Microsoft now has the Windows – 10 – Insider Preview Build 21286 released. Among other things, the taskbar has been revised here. With the update, the current weather data can now be called up in addition to the latest news. It is also possible to further personalize the feed. But Microsoft has also worked hard to adjust the storage space settings. With the new preview build, storage pools and storage spaces can be created. According to the US company, however, initially only a subset of insiders in the Dev Channel will receive the said function. This is to help identify possible problems with the feature more quickly. If the feature does not work as expected, this could affect the stability as well as the performance.

With DiskUsage, the company presents a new command line tool. With this program, files and folders can be identified in the future that occupy large amounts of memory on the hard drive. With the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) it is now possible to execute specific Linux commands when starting WSL. The /etc/wsl.conf file must be adapted accordingly for this.

In addition, the automatic setting of the time zone in Windows has been improved. In the future, users will receive a corresponding message when the time zone has been changed.

Fixed errors:

• We fixed an issue causing some Insiders to see a popup that says “Your PC ran into a problem and will automatically restart” after logging in to Windows with either an Azure Active Directory or Active Directory account on Build 21277.
• We fixed an issue where no drives appeared under Settings> System> Storage> Manage Disks and Volumes.

We fixed an issue resulting in some printers getting stuck on connecting when added from Settings.

We fixed an issue that could result in sometimes unexpectedly being signed out of apps and websites after rebooting your PC.

We fixed an issue where the Windows Security icon would sometimes be unexpectedly large in the context menu when shift-right- clicking taskbar icons.

We fixed an issue that could result in MediaTranscoder hanging when transcoding certain files.

We fixed an issue where audio playing from UWP apps wasn’t ducking after pressing the microphone icon to start Cortana listening.

We fixed an issue that could result in VPN entries in the network flyout getting stuck at Action Needed until you pressed Cancel and Connect again.

We fixed an issue impacting touch targeting when resizing windows using touch.

We’ve made some fixes to our emoji keyword search results based on feedback, including adding a new keyword so that typing “lgbtq” will now return the rainbow flag emoji. Please continue sharing feedback with us in the Feedback Hub under Input and Language> Emoji Panel.

We fixed an issue that could result in the Read Aloud options in Magnifier being unexpectedly greyed out.

We fixed an issue where the “Help make Narrator better” toggle in Narrator Settings was disabled for Insiders.

We fixed an issue so that Narrator will now read Excel cell contents when verbosity is set to 2.

We fixed an issue where Narrator might not announce whether a combo box was in expanded or collapsed state.

We fixed an issue impacting Narrator’s ability to read the names of certain hyperlinks on websites in Microsoft Edge.

We fixed an issue impacting Narrator’s ability to read code windows in Visual Studio.

We fixed an issue for high contrast users that could result in Settings crashing when going to Ease of Access.

Known issues:

• We’re working on a fix for an issue Insiders have reported where certain games like State of Decay 2, or Assassin’s Creed, may hang or crash when launching.
• We’re investigating an issue where Call of Duty: Modern Warfare a nd Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War may not launch starting with this build. If you play these games, you may wish to pause updates until the issue is resolved.

You may experience some rendering / graphic issues after resizing certain app windows. If you minimize all your app windows and open them again it should resolve the issue (Press the Windows key plus D twice).

• We’re investigating an issue where some 32 – bit systems may lose network connection after taking this build. If you are running a 32 – bit version of Windows, you may wish to pause updates until the issue is resolved.
• When Xbox Game Bar is launched from Start or via the Windows key + G when using a text editor, the computer may appear unresponsive. If you encounter this, dismiss the Xbox Game Bar with WIN + G and end the GameBar.exe process from Task Manager.
• Miracast users may experience very low frame rates in this build.
• We’re investigating reports that started with Build 21277 that explorer.exe / the Windows shell would hang and or crash.
• We’re looking into reports of the update process hanging for extended periods of time when attempting to install a new build.
• Aero Shake is disabled in this build. To enable it, you will need to go here in Registry Editor and create a new DWORD entry named DisallowShaking with a value of 0: HKCU Software Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer Advanced
• Live previews for pinned sites aren’t enabled for all Insiders yet, so you may see a gray window when hovering over the thumbnail in the taskbar. We’re continuing to work on polishing this experience.
• We’re working on enabling the new taskbar experience for existing pinned sites. In the meantime, you can unpin the site from the taskbar, remove it from the edge: // apps page, and then re-pin the site.
• Sometimes the news and interests flyout may show as offline even when the user is online.

Users cannot navigate into the news and interests flyout using keyboard.

• In some scenarios, the news and interests flyout may appear empty with no content.
• Sometimes the news and interests flyout cannot be dismissed with touch and pen.
• News and interests uses more taskbar space on the left than expected.