Windows 11 build 22543
Build of Nickel | |
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Architecture | AMD64, ARM64 |
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Compiled | 2022-01-22 |
Timebomb | 2022-09-15 (+236 days) |
About | |
SE (N) Pro (N, Single Language, China) Pro Education (N) Pro for Workstations (N) Education (N) Enterprise (Evaluation, G, GN, N, N Evaluation) IoT Enterprise Team | |
Windows 11 build 22543 is the nineteenth 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 27 January 2022.
New features and changes[edit | edit source]
Narrator[edit | edit source]
- The natural voices feature has been added, along with two available voices, "Jenny" and "Aria".
- The feature is currently only available in the English (United States) language.
- Several keyboard commands have been added and updated.
Keystroke combinations | Description |
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Narrator key+Alt+- | Move to the previous voice in Narrator's voice settings combo box. |
Narrator key+Alt++ | Move to the next voice in Narrator's voice settings combo box. |
Narrator key+Alt+[ | Move to the previous punctuation reading mode. |
Narrator key+Alt+] | Move to the next punctuation reading mode. |
Features[edit | edit source]
The updated input switcher, initially introduced in build 22518, has been rolled out to all users.
Settings[edit | edit source]
- The Disks & Volume and Storage Spaces subpages under System page has been updated.
- A new "Storage pool" subpage has been added under Storage Spaces page for managing storage pools.
- The setting for turning off the startup sound will persist across upgrades.
Shell[edit | edit source]
- The media controls on the lock screen has been updated in order to match the design shown for the media controls in Quick Settings.
- The option is only available to a subset of users, but can be enabled by running the following command with ViveTool from an elevated Command Prompt window:
vivetool addconfig 35674037 2
- The option is only available to a subset of users, but can be enabled by running the following command with ViveTool from an elevated Command Prompt window:
- When resizing the snapped window layout, the other snapped windows will go out-of-focus overlaid with the relevant app icon on top of the acrylic background.
- The WinUI 3 ring-shaped progress spinner, which introduced in Windows 10 build 19587, is now used by default on the update screen.
- The charging animation of battery icon on the taskbar has been updated.
- The Focus Assist icon in the Settings app and Notification Center, has been changed from
to
/
.
- This change to Notification Center is disabled by default, but can be enabled by running the following command with ViveTool from an elevated Command Prompt window:
vivetool addconfig 36183526 2
- This change to Notification Center is disabled by default, but can be enabled by running the following command with ViveTool from an elevated Command Prompt window:
- The legacy context menu has been updated with lower corner radius.
- A confirmation flyout has been added when pressing ⊞ Win+Alt+K to mute a Microsoft Teams call.
- A level indicator has been added to the flyout for the hardware indicators for volume.
- The underline indicating the active desktop in Task View will follow customized accent color instead of being blue.
- A new option "Select default microphone" has been added to voice typing's settings menu.
- The option is disabled by default, but can be enabled by running the following command with ViveTool from an elevated Command Prompt window:
vivetool addconfig 37041514 2
- The option is disabled by default, but can be enabled by running the following command with ViveTool from an elevated Command Prompt window:
Miscellaneous[edit | edit source]
A new PowerShell module and several commands have been added to provision language and language related features.
Command(s) | Description |
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Install-Language
|
Install a language on the device. |
Get-InstalledLanguage
|
Get a list of the installed languages on the device. |
Set-SystemPreferredUILanguage
|
Set a language as the system preferred UI language. |
Get-SystemPreferredUILanguage
|
Get the value of the current system preferred language. |
Uninstall-Language
|
Uninstall a language on the device. |
Bugfixes[edit | edit source]
General[edit | edit source]
- Fixed an issue that was causing Task Manager to crash when attempting to access the Performance tab.
- Fixed an issue where certain characters (like characters with umlauts) weren't allowed when naming the device in OOBE.
- Addressed an issue which was leading to OneNote crashing in recent builds when trying to open pages with inserted PDFs.
- Mitigated an issue that was leading to unresponsive UI after enabling HDR.
Shell[edit | edit source]
- Fixed an issue which was leading to the cursor unexpectedly disappearing in certain apps.
- Fixed a crash in Quick Settings when opening the input switcher from there.
- Fixed issues where tabbing through Quick Settings may no longer set focus to an invisible element.
- Fixed an issue that was sometimes causing the media controls above Quick Settings to be off-screen.
- Mitigated a WER issue which was leading to DWM crashes in recent builds.
Settings[edit | edit source]
- Mitigated an issue leading to Settings getting stuck in a suspended state and couldn't be launched.
- Fixed the icon in the notification that shows if users have chosen to postpone finishing setting up the device.
- Addressed an issue which was leading to the candidate window customization being unexpectedly missing from Text Input subpages for Chinese Simplified IME users sometimes.
Bugs and quirks[edit | edit source]
- Information such as temperature may not show on a left-aligned taskbar.
- The Narrator voice may not be automatically switched after downloading Microsoft Aria (Natural) from the voice selection combo box.
- Restarting Narrator may solve this issue.
- The new Focus Assist icon is oddly used in the Sleep Mode option.
- The IME candidate window may not show up on a UAC prompt.
- When doing a clean installation for Pro SKU, the OOBE may loop back to country selection page after setting username and password. It can be bypassed by the following methods:
- Press Ctrl+⇧Shift+F3 to reboot Windows into Sysprep audit mode.
- Use an answer file on top of an Windows installation image to perform an unattended setup.
- Clicking on the "More Keyboard settings" link in the input switcher may lead
explorer.exe
to crash. - Quick Settings and date/time clock on the taskbar may be missing in Safe mode.
- Clicking Bluetooth & devices and Personalization pages may crash the Settings app in Safe mode due to an overrun of a stack-based buffer.