Windows 11 build 22509 brings improved Start menu layout and more

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After taking a week off, Microsoft is dorsum with some other Windows 11 Insider Preview build for the Dev Channel. Today'south build is 22509, and features a scattering of notable new changes and improvements that are the result of direct feedback from Insiders testing Windows 11 since June. Microsoft is finally calculation a more than adaptive layout to the Kickoff menu, and bringing back the ability to brandish the clock on secondary monitors!

One of Windows 11'south big complaints with the new Outset menu has been that its layout isn't very flexible. In the current shipping build, you lot're stuck with 3 rows of pinned apps, and three rows of contempo documents. In today's build, that's now changing. Users can now configure the Get-go menu to show either more pinned apps, or more recent documents by increasing the size of each area of the Start menu.

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Additionally, Microsoft has responded to another bit of feedback regarding secondary monitors. This build finally allows you to re-enable the clock on extended monitors, a characteristic that was weirdly omitted from the aircraft build of Windows 11. Here's the complete list of changes in today'southward build:

We have been working on a collection of improvements to web browsing with Microsoft Border and Narrator. Specifically, typing in edit fields should now exist faster, when navigating around the spider web more useful information is provided, and lastly yous will have a more consequent navigation feel with Narrator.
Starting in this build, you lot tin can right-click on Start to chop-chop access Start settings and choose the "More than pins" or "More recommendations" layout pick to prove an extra row of either pins or recommendations, respectively.
When a secondary monitor is connected, your clock and date will now also be displayed on the taskbars of the secondary monitor or monitors for glanceability.
For apps that send notifications for calls, reminders, or alarms that leverage Windows notifications in the Bone, 3 high priority notifications will now exist shown as stacked and shown at the aforementioned time. This means at whatsoever given time, y'all might encounter upwardly to 4 notifications at the same time – three high priority notifications and 1 normal priority notification.
We have moved the advanced sharing settings (such as Network discovery, File and printer sharing, and public folder sharing) to a new page in Settings app under Advanced Network Settings.
Nosotros've made some updates to the device specific pages under Printers & Scanners in Settings to show more information about your printer or scanner straight in Settings when available.
Some of the entry points for network and devices settings in Control Panel will now redirect to the corresponding pages in Settings.
Added a new option to the Installed Apps page in Settings to sort the list from Name (Z to A), and accordingly, updated the previous "Alphabetically" selection to now be called Name (A to Z).
We'll now remember if you turn on Bluetooth or Wi-Fi while in airplane mode. Next fourth dimension you use airplane manner, the radios will reverberate your preference and stay on to make it easier to keep listening to headphones and remain connected while travelling.
Windows Sandbox at present supports reboot inside of its virtualized environment (for example, if you lot were to click the Restart option under the Power push button in Start).

At that place's likewise a number of new fixes as well:

The Start, Search, Task View, Widgets, and Chat icons in the Taskbar should no longer be unexpectedly large when the system scaling is prepare to 125%.
Pressing the Windows cardinal plus (the number corresponding to an app icon'due south position in the Taskbar) should cycle now through the app's windows if you repeatedly printing the number instead of stopping at the last window.
When Narrator focus is set to the Job View push and the Desktops flyout appears, Narrator will now let yous know information near the Desktops.
Stock-still an explorer.exe crash some Insiders were experiencing in contempo flights related to updating badges in the Taskbar.
Handwriting should be working over again now when the language is prepare to Chinese.
Mitigated an issue related to the mouse that was causing some Insiders to experience a bugcheck during hibernation sometimes in recent flights (making it appear as if the estimator had rebooted).
Updated the Chinese Simplified IME candidates to exist center aligned with the candidate window tiptop has been customized.
Fixed touch keyboard invocation in PowerShell and then it should work now.
Hovering your mouse back and forth between unlike desktops in Chore View will no longer outcome in the displayed thumbnails and content expanse unexpectedly shrinking.
CompactOverlay should be working again in this build (aka the choice that some apps use to create a small always on top window).
Fixed a race condition that was causing explorer.exe to crash sometimes when closing a snap group of 3 or more windows in Task View.
Removed the unexpected tilt blitheness when clicking down on a corner of the New Desktop button.
Fabricated a tweak to address an underlying upshot that was causing the context card to blitheness down to the mouse instead of abroad from the mouse when right clicking a Desktop in Task View.
Fixed a high hitting DWM crash in recent flights.
Stock-still some overlapping text for certain languages on the Installed Apps page in Settings.
Clicking the Uninstall push button when using the Installed Apps page in grid view volition now bear witness a confirmation dialog.
Changed the new ms-settings:installed-apps URI to at present be ms-settings:appsfeatures, to address scenarios where existing links look the latter to lead to the list of installed apps, for example, when selecting the App Settings option later right clicking a UWP app in Start.
Fixed an issue that was causing some Insiders to meet error 0x8007001f when trying to upgrade to recent Dev Aqueduct builds.
Fixed an issue where some PCs are unable to install new builds, or other updates with an error code 0x80070002.
Fixed an issue causing some devices to gyre back with error code 0xc1900101-0x4001c when installing new builds.
Did some work to assist accost an issue leading to the Wi-Fi connection getting lost subsequently resuming from slumber.