Erik Moreau

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Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25281

Hi all, last Thusday Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25281 to the Dev Channel. Notepad is getting Tabs, currently rolling out to devices in the dev channel. Dedicated Blog Post Snipping Tool is running into a strange issue when using deffent DPI scaled monitors, the resulting snip might be missing a part in the resulting …

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Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25276

Hi all, Last Thursday Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25276 to the Dev Channel. A strange issue affecting only a few upgrades is a very long wait at a little over 64% complete, is feels like the update is just stuck but if you give it time the upgrade completes without error. It happened to …

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Deleted shortcuts by Attack Surface Reduction rule

Yesterday, January 13th an unintentional impact was triggered by a pattern update (1.381.2140.0) to users that had the ASR rule “Block Win32 API calls from Office macro” set to block mode. The impact was hard to miss, shortcuts pinned to taskbar & in the start menu went missing. The best thing to do was change …

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Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25272

Hi all, Happy 2023 !, last Thursday Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25272 to the Dev Channel, the 1st Insider release of the new year! My 1st impression after upgrade was ‘this feels faster’ than before… hard to quantify but overall performance & response seems even faster than with previous builds Startup pane in Task …

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Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25267

Hi all, Last Wednesday Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25267 to the Dev Channel. [Changes and Improvements] [Search on the Taskbar] [Windows Security] Fixes [General] [Taskbar & System Tray] [Search on the Taskbar] The fixes only apply for Windows Insiders who received one of the different treatments for how search looks on the taskbar that …

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Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25262

Hi all, Last Friday Microsoft Released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25262 to the Dev Channel. At 1st only my devices not connected to a Domain or Azure AD got the update, by Saturday morning that issue was resolved The December Bug Bash is on (through to 11:59pm PST December 12th), check your Feedback Hub / …

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Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25252

Hi all, last Monday after a delay due to the holidays Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25252 to the Dev Channel. This build adds the option of choice to the taskbar search icon behavior, a welcomed update for most After testing the options my personal favorite is the ‘Search box’ option like the experience …

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Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25247

Hi all, last Friday Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25247 to the Dev Channel. We had to wait a while for a new build, lots of new stuff to make up for it 🙂 Search in Task Manager is here the function I didn’t know I was missing it will save so much time! The …

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Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25236

Hi all, Last Wednesday Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25236 to the Dev Channel + a Servicing Pipeline test on Friday (25236.1010) All smooth updates here on the build & the pipeline test. I love the snap assist functionality of Windows 11, a small issue showed up last build when dragging some apps from …

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Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25231

Hi all, last Thursday Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25231 to the Dev Channel. Using Windows Reset still causes strange issues with Windows Security app & Windows Terminal, if you run in to this a clean install or waiting for the next build fixes it. (Feedbackhub: https://aka.ms/AAii4mv) Changes and Improvements [General] The change that began …

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