Windows 10 Insider Preview 14942 Brings New Features for PC

Microsoft has released a new Windows 10 Insider Preview build from the Redstone 2 branch. The latest Windows ten Preview build 14942 is now alive for PC Insiders in the Fast ring. Similar to the final few builds, today's release is also only rolled out for PC Insiders, and non to Windows ten Mobile (which did receive 14936). Still, it does finally bring some new features to the operating organization, unlike the past few builds that focused on issues fixes.

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Windows Update in the latest build is now an actual app. This ways you lot can now set notification settings and set up custom ringtones, and do other settings specific to app notifications. Microsoft has too added a new ability that will let you to hide the app list in Start Menu. The company has also said the touchpad experience on Windows 10 will now be much improved, and the Photos app is also refined.

Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14942 for PC

Hither's what'southward new in Windows ten Insider Preview Redstone 2 14942 available for PC Fast ring Insiders.

Hibernate app listing on Start: Nosotros are releasing a new characteristic that enables you to plummet the app list in the Beginning carte du jour. This has been a top feedback request from Windows Insiders. You can effort it out by going to Settings > Personalization > Start and turning on "Hide app listing in Beginning menu". windows 10 14942

Photos app update:With the latest Photos app update on your PC, the Photos app on your PC is now more than cute and easier to navigate!

Plus, the Photos app is now available on your Xbox One!Show off a slideshow of all your OneDrive photos in your living room. Simply make certain y'all are signed in with your Microsoft account to encounter all your OneDrive photos on the large screen.

New Windows Update icon:We have introduced a new Windows Update icon to match the remainder of the new iconography in Windows 10. Afterward installing this build, you lot will see the new icon when Windows Update notifications appear and via Action Centre. You tin also manage notifications from Windows Update via Settings > Organisation > Notifications.

Refining your precision touchpad experience:Based on the feedback we have received, nosotros have made some adjustments to our gesture and click detection on precision touchpads. This includes enhancing detection and disambiguation of left and correct clicks, making two finger taps and clicks a bit easier, reducing false positives in our two-finger tap detection and improving our compression to zoom detection. Nosotros take likewise made algorithm changes in an effort to reduce inadvertent zooming when panning. If you have a precision touchpad on your device, delight accept the opportunity attempt out with this build and let us know how it feels with these changes.

There are several other characteristic improvements and bug fixes that today's release has brought in:

Grade field navigation in Narrator
Expanding the Active Hours default range
Service hosts are split into separate processes on PCs with 3.5 GB+ of RAM
Improving the PC upgrade experience
- after upgrading from 14942, if an IT-Pro has de-provisioned an app from your Bone prototype (and you haven't reinstalled it yourself), that provisioning status will at present be preserved after upgrade, and the app volition non reinstall.

Known issues in Windows 10 14942 PC

Insiders doing web development may find themselves their local intranet server unreachable, as service host separation will get out the IIS World Wide Web Publishing Service (W3Svc) unable to first successfully. To gear up this issue: Run the following from an admin cmd line (or edit the registry appropriately):

REG ADD HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W3SVC /v SvcHostSplitDisable /t REG_DWORD /d i /f
REG ADD HKLM\Organization\CurrentControlSet\Services\WAS /v SvcHostSplitDisable /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
Reboot the system, so that the W3Svc and WAS services share a service host process.

For more details, visit the official proclamation post.