14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has released a new preview build of Windows 11, and just as expected, the focus has been entirely on addressing performance issues and resolving the remaining bugs ahead of the production launch scheduled to take place on October 5.
As a result, the latest preview build comes with fixes for several important Blue Screen of Death errors on Windows 11, while also resolving some Start menu issues in the operating system.
For example, if your computer previously encountered a fatal crash when resuming from hibernation, this BSOD should no longer occur after installing the new preview build, Microsoft says. At the same time, the company explains it was aware of a glitch causing computers to hit a BSOD when trying to install a new Windows 11 build, and after the latest update, this error should no longer be there.
If you were running Windows 11 preview builds on a Surface Pro X, there’s a chance you also encountered a BSOD, but Microsoft promises the error is gone after the latest update.
Start menu improvements
As far as the Start menu is concerned, the Redmond-based software giant has once again added the System as an option in the Windows + X menu on Start, while also allowing users to press the down arrow to navigate to the pinned apps and not to the username.
“[We] mitigated an issue where when a large number of apps were installed, the Start menu might get stuck with no app icons showing (only app name) after a DPI change. This change is also believed to help improve Start launch reliability on secondary monitors in mixed DPI scenarios. If the accessibility option “Always show scrollbars” is enabled, switching to the All apps list will no longer cause the scrollbar to escape the window boundaries during the transition animation,” Microsoft says.
The new preview build is now live for users in the Dev channel.