign out and More options buttons in the Start menu account manager might not be visible with increased text size.

 

[Taskbar]

 

• Fixed: The underlines beneath the app icons in the taskbar may remain visible even after the apps have been closed.
• Fixed: If you use the arrow keys after pressing the Windows key + T, the arrows move in the wrong direction for Arabic and Hebrew display languages.

 

[Desktop icons] The logic for apps pinned to the desktop has been updated, so that packaged apps no longer show an accent colored backplate. For example, if you were to drag and drop Snipping Tool from the apps list in Start to the desktop the icons should be bigger and easier to see now.

 

[Display] Fixed: You might need to press the WIN + P keyboard shortcut twice to switch topologies.

 

[ExtFloodFill] Fixed: There's an uncommon issue with ExtFloodFill where a horizontal line might appear in the incorrect location in Win32 applications.

 

[Graphics] Fixed: External graphics cards connected over Thunderbolt might unexpectedly not be discoverable in some cases.

 

[Hyper-V Manager] Fixed: Hyper-V Manager unexpectedly shows 0% CPU usage for VMs.

And here are the other improvements included in the update (rolling out to everyone):

• [Blue screen error] Fixed: This update resolves an issue observed after installing the April 2025 Windows security update and restarting the device. Affected devices encountered a blue screen exception with error code 0x18B indicating a SECURE_KERNEL_ERROR.
• [Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP Client)] Fixed: This update addresses an issue affecting internet connectivity on devices after resuming from sleep mode. Users might experience intermittent internet connections.
• [File Systems] Fixed: This update addresses an issue when the operating system stops unexpectedly, and an error message appears on a blue screen during normal usage with a user profile redirected to a network VHD(X).
• [Imaging] Fixed: This update addresses an issue where some content pages with JPEG images were not displaying.
• [Windows Hello] Fixed: This update addresses an edge case issue where Windows Hello doesn’t work on devices with specific security features enabled, preventing users from logging in with facial recognition or PIN. This issue was observed after performing a Push button reset or Reset this PC from Settings > System > Recovery and selecting Keep my Files and Local install.
• [Windows Setup] Fixed: If you install Windows 11, version 24H2 with Windows Setup and run System Preparation (Sysprep) afterwards, the boot file configuration is not properly updated, resulting in push-button reset options not working.
• [Windows Update] The Windows Update settings page and the Start menu power button will now show an estimated time for how long your PC will be offline to install updates from Windows Update.

You can download KB5055627 by heading to Settings > Windows Update and checking for available updates. Windows will then show you that a new optional update is available for download, so click "Download and install." Alternatively, you can get it from the Microsoft Update catalog.

For reference, you can check out this month's optional updates for Windows 11 version 23H2 here and Windows 10 here.

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The company earlier today provided an update on the issue. It says that the Word support team has devised a fix for the problem and it would be deployed on the Current channel and beta channel soon. Microsoft writes:

STATUS: FIXED

 

The Word Team implemented a fix which will go to the following channels soon:

 

• Beta Channel (Version 2505 Build 18822.15000) – ETA early May 2025, to check for build, go to Update History for Office Beta Channel - Office release notes.
• Current Channel Preview (Version 2505 18827.20000) – ETA mid May 2025, to check for build, go to Update History for Office Current Channel (Preview) - Office release notes.
• Current Channel (Version 2505 18827.20000) – ETA late May 2025, to check for build, go to Update history for Microsoft 365 Apps (listed by date) - Office release notes.

Unfortunately, though, the bug now haunts the Semi Annual channel and the way to work around the problem is to go back to version 2405. However it is not recommended and should only be done if an urgent workaround is required. It writes:

We found that the issue now occurs in Semi Annual Channel. If you urgently need to work around the issue the only option would be to revert to Version 2405. This is not recommended since there have been security updates since that version. To make the change do the following:

 

1. Locate the build of Version 2405 for the respective channel you are on from Update history for Microsoft 365 Apps (listed by date) - Office release notes.

    

2. Open a Command Prompt (Run as Administrator).

    

3. Type or past the command below and put the build from Step 1 and then press Enter:
   
   "%programfiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\ClickToRun\officec2rclient.exe" /update user updatetoversion=16.0.17628.20144

    

Alternately you can use the Office Deployment Tool to switch to an earlier version of a channel. For more information, go to How to revert to an earlier version of Office.

You can find the support article for the issue here on Microsoft's official website.

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The writing on the wall was out there for Windows Maps. Microsoft removed offline maps support some time ago, and as of Windows 11 version 24H2, it is no longer included with clean Windows installations. However, you can still get the app from the Microsoft Store.

According to the official documentation, the Windows Maps app will be removed from the Microsoft Store in July 2025. Before that, the company will ship the final update that will make the program fully inoperable. Those who want to use Bing Maps can switch to the web version, which is available via this link.

Here is what Microsoft says about the upcoming end of the Windows Maps app:

Maps is deprecated and will be removed from the Microsoft Store by July 2025. At this time, there will also be a final update to the app from the Store that makes it nonfunctional. If you remove the app before July 2025, you can still reinstall it from the Store, but past July 2025 you won't be able to reinstall it. You'll be able to uninstall the app at any time. Any personal data or files you have saved, such as guided navigation or URLs to maps, won't be removed, but they'll no longer function in the Maps app past July 2025.

 

If you wish to still use maps powered by the Bing service, please visit https://www.bing.com/maps. Maps is no longer preinstalled with Windows starting with the Windows 11, version 24H2 release.

If you want to get the Windows Maps app before Microsoft kills it for good, head to the Microsoft Store using this link.

Other features that Microsoft recently deprecated include Windows UWP Map control, Windows Maps platform APIs, and VBS enclaves for Windows 11 version 23H2 and earlier.

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Legacy search brand Yahoo has been working on its own web browser prototype, and says it would like to buy Google’s Chrome if the company is forced by a court to sell it.

The information came out during the fourth day of the Justice Department’s remedies trial to rectify Google’s search monopoly. The DOJ has — among other proposals — requested Judge Amit Mehta break up Google by requiring it sell its Chrome browser, which the agency says is a key distribution channel for its popular search engine that’s amassed too much power for anyone else to compete. Yahoo isn’t the only company interested in buying Chrome. While DuckDuckGo’s CEO said they wouldn’t be able to afford it, witnesses from Perplexity and OpenAI both expressed interest in the popular browser on the stand this week.

Yahoo seems to agree that owning a web browser is a very important portal for search, and is looking to run its own, either through developing or buying one. Yahoo Search General Manager Brian Provost testified that about 60% of search queries are done through a web browser; many people search directly from the address bar. That’s why, Provost testified, since last summer Yahoo has been “actively internally developing a prototype of a browser” to understand what it would need to do to put one out in the market. He added that Yahoo is in “ongoing” discussions with other companies about buying a browser, though he would not publicly state which ones it’s in talks with.

For Yahoo, prototyping its own browser will take six to nine months, Provost estimated. Acquiring Chrome would likely be a much faster way to ramp up to scale. Provost called Chrome “arguably the most important strategic player on the web,” and estimated

Yahoo’s search market share could jump from 3 percent to double digits if it were able to buy the browser. He estimated the deal would cost tens of billions of dollars, and said Yahoo would be able to secure that funding with the backing of its owner, Apollo Global Management. Apollo actually owns a browser brand that was at the center of a different antitrust case, but Provost said he wouldn’t consider it an active browser. The brand’s name? NetScape.

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If you haven’t heard of it, PyTorch is a go-to open-source machine learning framework that a lot of researchers and developers use to build and train deep neural networks. Before now, getting it to run on Windows devices with Arm chips was a pain since you had to compile the whole thing from source yourself, which takes time and is not beginner-friendly.

With the release of PyTorch 2.7, native Arm builds for Windows on Arm are now readily available for Python 3.12. This means developers can simply install PyTorch using a standard package manager like pip.

According to Microsoft:

This unlocks the potential to leverage the full performance of Arm64 architecture on Windows devices, like Copilot+ PCs, for machine learning experimentation, providing a robust platform for developers and researchers to innovate and refine their models.

The availability of these native builds is expected to boost local development, training, and testing of machine learning models directly on Arm-powered Windows machines. Microsoft specifically mentioned use cases such as image classification, natural language processing, and generative AI like Stable Diffusion.

To get started with the native PyTorch binaries on Windows on Arm, developers first need to ensure they have a few key prerequisites installed. This includes obtaining specific components from Visual Studio Build Tools or a full Visual Studio installation.

Specifically, you will need the Desktop development with C++ workload and make sure the VS 2022 C++ ARM64/ARM64EC build tools (latest) are selected within the installer.

You also need to install Rust and, of course, have Python 3.12 (the Arm64 version) installed on your system. Once those are in place, installing the stable PyTorch build via pip is a straightforward command pointing to the correct download index:

pip install --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl torch

If you are interested in trying out the latest features and are comfortable with less stable builds, you can also install the Nightly or Preview version using this command:

pip install --pre torch --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/nightly/cpu

Beyond the Python package, native builds for LibTorch, PyTorch's C++ front-end often used for deployment scenarios, are also available. The getting started and installation guide for LibTorch can be accessed directly on PyTorch's website. As is good practice for any Python development, Microsoft also recommends creating a Virtual Environment (venv) for your projects to manage dependencies cleanly and avoid conflicts between different project requirements.

Microsoft also provided an example of using the native PyTorch binaries for Stable Diffusion on Windows on Arm, demonstrating how developers can build applications leveraging generative AI. If you're interested, you can find the code in this GitHub repo.

It is worth noting that while PyTorch and LibTorch themselves now have native binaries for Windows on Arm, the story is not always so complete for every single dependency you might need. Some additional Python packages developers might use alongside PyTorch, especially those with performance-sensitive code often written in C, C++, or Rust, may not yet have pre-compiled native Arm64 .whl files available on PyPI. This means a simple pip install might not find a ready-to-use native version for every single library in your environment.

However, pip does have a capability to automatically install dependencies directly from source code distributions, often provided as .tar.gz files. If the necessary build tools are present on your system, which is why prerequisites like MSVC with the Arm64 toolchain and Rust were mentioned earlier, pip can compile these packages into Windows-compatible .whl files locally.

Microsoft pointed out that this method can be used to install specific versions of popular packages like NumPy 2.2.3 and safetensors 0.5.3, and shared the commands to do it:

pip install numpy==2.2.3 
# and 
pip install safetensors==0.5.3

as examples of packages that can be installed via compilation from source.

You can read the full announcement, with more examples on the Microsoft Windows Blogs.

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I've been a Windows user pretty much all my life. I've tried switching to the Mac and all kinds of Linux distributions, but I always find myself back on Windows because it's just the best, in my opinion. However, that does not mean it's perfect, and I wouldn't want anyone, even Microsoft, thinking it was.

A lot of my issues with Windows are very minor. I'm a sucker for detail (e.g. my thoughts on touch in Windows, or the terrible new Outlook app), and sadly Windows doesn't always do a great job when it comes to paying attention to detail. But it's hard to complain about such minor issues across the OS because there are usually bigger fish to fry, like trying to ship Windows Recall.

But I say, screw that! Small and unimportant details are just as big a deal as significant game-breaking issues.

So, here are the top 6 "first-world" problems I have with Windows 11 that I would like Microsoft to address.

1. The way Windows creates a local user directory

@XenoPanther on X went through the code bits of build 27842, namely the AppraiserRes.dll file (one of the files that checks whether your PC is compatible with Windows 11 and various versions), and discovered mentions of GE25H2 with build number 26200.

For reference, GE stands for Germanium, one of Microsoft's codenames for development milestones. Microsoft moved Windows 11 to Germanium builds with the release of Windows 11 version 24H2 or "2024 Update," in the second half of last year. It was a full system update, unlike the previous release, version 23H2. The latter was a "small" enablement package that turned on new features while still being based on Windows 11 version 22H2.

Now, it looks like Windows 11 version 25H2 will repeat that scenario. Version 25H2 could land in the second half of 2025 as an enablement package, and a small bump in the build number (26200 vs 26100 in version 24H2) further backs this suggestion.

Having this year's feature update as a small enablement package might be good news to many Windows 11 users. There is a popular belief that version 24H2 is one of the least polished Windows 11 feature updates due to a large number of bugs and known issues that Microsoft is still patching to this day. Hopefully, version 25H2 will be a less problematic update to millions of people who will ditch Windows 10 as it gets closer to the end of mainstream support on October 14, 2025.

Of course, none of this is officially confirmed, and Microsoft has yet to announce Windows 11 version 25H2 and the way it plans to update users from the currently supported versions 23H2 and 24H2. Therefore, take these discoveries with a fair share of scepticism.

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Here are the update highlights:

Intel Game On Driver support on Intel Arc B-series, A-series Graphics GPUs and Intel Core Ultra with built-in Intel Arc GPUs for:

 

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered

 

Game performance improvements on Intel Arc B-series Graphics GPUs versus Intel 32.0.101.6734 software driver for:

 

• Infinity Nikki (DX12)
  • Up to 7% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Ultra settings
  • Up to 5% average FPS uplift at 1440p with Ultra settings

Here is what was fixed:

Intel Arc B-Series Graphics Products:

 

• Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 (DX12) may experience an application crash while loading to gameplay.
• Cyberpunk 2077 (DX12) may experience an intermittent crash on certain motherboards with Ray-Tracing on.

 

Intel Arc A-Series Graphics Products:

 

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (DX12) may exhibit darker than expected shadows in certain campaign scenarios.

 

Intel Core Ultra Series 2 with built-in Intel Arc GPUs:

 

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (DX12) may exhibit darker than expected shadows in certain campaign scenarios.
• Users may experience less than expected performance while screen recording during gameplay on certain devices.
• Video playback on external display may experience intermittent freeze while performing certain operations

Here is the list of known bugs:

Intel Arc B-Series Graphics Products:

 

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (DX12) may exhibit flickering corruption in certain scenes during gameplay.
• Returnal (DX12) may experience an application crash during gameplay with Ray-Tracing settings turned on.
• Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 (DX12) may exhibit corruptions on water areas in certain scenarios.
• MLPerf may exhibit intermittent errors when running on multi-GPU system configurations. It is recommended to disable integrated GPU as a workaround.
• SPECapc for Maya 2024 may experience intermittent application freeze during benchmark.
• PugetBench for Davinci Resolve Studio V19 may experience an application crash while running the benchmark.

 

Intel Arc A-Series Graphics Products:

 

• Returnal (DX12) may experience an application crash during gameplay with Ray-Tracing settings turned on.
• PugetBench for Davinci Resolve Studio V19 may experience an application crash while running the benchmark.

 

Intel Core Ultra Series 1 with built-in Intel Arc GPUs:

 

• PugetBench for Davinci Resolve Studio V19 may experience errors intermittently with benchmark preset set to Extended.

 

Intel Core Ultra Series 2 with built-in Intel Arc GPUs:

 

• PugetBench for Davinci Resolve Studio* V19 may experience errors intermittently with benchmark preset set to Extended.

Intel 32.0.101.6737 WHQL is available on PCs with 64-bit Windows 10 and Windows 11 with the following graphics products from Intel:

You can download the driver from the official website here. Full release notes are available here (PDF).

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With version 3.9.1, Files received a reworked release notes experience. Now, upon launching the app after installing the latest update, Files will open a new tab with the changelog to let users know about new features, improvements, and tweaks.

Next is a slightly improved sidebar, which now has placeholder text that should help users better understand how the sidebar works and what they can do with it. Also, there are several improvements to the app's settings. You can now right-click the settings icon to access the JSON file and tweak available options in an editor. Also, you can now specify file size units—binary or decimal.

Finally, Files 3.9.1 adds automatic encoding detection for extracting ZIP files. When creating a compressed folder, Files defaults to UTF-8.

Other fixes and improvements in the update include the following:

Updates

 

• Fixed a crash that would sometimes occur durring updates.

 

Toolbar

 

• Fixed an issue where toolbar buttons sometimes displayed the wrong icon state.
• Fixed an issue where the extract button was sometimes missing from the toolbar.
• Fixed the menu label for overflow items in the toolbar.

 

File sorting

 

• Fixed sorting issues with files containing #-# numbering.
• Fixed an issue where name sorting was case-sensitive.

 

Git

 

• Fixed errors that sometimes occurred with shortcuts in Git repositories.

 

Properties

 

• Fixed an issue where Cleanup and Format options were incorrectly displayed for Cloud Drives.

You can download Files Preview from the Microsoft Store or the project's official website.

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Soon after the update started rolling out, some players of the beloved classic Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas began reporting a bizarre problem: the Skimmer seaplane (shown below) was completely missing from the game world and could not be found anywhere.

These reports started circulating among the game's community and eventually landed on the radar of Silent, the developer known for SilentPatch. If you don't know what SilentPatch is, it is a passion project with unofficial fixes to squash bugs and improve how older PC games, especially the Grand Theft Auto titles, run on modern computer systems.

Silent (AKA CookiePLMonster) initially figured it might be an issue caused by other mods or perhaps a specific setup, as is common with older games and many user configurations. However, the reports kept coming, and some players insisted the bug happened even on a game installation with no other modifications after they updated to Windows 11 24H2. One user posting on GTAForums captured the general confusion:

EDIT: So I think I confirmed it, I set up a VM with Windows 11 23h2 and the damn plane spawns fine, and updating that same VM to 24h2 breaks the skimmer, why would a small feature update in 2024 break a random plane in a 2005 game is anyone’s guess.

Convinced the issue was real, Silent decided to investigate directly. He set up a test environment with Windows 11 24H2 and a clean installation of GTA San Andreas. Sure enough, loading the game confirmed the Skimmer was gone from its usual spot on the water.

Things got even weirder when he tried to force the game to create the plane using an in-game command. Instead of appearing normally, the game glitched and launched the player character an astronomical distance into the sky.

Without SilentPatch installed, this sends the game camera into a visual mess; with SilentPatch installed, the game simply freezes.

That chaotic behavior of being launched sky-high strongly hinted at numerical errors, likely involving floating-point values, within the game's logic. When the game froze with SilentPatch installed, Silent could see exactly where it happened in the code: inside a function called CPlane::PreRender, stuck in a loop trying to adjust the plane's rotor blade angle.

The value it was using for the blade speed (m_fBladeSpeed) was enormous, around 3.73e+29. This kind of impossibly large number meant tiny adjustments were ineffective, leading to the freeze. This huge speed value was ultimately derived from the plane's altitude, confirming the launch into the sky was the initial symptom of something being fundamentally wrong with the plane's properties.

Silent traced the source of this problem back to the code that handles setting up a vehicle's physics the first time it loads. This process calculates things like the vehicle's "bounding box" - an invisible box defining its physical boundaries. A critical part of this setup involves adjusting the bounding box's vertical limit (its Z value) based on the vehicle's suspension. He discovered that for the Skimmer, this calculation was using incorrect numbers, resulting in a corrupted Z value for the bounding box, specifically something like -4.30747210e+33. This impossible value was what caused the game to think the plane was at an extreme height, triggering the sky-launch and the subsequent numerical errors.

The deeper Silent went, the more he realized the core issue was tied to how the Skimmer is defined in one of the game's configuration files, vehicles.ide. The Skimmer's entry in this file was shorter than other planes, missing a couple of key numbers needed for its setup - specifically, the size of its wheels.

This was likely a leftover from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, where the Skimmer was classified as a boat and did not need these 'wheel' parameters. When Rockstar changed it to a plane in San Andreas, they forgot to update its line in vehicles.ide to include these now-required values.

The game's function for loading vehicle data, CFileLoader::LoadVehicleObject, uses sscanf to read the parameters from the vehicles.ide line into local variables. The critical flaw here is that the game's code did not initialize the local variables intended for the wheel size parameters to a default value (like 0.0), nor did it check if sscanf successfully read values for them.

This meant that when the game read the Skimmer's line, which was missing those parameters, the local variables on the program's stack intended for the wheel sizes simply held whatever data was already present in those memory locations from previous function calls. This is a big no-no in programming because it relies on pure chance - the contents of uninitialized variables are unpredictable.

Now, here is where Windows 11 24H2 enters the picture and exposes this hidden flaw. For nearly twenty years, on many versions of Windows, including Windows 10, a strange bit of luck kept this bug from appearing on PC. The vehicles.ide file is read sequentially. The entry for the 'Topfun' van comes right before the Skimmer's entry. The Top Fun van does have wheel size values defined, and they are both 0.7.

By pure coincidence, on older Windows versions, the memory on the stack used to store Topfun's wheel sizes after its entry was processed was not overwritten by other operations before the game's code started reading the Skimmer's entry. So, when the game looked at the uninitialized stack locations for the Skimmer's wheel sizes, it accidentally picked up the stale 0.7 values left behind by Topfun. The calculations would then proceed using 0.7, resulting in a mostly functional, if technically incorrect, setup for the Skimmer.

However, Windows 11 24H2 brought some internal changes. One small change was in how a low-level Windows function (LeaveCriticalSection), part of the C runtime library and involved in tidying up after reading files line by line, used temporary memory on the stack. This function started using slightly more stack space. This minor shift was just enough that when the game finished processing the Topfun line and moved to the Skimmer line, that specific stack location where the 0.7 values used to linger was now overwritten by this internal Windows function call before the Skimmer's variables were accessed.

So, on Windows 11 24H2, when the game went to read the Skimmer line and loaded its uninitialized local variables from the stack, that memory spot no longer held the lucky 0.7 from Topfun. It held arbitrary data left by the updated Windows function. This unpredictable data was then used in the calculation for the Skimmer's physical setup, resulting in a wildly incorrect value for its bounding box Z coordinate, causing the plane to essentially disappear or launch the player into space.

Silent makes it clear that this is not a bug in Windows 11 24H2. The way internal operating system functions use stack memory is not something programs are supposed to rely on; those details can change anytime Microsoft updates things.

The real bug has always been in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, which was incorrectly depending on a lucky memory layout that persisted for years. Silent will include a proper code fix for this in the next SilentPatch update.

For players who want to fix this issue themselves right now, before the next SilentPatch update, it is possible to manually edit the game's vehicles.ide file. Simply open data\vehicles.ide in your San Andreas directory with Notepad, find the line starting with "460, skimmer", and replace it with:

460, skimmer, skimmer, plane, SEAPLANE, SKIMMER, null, ignore, 5, 0, 0, -1, 0.7, 0.7, -1

Save the file, and the Skimmer should reappear. Silent notes that a similar issue occurred with Bully Scholarship Edition breaking on Windows 10 for analogous reasons.

Source and image credits: Silent's Blog

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In addition to files, emails, and meetings, Microsoft 365 Copilot in Word can dive into a whole folder that is stored on OneDrive or SharePoint. Just keep in mind that if a folder has over 10 files, Copilot will refer to the 10 most recent files.

Another change coming with today's update is support for larger documents. Now, you can reference documents with up to 1.5 million words or 3,000 pages, plus you can reference up to 20 items when using the Draft with Copilot feature.

Folder referencing is now available in Word for the Web, and Microsoft plans to bring it to desktop apps on Windows and Mac in July 2025. As for the ability to reference up to 20 files and large-sized Word documents, these two changes will be available in Word for the web and desktop apps later this month.

If you want to try this feature out, head to Word for the Web and create a new document, then open the Copilot prompt window, type your request, and place a forward slash (or click the paperclip button) to open the upload UI. Specify what files you want to reference and click the blue button with an arrow.

Other Copilot improvements in Word that Microsoft recently introduced include better voice note handling and the ability to transcribe them into prebuilt or custom templates. You can learn more about that here.

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Here is what is new:

[General]

 

• The improved battery iconography in Windows 11 may disappear for Windows Insiders in the current flights. We’re beginning to re-roll this change out to Windows Insiders.

  

• We’re previewing a new, more streamlined UI for unexpected restarts which better aligns with Windows 11 design principles and supports our goal of getting users back into productivity as fast as possible. We’ve simplified your experience while preserving the technical information on the screen. As a reminder, for Windows Insiders this appears as a “green screen”. This is currently rolling out to Windows Insiders on Windows 11, version 24H2 and higher in the Beta, Dev, and Canary Channels.

  

[Windows Security]

 

• We are beginning to roll out a change in the Windows Security app where will show more details such as manufacturer and manufacturer version for Pluton TPM chips if your PC has one under Device security > Security processor details.

 

[Other]

 

• Support for the Visual Studio Graphics Analyzer’s shader debugging feature is being removed. In this build, attempting to use it may crash Visual Studio or the analysis session. It is recommended that customers use alternative graphics debuggers such as PIXfor D3D12 or RenderDoc.
• We’re removing the bypassnro.cmd script from the build to enhance security and user experience of Windows 11. This change ensures that all users exit setup with internet connectivity and a Microsoft Account.

 

Fixes

 

[General]

 

• Fixed the issue causing the toggle to get the latest updates as they are available via Settings > Windows Update to not render correctly and automatically turn off by itself.
• Fixed an issue in the latest builds causing some Insiders to see a bugcheck with WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR doing various actions on their PC.

 

[Taskbar & System Tray]

 

• Fixed an issue impacting explorer.exe reliability in the latest builds.
• Fixed an issue where when using Hebrew or Arabic as your display language, if you pressed WIN + T then arrow keys, focus through the taskbar icons would move in the opposite direction.

 

[Administrator Protection]

 

• Fixed an issue which could cause lsass.exe to unexpectedly use a lot of CPI, impacting performance, after enabling Administrator Protection.

 

[Input]

 

• Fixed a high hitting ctfmon.exe crash, which could impact the ability to type.
• Fixed an issue in the latest builds causing DWM to crash when inking (which could lead to you seeing a black screen flash).

 

[Login and Lock]

 

• Updated the web sign-in icon slightly to better align with the other icons when selecting a sign in option on the login screen.

 

[Windows Security]

 

• Fixed an issue where the Smart App Control icon wasn’t displaying correctly in the Windows Security app.

 

[Display and Graphics]

 

• Fixed an issue where external graphics cards connected over Thunderbolt were unexpectedly not discoverable in some cases.
• Fixed an issue where some JPG images weren’t displaying, although they could display correctly on older builds.
• Fixed an issue where you might need to press the Windows key plus P twice in order to switch topologies.

 

[Other]

 

• Fixed an issue where the IP Helper Service was failing to start in the latest builds. This may have caused issues with some apps.
• Fixed an issue causing midisrv.exe crashes in the latest builds.
• Fixed an issue which was causing the Run dialog to not show an autocomplete dropdown if you started typing a file path.

And here is the list of known bugs:

[General]

 

• [IMPORTANT NOTE FOR COPILOT+ PCs] If you are joining the Canary Channel on a new Copilot+ PC from the Dev Channel, Release Preview Channel or retail, you will lose Windows Hello pin and biometrics to sign into your PC with error 0xd0000225 and error message “Something went wrong, and your PIN isn’t available”. You should be able to re-create your PIN by clicking “Set up my PIN”.
• [NEW] We’re working on the fix for an issue causing night light to not work for some Insiders after the latest flight.

 

[Xbox Controllers]

 

• [NEW] Some Insiders are experiencing an issue where using their Xbox Controller via Bluetooth is causing their PC to bugcheck. Here is how to resolve the issue. Open Device Manager by searching for it via the search box on your taskbar. Once Device Manager is open, click on “View” and then “Devices by Driver”. Find the driver named “oemXXX.inf (XboxGameControllerDriver.inf)” where the “XXX” will be a specific number on your PC. Right-click on that driver and click “Uninstall”.

 

[Taskbar]

 

• We’re working on the fix for an issue where the taskbar icons aren’t increasing in size as they should when using your PC in a tablet posture.

You can find the official announcement here.

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This fresh coat of paint moves things around quite a bit compared to the layout users have been accustomed to for a decade.

As you can see, the new UI features buttons for each prominent action. The Play/Pause button is more prominent, followed by the Next button, the video timestamp, and video chapters, all nestled in their own pills or capsules.

The volume button is being shifted onto the other side of the player controls, now sharing its capsule with the rest of the action icons like settings and fullscreen. YouTube has also embraced a frosted-glass style for its player menus, using a semi-transparent Gaussian blur to softly mute the video content behind the controls.

A potentially significant functional change appears to be the volume control. Seemingly, you can no longer hover on the volume slider and scroll or even use the up or down keys to adjust the audio. Neowin also noticed that installing extensions, such as Sponsorblock, might affect the placement of menus within this new design.

This isn't the first time YouTube has tinkered with its interface or made changes that rubbed users the wrong way. Perhaps one of the most memorable UI controversies was the removal of the iconic bright red subscribe button, a staple of the platform's identity for years.

This change saw the prominent red button replaced with a white or grey button featuring red text. This move was met with surprise, dislike, and confusion among users and creators who felt the new button was less visible and did not stand out as effectively as a call to action.

More recently, there was controversy over larger thumbnails on the homepage and tests that moved video descriptions and comments into a sidebar, separating them from related videos. The removal of the public dislike count also generated significant backlash from the community, as did past changes to monetization that impacted creators.

As for the updated player UI, some netizens are not happy with the look. Reactions shared online indicate significant frustration with the altered layout and perceived loss of functionality. Some users were quick to voice their displeasure and questioned the necessity of the change entirely:

UX Developers need to justify their salaries somehow.

 

The UI was already fine, but they need to justify why Google has to pay them so they'll keep working on pointless and bad updates.

In other YouTube news, the platform's Music service now lets you share lyrics with other users. For now, the feature is only available to select Android users, and there’s no information on when Google will bring it to other platforms.

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Here is what Microsoft is rolling out gradually:

• [File Explorer]
  • New! Pivot-based curated views on File Explorer Home that supports ease of access of Microsoft 365 content on Windows. Be more productive and get highly relevant content at your fingertips on File Explorer Home.
  • Fixed: Improved the performance of extracting zipped files, particularly in the case where you’re unzipping a large number of small files.
• [Narrator] New! Keep track of what Narrator has spoken and access it for quick reference. With speech recap, you can quickly access spoken content, follow along with live transcription, and copy what Narrator last said—all with simple keyboard shortcuts.
• [Phone Link] New! You can do even more with your Windows PC and your mobile device with direct access to cross-device features from the Start menu. For example, you can make phone calls, send SMS messages, access your photos, or share content between your mobile device and PC.
• [Widgets]
  • New! Web developers can use their existing content to create interactive widgets that can be added to multiple widgets surfaces. For more info, see Web widget providers.
  • New! Support for lock screen widgets (previously referred to as “Weather and more”) arrives on devices in the European Economic Area (EEA). You can add, remove, and rearrange lock screen widgets such as Weather, Watchlist, Sports, Traffic, and more. Any widget that supports the small sizing option can be added. To customize your lock screen widgets, navigate to Settings > Personalization > Lock screen.
• [Desktop icons] The logic for apps pinned to the desktop has been updated, so that packaged apps no longer show an accent colored backplate. For example, if you were to drag and drop Snipping Tool from the apps list in Start to the desktop the icons should be bigger and easier to see now.
• [Share Sheet] Make last-minute edits such as cropping, rotating, and adding filters to images shared though the share sheet.
• [Start]
  • Fixed: You can’t use touch gestures to view the list of apps pinned in the Start menu.
  • Fixed: The Sign out and More options buttons in the Start menu account manager might not be visible with increased text size.
• [Taskbar] Fixed: If you use the arrow keys after pressing the Windows key + T, the arrows move in the wrong direction for Arabic and Hebrew display languages.

Customers who still use Windows 11 version 22H2 (Enterprise and Education editions) can get the following improvements with today's release:

• [Server Message Block (SMB)] Fixed: An issue where an Excel file, hosted on a SMB file share with Access Based Enumeration enabled, containing links to multiple other files hosted on network shares, might take longer to open.
• [Sign in Impact] Fixed: An issue affecting the USBxHCI controller and all devices that connect to your computer using a USB port on Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 200V Series Processors. The built-in USB camera won't work with Windows Hello sign-in unless you manually disable Enhanced Sign-in Security (ESS). To turn off ESS, go to Settings > Accounts > Sign-in options > Additional settings > Sign in with an external camera or fingerprint reader > toggle switch ON. If you create a Windows Hello container while using Windows 11, version 23H2, it might prevent you from using ESS after you upgrade to Windows 11, version 24H2
• [Xbox]
  • This update addresses an issue affecting Xbox Elite Wireless Controllers with certain firmware versions, where the keyboard might not function and displays an error indicator in the device manager.
  • Fixed: The driver verifier stops responding during gamepad controller driver certification, affecting Windows Hardware Quality Labs testing.
• [Windows Kernel Vulnerable Driver Blocklist file (DriverSiPolicy.p7b)] This update adds to the list of drivers that are at risk for Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) attacks.

As usual, feel free to skip C-updates if you do not feel like installing a preview release. However, if you want to get it, go to Windows Update in the Settings app and check for available updates. Alternatively, you can download KB5055629 from the Microsoft Update Catalog. This month's non-security updates for Windows 11 version 24H2 will be available at a later date.

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The previous AMD chipset driver, version 7.02.13.148, was a major release as it added the new AMD Application Compatibility Database Driver, which is said to make CPU swapping simpler, and also improved support for the Microsoft Pluton security processor.

The new chipset driver package, however, does not add any new programs or drivers, though AMD has provided a workaround for an issue that won't let users revert to a previous driver series version.

The full changelog is given below:

Release Highlights

 

• Bug fixes.

 

Known Issues

 

• After installing the AMD Chipset Installer version “7.xx.xx.xx”, users cannot install version “6.xx.xx.xx” or earlier.
  • Workaround:
    • Un-install the latest version of the AMD Chipset installer (version 7.xx.xx.xx or later).
    • Delete the “Qt_Dependencies” folder located at "C:\Program Files (x86)\AMD\Chipset_Software\".
    • Install any older version of the AMD Chipset installer (version 6.xx.xx.xx or earlier).
• On a non-English OS, some driver names may appear in English.
• Occasionally, Ryzen PPKG may not install or upgrade.

The full breakdown of the various drivers inside the chipset driver package are given below:

To download the new driver, head over to this page here (alternate link) on AMD's official website.

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Here are the new games that AMD Software 25.4.1 supports, including the just-launched The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered:

• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Remastered
• Expanded game support for AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4)
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered
• Assassin's Creed Shadows
• Kingdom Come Deliverance 2
• Dynasty Warriors Origin
• Civilization 7
• Naraka Bladepoint

Here is what was fixed:

Fixed Issues and Improvements

 

• Failure to apply effects models may be observed while using "Adjust Lighting v1" and "Adjust Lighting v2" features in Topaz Photo AI with Radeon™ RX 9000 series graphics products.
• Flashing or flickering may appear while using AMD Freesync™ technology.
• Lower than expected performance may be observed while running DirectML/GenAI models in Amuse 3.0 with Radeon™ RX 7000 series graphics products and Ryzen AITM 300 series processors.
• Image corruption may be observed while running certain diffuser models in Amuse 3.0 with Radeon™ RX 9000 series graphics products.
• Lower than expected performance may be observed while playing World of Warcraft (western plaguelands) with Radeon™ RX 9000 series graphics products.
• Failure to detect integrated camera may be observed after driver installation using factory reset option on some Ryzen™ AI Max and Max+ series products.
• Added support for Amuse 3 and AMD-optimized models.

 

Important Notes

 

• FSR 4 is not currently supported by Naraka Bladepoint for some users under Windows 10.

Here is the list of known bugs:

• Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing The Last of Us Part 2.
• System crash may be observed due to a memory leak when using SteamVR on some AMD Radeon™ Graphics Products, such as the Radeon™ RX 9000 series. Users experiencing this issue are recommended to turn off Motion Smoothing in SteamVR settings.
• Installation progress may persistently display 0% while installing AMD Chat within the AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition user interface after upgrading to AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series graphics products.
• Stutter may be observed while playing games with some VR headsets at 80Hz or 90Hz refresh rate on some AMD Radeon™ Graphics Products such as the Radeon™ RX 7000 series. Users experiencing this issue are recommended to change the refresh rate as a temporary workaround.
• Intermittent system or application crash may be observed while playing Cyberpunk 2077
• Intermittent system or application crash may be observed during shader compilation while playing Fantasy VII Rebirth during shader compilation.
• Failure to launch may be observed for Battlefield 1 on Radeon™ RX 9000 series graphics products with Ryzen™ 9 9950X integrated graphics. Users experiencing these issues are recommended to disable integrated graphics (iGPU) in system BIOS as a temporary workaround.
• Intermittent failure to launch may be observed when AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition user interface is launched from desktop context menu or system tray.
• Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing Monster Hunter Wilds with Radeon™ Anti-Lag and Instant Replay enabled.
• Intermittent system or application crash may be observed while playing Marvels Spiderman 2 with Radeon™ Anti-Lag 2 enabled on Radeon™ RX 7000 series graphics products.
• Artifacts or corruption may appear while playing BattleField on Radeon™ RX 7000 series graphics products.

The driver is compatible with 64-bit Windows 10 and 11 systems running one of the following graphics cards (desktop and mobile): RX 5000 Series, RX 6000 Series, RX 7000 Series, RX 9070 Series, and all Ryzen CPUs with integrated Radeon graphics.

You can download AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 25.4.1 Optional Driver from the official support document (release notes are available on the same page).

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