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Second Windows 11 Insider Preview Brings Back Refresh Button, Adds Search in Start Menu

Jul. 9, 2021

Afterreleasing the first Windows 11 preview buildlast week, Microsoft is now rolling out a new Insider build (version 22000.65) to Dev channel users. Here are all the changes and bug fixes in the new Windows 11 update.

The most noticeable visual change in the new Insider build has to be thenew search box in the Start menu. You don’t necessarily have to click to highlight the search box though. You can just start typing when you open the Start menu and Windows 11 will automatically process your search.

Another convenient change is theability to show the taskbar across multiple monitors. To change the taskbar placement in Windows 11, go to Settings -> Personalization -> Taskbarand pick how you would prefer to see your taskbar in the secondary display.

You can choose to enable the taskbar in all displays, just the main taskbar, and taskbar where the window is open, or only in the taskbar where the window is open.

Apart from these, Microsoft has updated the system alert dialog box in some cases such as battery low alerts or when you change display alerts. In addition, Windows 11 now shows Power mode settings in the Power & battery page in Settings.

And just when we thought theRefresh option has taken a backseatin Windows 11, the22000.65 build has brought back the beloved Refresh button to the right-click context menu. Microsoft has also optimized snap layouts when using smaller PCs and brought GIFs to the emoji panel for Windows Insiders in China.

As far as bug fixes are concerned, the latest Windows 11 build includes the fix for thecritical PrintNightmare vulnerabilityand other miscellaneous improvements to Search, taskbar, Settings, File Explorer, Search, and the Widgets. You can check out the entire changelogright hereand thebest Windows 11 featuresfrom our linked article.

Subin writes about consumer tech, software, and security. He secretly misses the headphone jack while pretending he’s better off with the wireless freedom.