Windows 11 build 23440

Windows 11 build 23440 is an Insider Preview build of Nickel, the 22H2 development semester of Windows as a service. It was released to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel on 19 April 2023, along with build 25346.
== New features and changes ==
=== Shell ===
* The ability to hide the date and time in the system tray has been added, which is togglable via Time & language > Date & time in the Settings app. As part of this change, the notification badges will be shown permanently (show as "0" in grey color when no new notifications available).
* A new Diagnose network problems option has been added to the context menu on network icon in the system tray.
* The desktop icon for Windows Spotlight has been updated.
=== Widgets ===
The invocation logic has been updated to be less likely to accidentally open Widgets when brushing the mouse quickly across the Widgets entry point on the taskbar.
=== Bugfixes ===
==== File Explorer ====
* Fixed an issue where the context menu in Windows App SDK-based File Explorer was opening far away from where the mouse had right-clicked sometimes.
* Fixed an issue that was causing some of the icons in Windows App SDK-based File Explorer and the context menu to be blurry after DPI changes.
* Fixed an issue where the New button in the Windows App SDK-based File Explorer's command bar might not show anything in the dropdown.
* Fixed an issue where pressing and then scroll the mouse wheel won't resize the thumbnails in the Gallery page.
==== Shell ====
* Fixed the issue where right-clicking a file or folder while pressing won't open the legacy context menu in certain cases.
* Fixed a few explorer.exe crashes that were impacting taskbar reliability.
* Fixed an issue where the cursor wasn't displaying correctly in the search box on the taskbar when using an Arabic display language.
* Fixed a ShellExperienceHost.exe crash when disconnecting from another monitor using .
* Fixed an issue where 2FA codes weren't being recognized if they were in parentheses.
==== Input ====
Fixed an issue where the touch keyboard didn't correctly recognize a hardware keyboard was available in some cases.
==== Settings ====
* Fixed the issue that was causing the installation progress of language feature to be hidden under Time & language > Language & region.
* Fixed an issue that was causing the enhanced speech recognition support to not be installed correctly under Time & language > Language & region on ARM64 devices.
==== Task Manager ====
* Fixed the issue where double clicking the title bar won't maximize the window.
* Fixed a Task Manager crash which was impacting in the last couple Nickel builds.
==== Accessibility ====
* Some improvements has been made to how Narrator reads out the recommended files in File Explorer.
* Narrator can now clearly reading out the access keys after pressing .
* Fixed an issue that was causing live captions to crash on first launch due to an issue impacting registry data retrieval.
* Fixed an issue that was causing live captions' Add a language menu icon and label to overlap.
* Fixed an issue that was leaving voice access's window empty after opening.
* Fixed an issue where voice access was crashing when using the command to go to the start of a document.
* Fixed an issue where Narrator's and commands to move to the beginning and end of text weren't working correctly in Microsoft Edge.
== Bugs and quirks ==
=== File Explorer ===
* The access keys in the XAML context menu may appear inconsistently if no button is pressed. Pressing a button will cause them to reappear.
* Clicking on the Share command may bring up the Windows share sheet (non-OneDrive) when the file recommendations feature is enabled.
* The following issues will only apply if the Gallery page is enabled:
** The page may require clicking twice on the node in the navigation pane for initial load.
** Users may experience thumbnail loading performance for dehydrated cloud files and memory usage in large collections.
** Photos from OneDrive for Business currently must be hydrated to work properly.
** Some file types (e.g., .HEIC) may not be rendered correctly or performantly.
=== Settings ===
Certain languages shown on the Language & Region page may indicate speech recognition support but don't yet have support for live captions.
=== Live captions ===
Captioning performance may be degraded in non-English languages and missing out-of-language filtering in non-English (United States) languages.
=== Safe mode ===
* Quick Settings and date/time clock on the taskbar may be missing due to the Capability Access Manager Service service not running.
* Clicking Bluetooth & devices and Personalization pages may crash the Settings app due to an overrun of a stack-based buffer 0xc0000409.
== Gallery ==
File:Win11-boot-10x-anim.png|Boot screen
File:Windows11-10.0.23440.1000-Taskbar.webp|The taskbar without date and time section
File:Windows11-10.0.23440.1000-Settings.webp|The Date & time page in the Settings app
== External links ==
* Official announcement
Category:Nickel builds
Category:Windows 11 builds