News/Info Here's what's fixed, improved, and still broken in Windows 10 build 20161

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Here's what's fixed, improved, and still broken in Windows 10 build 20161
By João Carrasqueira @indospot · Jul 1, 2020

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It's Wednesday, and that means it's time for a new Windows 10 build to be released to Insiders in the Dev channel - the new name for what was previously called the Fast ring. The build is arriving a little later than usual this week, but we're still getting one, and it includes a few new features, like the new start menu design that was teased a few months ago.
Of course, in addition to new features, the build also comes with a list of known issues and bug fixes that might be useful to know about before jumping in. In terms of fixes, there's one for a bugcheck that may have occurred when using an Xbox controller, among many others:

• We fixed an issue resulting in Insiders experiencing bug checks when connecting and interacting with an Xbox controller.
• We’ve fixed an issue causing some games and applications to crash at launch or fail to install.
• We fixed an issue resulting in Microsoft Edge not navigating to websites when WDAG was enabled on the last 2 flights.
• We fixed an issue which was increasing log off time in recent builds.
• We fixed an issue with the Chinese Pinyin IME where after setting your preferred IME toolbar orientation, you may not be able to change it again after rebooting your PC.
• We fixed an issue causing Reset this PC to always show the error “There was a problem resetting this PC” when launched from Settings in the last few builds.
• We fixed an issue resulting in some Bluetooth devices no longer showing their battery level in Settings in the last few builds.
• We fixed an issue where Settings would crash if you went to Settings > Privacy > Microphone while a win32 app was recording audio.
• We fixed an issue where if Sound Settings showed “no input devices found” in the input dropdown and you clicked it, then Settings would crash.
• We fixed an issue where when adding a printer, the dialog might crash if you navigated through to the “Add a printer driver” dialog in recent builds.
• We fixed a graphics related issue resulting in some users experiencing bugchecks.

Of course, the build isn't without its known issues, and you'll want to know about them before you grab the update:

• We’re working on a fix for an issue causing some systems to crash with a HYPERVISOR_ERROR bugcheck.
• We’re looking into reports of the update process hanging for extended periods of time when attempting to install a new build.
• We’re aware of an issue where Notepad might fail to reopen files which were automatically saved during a PC restart (if that option is enabled in Settings). Documents can be recovered from %localappdata%\Notepad.We’re investigating reports of the screen becoming dimmer after upgrading to the previous build.
• We’re aware of an issue where Task Manager reports 0.00 GHz CPU usage in the Performance tab.
• We’re investigating reports that when you press space while using the Korean IME in certain apps, the last character is deleted.
• We’re working to fine tune the tile animations in Start to avoid flashes of color.

This is the third build available to Insiders that's part of the Iron development branch, which means it's preparing the 21H1 feature update, to be released in the first half of next year. That's why we're starting to see more significant changes now, and even more are likely to come between now and the end of the year, when the update is likely to be finalized. The 20H2 update is being tested in the Beta channel (previously Slow ring), and it will be available to everyone later this year without much in the way of new features.

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