Fixed a few explorer.exe crashes related to using windowing features (snap, ALT + Tab, and Desktops).

Fixed an issue that was causing the touch keyboard to not appear on tablets when tapping the text field if you were to try to reset your PIN from the login screen.

Mitigated an issue that was causing certain apps to hang when trying to drag something with the Shift or Ctrl key held down.

This was particularly noticeable for people that have large Outlook mailboxes.

Fixed a recent issue that was causing the indexer database to become too fragmented, leading to the indexer unexpectedly consuming a large amount of memory and CPU for a prolonged period of time.

Made another adjustment to the command bar underlying logic to help improve performance of command actions in File Explorer.

Renaming files on the desktop is back up and running in this flight.

Addressed an issue that could cause selecting Open With in the context menu to unexpectedly just open the file in certain cases rather than actually opening the Open With dialog.

The context menu icons should be less blurry on systems with multiple monitors with mixed DPI now.

Did some work to help address an issue where in certain areas of the screen the context menu submenus would draw on top of the context menu instead of beside it (for example, if you hovered over New).

Addressed an issue that was causing the context menu to crash for some people if you tried to scroll it.

Addressed an underlying issue that was leading to come unexpected duplication of certain icons in the Taskbar corner.

Tooltips should no longer appear in random places on the Taskbar after sliding your mouse over volume, battery, network, or other icons in the Taskbar corner.

Microsoft also adjusted the names of the sort by options under Settings > Apps > Installed apps to help make them clearer and added a new option to sort from smallest to largest size.

If needed, you can now launch the installed apps settings page under Settings > Apps > Installed apps directly via this URI: ms-settings:installed-apps.

If you’re searching for file type or link types under Settings > Apps > Default apps, we’ll now show a dropdown of options containing your current query without having to first press enter.

Again this feature will roll out only to a smaller group of insiders at first.

Microsoft is starting to implement the snap groups in the ALT+TAB and Task View Menus.

This feature will roll out to a certain group of insiders, so you may not see it right away after the update. Microsoft is starting to roll out a Microphone Icon in the taskbar that will easily help you mute or unmute your microphone during a Microsoft Teams Meeting. In this build we can see a few changes and a lot of fixes to issues reported in the previous build.

In this article we will talk about the newest Windows 11 Insider Preview Build for the Dev Channel which is Build 22494.

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