Windows 11 build 23545

10.0.23545.1000.ni_prerelease.230908-1421

Build of Nickel
OS family	Windows 11 (NT 10.0)
Version number	10.0
Build number	23545
Build revision	1000
Architecture	AMD64, ARM64
Build lab	ni_prerelease
Compiled on	2023-09-08
Expiration date
Timebomb	2024-09-15 (+373 days)
SKUs
Home (N, Single Language, China) 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
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Windows 11 build 23545 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 13 September 2023.

New features and changes

Shell

• Clicking on the search highlight gleam in the search box on the taskbar will open a Bing page in Microsoft Edge for the search highlight, and a tooltip will always be shown for the search highlight gleam when hovering over the search box. These changes can be activated manully by enabling the 46111200 velocity staging key.
• The ability to show Microsoft Teams (work or school) contacts and to send files to them directly within the built-in Share window when signing in with an Entra ID (AAD) account has been added.
• The ability to group recently added items into one "Recently added" folder under Start menu's Recommended section has been implemented. This feature is disabled by default, but can be activated manully by enabling the 39146010, 44470355 and 46045587 velocity staging keys.

Settings

The Rename link under System > Nearby sharing has been replaced with a button, and clicking on it will open a dialog for quickly renaming the device for identifing sharing to and from with nearby share, rather than redirecting to System > About. This feature can be activated manually by enabling the 44209225 velocity staging key.

Bugfixes

File Explorer

• Fixed a leak impacting File Explorer's performance over time.
• Fixed an issue that was causing explorer.exe to crash when closing File Explorer.
• Fixed an issue that was causing the address bar, command bar, and context menu to get stuck in the wrong colors when switching between dark and light mode (or a contrast theme).
• Fixed an issue that was causing a bright white flash as content loaded when launching File Explorer in dark theme.
• Fixed an issue that was causing explorer.exe to crash when rapidly opening two File Explorer windows.
• Fixed an issue that was causing explorer.exe to crash when navigating away from the Home page.
• Fixed an issue that was causing explorer.exe to crash when opening the Gallery pages after new images had been added.
• Fixed an issue where the progress wheel in the tab would get stuck showing that File Explorer was loading a folder when the loading had actually already finished.
• Fixed an issue where sorting changes wouldn't persist in folders after navigating away and back.
• Fixed an issue that was causing the icons in tabs to be incorrect.

Shell

• Fixed an issue that was causing icons on the desktop to turn into white generic icons.
• Fixed a high hitting explorer.exe crash impacting taskbar reliability.
• Fixed an issue that was causing the Search flyout on the taskbar to not launch sometimes.
• Fixed an issue where trying to take window mode screenshots was taking screenshots of the entire screen instead of the app in focus.

Input

• Fixed the issue causing Unicode Emoji 15 support and the updated color font format with COLRv1 support to not functional correctly.
• Addressed an issue that was causing the Japanese and Chinese IME candidate windows to not appear after using connected standby due to a crash.
• Fixed a high hitting tabtip.exe crash impacting the ability to type.

Settings

Fixed an issue that was preventing the Settings app from launching properly in Safe mode.

Bugs and quirks

Shell

Some non-system apps under Start menu's All Apps section, such as PWA apps installed via Microsoft Edge, may be labeled as system apps incorrectly.

Windows Copilot

• When pressing Alt+Tab ↹ to switch out of Windows Copilot, users may not switch back into it.
• When first launching or after refreshing Windows Copilot while using Voice access, users may need to use "Show grid" commands to click in the "Ask me anything" box for the first time.

Safe mode

• Quick Settings and date/time clock on the taskbar may be missing due to the Capability Access Manager Service service not running.
• Clicking Bluetooth & devices and Personalization pages may crash the Settings app due to an overrun of a stack-based buffer 0xc0000409.

Gallery

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  Boot screen

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  Start menu

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  The Nearby sharing page in the Settings app

External links

• Official announcement