Also, the notifications design has been updated to include an acrylic background.

In the notification experience, this flight tweaks the Notification Center to improve the visibility of apps names from the notifications. Windows 11 build 22449 also adds a new link to the touch keyboard personalization settings from Typing > Touch Keyboard to help improve discoverability. In Quick Settings, right-clicking on the Bluetooth entry and selecting Settings will open the “Bluetooth & Devices” pages. The Windows startup sound will no longer play after the computer reboots automatically to apply updates. (Microsoft also plans to adopt this new animation in other parts of the OS.) Windows 11 new boot animation When using compression, files will use less bandwidth, therefore taking less time to transfer, but at the cost of some additional processor usage during transfers.Īs part of the boot experience, the startup will now show a progressive ring animation instead of an animated circle of dots. The new feature removes the need to compress a file manually with an application, copy it, then uncompress on the destination machine. In a nutshell, SMB compression is a feature that allows a user or application to request compression of files as they transfer over the network. Windows 11 build 22449, according to the company, makes changes to the SMB compression algorithm that was previously introduced for Windows 11 so that if compression is requested, the file will always try to compress during a network transfer. This is the first preview the company is releasing for testers in the active development branch (RS_PRERELEASE), which means that any features or improvements are not linked to any specific release of the OS.

Build 22449 introduces new boot animation, SMB compression tweaks, and settings improvements.Īs part of the next feature update of Windows 11, Microsoft is now making available build 22449 in the Dev Channel of the Windows Insider Program.

Changes in the flight aren’t tied to any specific release of Windows 11.

Windows 11 build 22449 releases in the Dev Channel.

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