Windows 11 build 22494

Windows 11 build 22494 is the tenth Insider Preview build of Windows 11 2022 Update. It was released to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel on 3 November 2021.
== New features and changes ==
=== Shell ===
* A microphone icon will be automatically added to the taskbar when joining in a Microsoft Teams call.
** Users can see the status of call audio and microphone, as well as mute or unmute their call via the microphone icon.
** This change is only available to a subset of users.
* The ability to show snap groups in and Task View has been added.
** This change is only available to a subset of users.
* The padding for selected items as seen by clicking Show More Options in the File Explorer context menu, or the menu options in Task Manager has been increased.
=== File Explorer ===
* A dropdown menu named "Filter" has been added to the command bar, but it appears empty and is not functional.
=== Settings ===
* A dropdown menu of options containing current query when searching for file type or link types under Default apps page has been added.
* Users can now launch the installed apps settings page directly via the URI ms-settings:installed-apps.
* The names of the sort by options under Installed apps page has been adjusted, and a new option to sort from smallest to largest size has been added.
* A new "Advanced sharing settings" has been added under Advanced network settings page, including all corresponding settings (e.g. network discovery, File and printer sharing, and public folder sharing) in Control Panel.
** This page is not shown by default, but can be enabled by running ViveTool from an elevated Command Prompt window and enable the 35529414 velocity ID.
* Updates to the device specific pages under Printers & Scanners page have been made in order to directly show more information about printer or scanner when available.
** This change is disabled by default, but can be enabled by running ViveTool from an elevated Command Prompt window and enable the 35532102 velocity ID.
=== Bugfixes ===
* Tooltips should no longer appear in random places on the taskbar after sliding mouse over volume, battery, network, or other icons in the taskbar corner.
* Addressed an underlying issue that was leading to come unexpected duplication of certain icons in the taskbar corner.
* Addressed an issue that was causing the context menu to crash when trying to scroll it.
* Addressed an issue where in certain areas of the screen the context menu submenus would draw on top of the context menu instead of beside it.
* Addressed an issue where renaming files on the desktop is not working.
* The context menu icons should be less blurry on systems with multiple monitors with mixed DPI.
* Addressed an issue that could cause selecting Open With in the context menu to unexpectedly just open the file in certain cases rather than actually opening the Open With dialog.
* An adjustment has been made to the command bar underlying logic to help improve performance of command actions.
* Fixed a few explorer.exe crashes related to using windowing features.
* The background should now be acrylic on both monitors when opening Task View on a system with multiple monitors.
* Addressed a couple UI issues with the window thumbnails in Task View and , notably that the close button might get cut off if the app window was too thin.
* Mitigated an issue that was causing certain apps to hang when trying to drag something with the or key held down.
* Fixed an issue that was causing the touch keyboard to not appear on tablets when tapping the text field when trying to reset PIN from the login screen.
* Reliability of the Pen menu has been improved.
* Fixed a recent issue that was causing the indexer database to become too fragmented, leading to the indexer unexpectedly consuming a large amount of memory and CPU for a prolonged period of time.
* Fixed an issue causing links to Windows Update, Recovery and For developers to show under the main Windows Update Settings page.
* Addressed an issue where Facial Recognition (Windows Hello) might be unexpectedly greyed out in Sign-in Settings in certain cases until closing and opening Settings.
* Fixed an issue where Storage Sense wasn't cleaning up C:\Windows\SystemTemp.
* Standard users should now be able to change the time zone in Settings if Location access is not granted, rather than the dropdown menu going blank.
* Fixed a bug where images had a yellow tonality in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Lightroom Classic when in HDR mode.
* Mitigated an issue related to DHCP that was causing unexpected power usage while the screen was off in recent Nickel builds.
* Addressed an issue where Service Host: WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service would unexpectedly utilize a lot of CPU.
* Fixed an issue that could cause some devices to have a black screen when coming out of sleep (where the lock screen wouldn't display).
* Addressed an underlying issue that was causing some users with ARM64 PCs to experience an increase in Microsoft Teams crashes in recent Nickel builds.
== Bugs and quirks ==
* The clock in the taskbar may get stuck and not updated, particularly when accessing the PC via Remote Desktop.
* Due to a UI issue, clipboard history may unexpectedly be blank even if it's enabled and should contain content.
* Several system icons in the taskbar may get larger than normal if DPI scaling level is set to 125%.
* Caps Lock, Num Lock, Scroll Lock, and other indicator lights on the keyboard may not work properly.
* Some devices may fail to install this build or perform an update with an error code 0x80070002.
* Clicking App Settings in an app's right-click context menu may lead to the System page in the Settings app, rather than the Advanced Options page.
* In Safe mode, 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:Windows11-10.0.22494.1000-StartMenu.png|Start menu
File:Windows11-10.0.22494.1000-DarkMode.png|Dark mode
File:Windows11-10.0.22494.1000-FileExplorer.png|File Explorer (with Filter menu)
File:Windows11-10.0.22494.1000-FileExplorerDark.png|File Explorer (dark mode, with Filter menu)
File:Windows11-10.0.22494.1000-SnapGroups.png|Snap groups shown in Task View
File:Windows11-10.0.22494.1000-AdvancedSharingSettings.png|Advanced sharing settings page in Settings app
File:Windows11-10.0.22494.1000-TeamsMic.png|The microphone icon for a Microsoft Teams call on the taskbar
File:Windows11-10.0.22494.1000-LargeIconsBug.png|Larger icons bug in the taskbar
== External links ==
* Official announcement
Category:Windows 11 builds
Category:Windows 11 2022 Update builds