Windows 11 build 23419

Windows 11 build 23419 is an Insider Preview build of Nickel, the 22H2 development semester of Windows as a service. It was released to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel on 22 March 2023.

Shell

 * The ability to display seconds in the system clock on the taskbar, previously implemented in build 23403, has been rolled out to a subset of users.
 * The small shield overlay to system tray's VPN icon will follow system accent color.
 * The "Recommended" section in the Start menu has been renamed to "For you". This change is only available to a subset of users.
 * A new Bing Chat button and highlight has been implemented to the search box on the taskbar. This change is only available to a subset of users who sign in with a Microsoft account and get access to the new Bing preview. It can be toggled on manually by enabling the  and   velocity IDs.
 * The ability to show website recommendations from browsing history in Start menu has been added (toggleable via Personalization > Start in the Settings app). This feature is disabled by default, but can be toggled on manually by enabling the  velocity ID.

File Explorer

 * The Home page in Windows App SDK-based File Explorer has been redesigned based on XAML. This feature is disabled by default, but can be toggled on manually by enabling the following velocity IDs:

38664959 (FERecommendations)

40064642 (FERecommendationsUdk) 40729001 (WASDKInFileExplorer) 41070380 41076133 (XAMLFEHome) 42105254 42295138 (XAMLFolderViewSupport)


 * The performance of loading File Explorer in the case where there's a disconnected network drive visible in the navigation pane has been improved.

Settings

 * The new dedicated page for viewing USB 4 domains under Bluetooth & devices > USB, initially implemented in build 25314, has been rolled out.
 * The new button control for startup app items under App > Startup, initially implemented in build 25247, has been rolled out.
 * Several troubleshooters under System > Troubleshoot have been redirected to the new Get Help troubleshooting platform.

Task Manager
The ability to generate a live kernel dump in Task Manager, initially introduced in build 25188 and previously rolled out in build 25276, has been added.

Input
The changes to cloud and integrated search suggestions in Simplified Chinese IME, initially introduced in build 25217, have been implemented.

Miscellaneous

 * The ability to open Snipping Tool by pressing PrtScn has been added (toggleable via Accessibility > Keyboard in the Settings app.)
 * The ability to open Snipping Tool's new screen snipping UI by pressing ⊞ Win has been added. This feature is disabled by default, but can be toggled on manually by enabling the  velocity ID.
 * The performance impact of startup apps has been reduced in order to improve the experience on logon after booting up.
 * Virtual Memory ranges which are marked by a  will be added to kernel-generated minidumps after a bugcheck.

Taskbar

 * Fixed an issue that was causing the show hidden icons flyout to open behind things like OneNote flyout and live captions.
 * Fixed an issue that was causing  to crash related to drag and drop.
 * Fixed a search crash.

Shell

 * Fixed an issue where dragging content across an open Start menu folder could cause a crash.
 * Fixed an issue that was causing  to crash when opening Home if certain content was visible in the Recent section.

Input
Fixed an issue that was preventing the device from entering modern standby after using voice typing.

Accessibility

 * Fixed an issue that was causing Narrator to read the position before the name on system tray icons.
 * Fixed an issue that was causing the redesigned in-app help page in Voice access to not include all commands and the supplementary information accurately.
 * Fixed the issue that was causing live captions to not work for Chinese Traditional on ARM64 devices.

Task Manager
Fixed an issue where some of the details in the Performance page wouldn't display properly until users resized the window or changed pages back and forth.

File Explorer

 * The access keys in the XAML context menu may appear inconsistently if no button is pressed. Pressing a button will cause them to reappear.
 * The following issues will only apply if the file recommendations feature is enabled:
 * Clicking on the Share command may bring up the Windows share sheet (non-OneDrive).
 * Clicking on the "Open File Location" command may pop an error dialog.
 * Clicking on the "Remove from list" command may result in no actions.

Settings

 * When adding a language via the Language & Region page, the installation progress may become hidden, and users may not see install completion for enhanced speech recognition.
 * The Language & Region page may not offer the necessary speech recognition language support for live captions for up to an hour after first login.

Live captions

 * The enhanced speech recognition support may not be installed correctly through the Language & Region page in the Settings app on ARM64 devices.
 * Captioning performance may be degraded in non-English languages and missing out-of-language filtering in non-English (United States) languages.

Safe mode

 * Quick Settings and date/time clock on the taskbar may be missing due to the  service not running.
 * Clicking Bluetooth & devices and Personalization pages may crash the Settings app due to an overrun of a stack-based buffer.