Microsoft releases Windows 10 build 20175 to the Dev channel

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Microsoft releases Windows 10 build 20175 to the Dev channel

 

Today, Microsoft is releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview build 20175 to the Dev channel. There are a couple of new features in this build, but one notable change is that this one is supported for AMD-powered PCs, whereas build 20170 wasn't. This is notable because anyone on build 20161 or earlier are subject to their build expiring on July 31. In other words, if you have an AMD processor, you'll want to grab this build.

 

As for the new features, one of them is quick access to pinned sites in Edge, so if you click on a pinned site in the taskbar, you'll see previews for all instances of that site across all of your open windows. Another new feature is Eye Contact for the Surface Pro X, something that was touted back in November when the device was introduced. It corrects your gaze so it looks like you're looking into the camera.

 

Finally, you'll be able to reset UWP apps in PowerShell, rather than only being able to do so in Settings. Here's the full changelog:

Improving pinned sites in Microsoft Edge

Earlier this month, we announced ALT + TAB between apps and sites, the first of our new productivity enhancements coming to Microsoft Edge on Windows 10. Today, we’re announcing another feature we’ve been working on to make you more efficient when browsing the web: quick access to tabs for your pinned sites. Clicking a pinned site on the Taskbar will now show you all of the open tabs for that site across any of your Microsoft Edge windows, just like you’d expect for any app with multiple open windows. Please let us know what you think!

This feature is currently rolling out to a subset of Insiders today and requires Microsoft Edge Insider Build 85.0.561.0 or higher (Canary or Dev Channel).

 

NOTE: Since this is an early preview, existing sites on your Taskbar will not experience this new behavior until you remove and re-pin them.

 

For more details on our new multitasking improvements, check out our post on the Microsoft Edge blog.

Introducing Reset-AppxPackage

For some time now, you’ve been able to reset your UWP apps in Settings – with today’s build we’re now exposing this ability via PowerShell as well. To do this, you’ll need the appx package name, so your use of the command may look like this:

 

>> Get-AppxPackage *calculator* | Reset-AppxPackage

 

The benefit of enabling this via PowerShell is that if needed you will now be able to run the reset commands for certain system components that are not currently listed as available to reset in Settings, for example Start.

 

Please note by nature of this command, if you choose to run it it will reset your experience back to the default experience and you will lose the associated app data.

Make a more personal connection with Eye Contact on Surface Pro X

Powered by artificial intelligence capabilities of the Microsoft SQ1(TM) processor, Eye Contact helps to adjust your gaze on video calls so you appear to be looking directly in the camera on your Surface Pro X. Windows Insiders can turn this feature on via the Surface app on their Surface Pro X.

In the 'other updates' section, there are new icons for Snip & Sketch and Sticky Notes, although those are independent of the build.

 

As always, you can grab today's build via Windows Update. If you're not on the Dev channel yet, you can enroll by going to the Windows Insider Program tab in Settings.

 

 

Microsoft releases Windows 10 build 20175 to the Dev channel

 

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Here's what's fixed, improved, and still broken in Windows 10 build 20175

As it does every Wednesday, Microsoft has released its weekly build of Windows 10 to Insiders enrolled in the Dev channel, this time bringing the build number up to 20175. The new build has a couple of new features, including improvements to pinned Edge websites on the taskbar, and a new Eye Contact feature for the Surface Pro X.

 

As usual with these releases, in addition to a couple of new features and changes, Microsoft has also fixed some existing issues with previous builds. Meanwhile, some haven't been fixed yet, and there are some brand new ones. Starting with what's been fixed in this build:

• We fixed an issue causing some systems to crash with a HYPERVISOR_ERROR bugcheck.
• We fixed an issue resulting in tiles sometimes flashing unexpectedly in the Start menu when animating
• We fixed an issue where the option the set Alt + Tab to “Windows Only” wasn’t working.
• We fixed an issue that could result in apps unexpectedly appearing black when viewed under Magnifier with a large magnification.
• We fixed an issue that could result in some stutter when gaming.
• We fixed an issue resulting in Narrator not working with touch when touching a XAML item.
• We fixed an issue resulting in Search not closing after selecting certain items in the search results.
• We fixed an issue resulting in flickers when logging in.
• We fixed an issue resulting in fonts not displaying correctly in some apps in the last two flights.
• We fixed an issue that could result in Settings crashing if it’d been opened but minimized to the Windows Update page, and then you navigated to another settings page by clicking a URI.
• We fixed an issue where clicking a link to System would result in an empty and unclosable Control Panel instance.

As for the known issues:

• We’re working on a fix for an issue where some Microsoft Store games protected with Easy Anti-Cheat may fail to launch.
• We’re looking into reports of the update process hanging for extended periods of time when attempting to install a new build.
• If you are impacted by an issue where when pressing space while using the Korean IME in Edge and Chrome the last character was deleted, this has been fixed in Chromium as part of Bug 1099125. We’ll be removing this from the known issues with the next flight.
• We’re working on a fix for an issue where the min/max/close buttons are stuck in their original positions after resizing a UWP app. If you move the app window the position should update.
• We’re investigating reports that the new taskbar experience described above isn’t working for some pinned sites.
• We’re working on a fix for an issue where sometimes the “close all windows” action in the taskbar doesn’t close not all of the open tabs
• We’re working on a fix to enable live preview for pinned site tabs.
• We’re working on enabling the new taskbar experience for existing pinned sites. In the meantime, you can unpin the site from the taskbar, remove it from the edge://apps page, and then re-pin the site.
• We’re working on a fix for an issue where pinned sites don’t show all open tabs for a domain. In the meantime, you can fix this by pinning the site’s homepage rather than a specific page (e.g. pin microsoft.com rather than microsoft.com/windows).
• We’re working on a fix for an issue where Alt + Tabbing to a browser tab sometimes moves the previously active browser tab to the front of the Alt + Tab list as well.

While some of the recent builds have been picking up more significant changes to the operating system, it could be a long while before these changes make it to a public release of Windows 10. Not only is 20H2 - the update coming later this year - going to be a minor one, there may not be a 21H1 update at all.

 

According to a recent report by ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft may opt to instead release Windows 10X in the spring of 2021, and make the spring the target date for future Windows 10X feature updates. That would mean that feature updates for regular Windows 10 will start arriving in the fall, with each of the operating systems entering an annual update cycle, rather than the current semi-annual one.

 

 

Here's what's fixed, improved, and still broken in Windows 10 build 20175

 

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Microsoft releases ISO images for Windows 10 build 20175

 

Today, Microsoft released Windows 10 Insider Preview build 20175 to the Dev channel, introducing a few new features. It also released new ISO images for the same build, and this is actually pretty significant.

 

As we noted yesterday, any build that's older than build 20170 is set to expire on July 31. That means that if your PC is on build 20161, you really need to upgrade. In build 20170, the expiration date was changed to January 31, but this build had a block in place for AMD-based PCs, so it wasn't a candidate for an ISO image.

 

That's where build 20175 comes in. The previous ISO that was made available was build 20150, and obviously, Microsoft doesn't want users clean-installing a build that's about to expire.

 

You might also be able to use this ISO if you switched from the Dev channel to the Beta channel at some point. If you switched to a lower channel, then you're simply not getting updates, and if you're on a build that's about to expire, you either need to clean install a newer build, or temporarily switch back to the Dev channel for a new build.

 

If you want to download the new ISO, you can grab it here.

 

 

Microsoft releases ISO images for Windows 10 build 20175