Windows 11 gets a fix for a nasty CPU bug that slowed down your PC
In fact, several vital bug fixes have been applied in a new preview build
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Windows 11insiders have witnessed the release of a new test build which fixes some nasty bugs, including a couple pertaining to File Explorer, and it adds some minor new features to boot.
Windows 11(22H2) build 22621.898 has hit the release preview channel, and there’s an important bug fix for a problem with File Explorer that triggered highCPUusage, slowing your PC down, which sometimes occurred when opening a file.
Another issue, where File Explorer seized up completely when closing context menus and menu items, has also been cured.
There are a bunch of other bug fixes besides these, as you might imagine, with the full list provided inMicrosoft’sblog post.
As for new features for build 22621.898, there are some small but useful additions here, including combining Windows Spotlight with Themes under Personalization settings (making Spotlight easier to find and enable, Microsoft explains).
Furthermore,OneDriveusers will now get storage alerts telling them when they’re running out of online storage space on the Systems page (in Settings). There’s also the ability to buy more storage from within the Settings menu, too.
Microsoft also made a small extra change, now telling users the total amount of storage available from all their OneDrive subscriptions combined.
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Note that all these elements are still in testing, but will be coming to the release version of Windows 11 before too long, with any luck.
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Those are some useful extra additions, but nothing major – the main focus here is a lot of bug squashing, and some vital work on that front, too. File Explorer is the central piece of the Windows UI, so it’s good to see that CPU slowdown issue is now fixed – and indeed the problem which was causing File Explorer to fall over completely (never a good thing, of course).
We’re looking forward to some bigger changes coming to Windows 11, aside from smoothing over bugs, and indeed we just heard about one that we’ve been keenly awaiting for some time – theability to ungroup apps on the taskbar.
In other words, a ‘never combine’ option that’s always been present onWindows 10, but was dropped for Windows 11 for some unfathomable reason. That’s a big step forward, at least in our book, though that said, it should’ve been a choice from the get-go (fewer options never being a good thing, generally speaking).
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Darren is a freelancer writing news and features for TechRadar (and occasionally T3) across a broad range of computing topics including CPUs, GPUs, various other hardware, VPNs, antivirus and more. He has written about tech for the best part of three decades, and writes books in his spare time (his debut novel - ‘I Know What You Did Last Supper’ - was published by Hachette UK in 2013).
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