What you need to know
- Windows 10 build 20190 is rolling out now for Dev channel Insiders.
- This update adds a new post-update experience to highlight changes.
- Dev channel Insiders can grab this update now via Windows Update.
Microsoft is rolling out a fresh update for Windows 10 Insiders on the Dev channel today, and there are some interesting changes afoot. The biggest addition is a new post-update experience that makes it much clearer what was added or changed after a major update. Elsewhere, there are some handy new graphics settings, along with the usual batch of fixes and improvements.
This build comes in at build number 20190 and is available via Windows Update now. Here's a full look at what's new:
- New post-update experience: We know that it doesn't always feel clear what changed with a major update, or even how you can learn about and try out new features and improvements. This means that updates can feel time consuming without real benefit to you, and we want to change that. We're introducing a new first run experience via the Tips app that highlights the most exciting changes on your PC after a major Windows 10 feature update is installed. After installing this build, Insiders will see the Tips app is launched highlight some of the most recent new features from the latest Insider Preview builds in the Dev Channel. To see this experience on your device, make sure the "Show me the Windows welcome experience" checkbox in Settings > System > Notifications & actions is checked.
Improved Graphics Settings experience:
- While this isn't a new feature all together, we have made significant changes based on customer feedback that will benefit our customers' Graphics Settings experience. We have made the following improvements:
- We've updated the Graphics Settings to allow users to specify a default high performance GPU.
- We've updated the Graphics Settings to allow users to pick a specific GPU on a per application basis.
- If you're a power user that has multiple high performance GPUs and would like to specify which of those GPUs should be the one used for high performance uses cases, you can now do that by going to Settings > System > Display > Graphics settings or Settings > Gaming > Graphics settings.
- Based on feedback, we're updating the new Japanese IME to support switching between Hiragana and Katakana by using CTRL + CAPSLOCK and ALT + CAPSLOCK (respectively), as was supported with the previous version.
- We fixed a Windows Subsystem for Linux 1 related error that would output: 'The I/O operation has been aborted because of either a thread exit or an application request'. Please see this Github issue for details.
- We fixed an issue that could result in explorer.exe being unresponsive on touch-capable devices after resuming from hibernation.
- We fixed an issue with the new search box in the default apps settings pages, where search results would appear to draw on top of one another when deleting characters from the search box.
- We fixed an issue where if you switched to an English keyboard using WIN + Space and then switched back to the Chinese Pinyin IME, typed punctuations would Chinese even if "Use English punctuations when in Chinese input mode" was enabled.
- We fixed an issue where when Narrator was enabled it could result in the on-screen PIN pad unexpectedly appearing when focus is set to the login screen.
- We fixed an issue resulting in Features on Demand (FOD) failing to enable with error 0x8000FFFF in recent builds. This is also believed to be the root cause for some Insiders finding that the sfc /scannow command would repeatedly fail citing a pending reboot.
- We fixed and issue that could result in the calling window (for example, Microsoft Edge) hanging if an authentication prompt was raised and then not interacted with and timing out.
For more on this release, you can check out Microsoft's full release notes, including a look at the known issues in this build. Otherwise, Windows Insiders on the Dev channel can grab this build now via Windows Update.
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