Windows 11 build 26236
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| OS family | Windows 11 (NT 10.0) |
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| Version number | 10.0 |
| Build number | 26236 |
| Build revision | 5000 |
| Architecture | AMD64, ARM64 |
| Build lab | ge_prerelease |
| Compiled on | 2024-06-07 |
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| Timebomb | 2024-09-15 (+100 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 (Subscription) | |
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Windows 11 build 26236 is a build of Germanium, the 24H2 development semester of Windows as a service. It was released to the Windows Insiders in the Canary Channel on 12 June 2024 alongside its server counterpart.
New features and changes[edit | edit source]
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The new account manager experience in Start menu, initially implemented in build 22635.3500, has been ported to this build.
Settings[edit | edit source]
A new Generative AI subpage has been added under Privacy & security for managing generative AI access. Enabling the 48433719 and 51407079 velocity staging key swill also display the hidden Recent activity section within the page.
Recall[edit | edit source]
A new "Search the web" option has been added to the context menu when right-clicking analyzed texts in snapshots. This feature is disabled by default, but can be activated manually by enabling the 50566956 velocity staging key.
Bugfixes[edit | edit source]
- Fixed an issue that was causing the taskbar to not appear in certain cases.
- Fixed an underlying issue that was causing the preferred audio volume (under System > Sound > Volume mixer in the Settings app) for Microsoft Edge to not persist across restarting the app.
- Fixed the issue that was causing Windows to fail to boot after the initial setup process when performing a clean installation on VMware, VirtualBox and Hyper-V (Gen 2) virtual machines with Secure Boot enabled.
Bugs and quirks[edit | edit source]
- Users may be unable to perform an in-place upgrade to this build via Windows Update in builds 26040, 23620 and earlier due to a deadlock that occurs during the initial preparation process.
- Text on highlighted items in Microsoft Management Console and some of its snap-ins may have a yellow color.
- The colors in the Performance section on Task Manager may not display correctly in dark mode.
Gallery[edit | edit source]
The account manager experience in Start menu
The Generative AI page in the Settings app
