14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft’s most recent preview build for Windows insiders in the Fast ring includes improvements for the Task Manager, which has slowly but surely become one of the essential features for more and more Windows 10 users.
Windows 10 build 18898, which is a preview of the Windows 10 update projected to launch in the spring of 2020, is part of the 20H1 preview branch and can be downloaded right now from Windows Update as part of the Insider program.
The biggest change in this build is the addition of disk type in the Task Manager Performance tab, as Windows 10 can now distinguish HDDs from SSDs and other disk types.
“A small, but perhaps convenient change — you’ll now be able to see the disk type (e.g. SSD) for each disk listed in Task Manager’s performance tab. This is particularly helpful in cases where you have multiple disks listed, so you can differentiate between them,” Dona Sarkar, head of the Windows Insider program, said in the release notes of this new build.
Other fixes in this build
This is the only new feature in this build, but Microsoft has also fixed several other bugs, including an issue causing explorer.exe to crash due to what the company says was a problem with pcshell.dll. Unsurprisingly, there are additional improvements for Japanese users too.
“We fixed an issue where updated Japanese IME settings would be never applied in certain desktop bridge apps, which could result in prediction candidates being shown even after they’d been disabled in the IME settings. For those who’ve already been impacted by this, you’ll need to reset the app Settings > Apps > > Advanced Options > Reset before you see the results of this fix,” Microsoft says.
The full changelog is embedded in the box after the jump, and you can install this build from Windows Update right now if you’re part of the Fast ring.