Windows 11 Build 25281 - Notepad Tabs, Sound Settings, Spotlight UI + MORE
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- We take a look at the latest Windows 11 preview build, which includes an updated Spotlight UI and Graphics Settings, as well tabs in Notepad!
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#Windows11 #WindowsInsider
Windows™ is now Tabs™
Hahaha! 😂
Best comment ever
Bring back sets!
whats the symbol after the TM
@@CrisCheese_ Space space. - The Space Sphere
OMG, FINALLY the volume mixer is easy to access.
On Win10 I was using EarTrumpet to have this feature. Please guys, send positive feedback about this feature so we can have it on Non-Insider builds.
idem, since I discovered it I also use it on win 11
@@carmelo309 I didn't use it on Win11 because it's not possible to hide the default volume icon, if I remember correctly.
But yeah, EarTrumpet is way superior to the actual default volume options.
use ear trumpet from microsoft store much better
Yup! Eartrumpet is cool but i don't like it starting up as soon as i turn on my PC so this feature is definitely great!
I think sou can disable it in eartrumpet setting, or even in the task manager
I'm glad that they're finally making individual volume mixers easy to use. Would this work with web apps as well? I have Google Meet and a VOIP phone system installed as web apps, and would love to be able to adjust their volumes to be different than say the base Windows volume.
That would probably be up to the developer of the browser to implement.
It would probably show up as Google Chrome or whatever browser you are using for those web apps.
@@lance_374 hopefully there’s a way for browsers to relay information to the system. Would be nice to have control of tab sounds from windows volume mixer
It's weird, because the volume mixer in the game bar menu in Windows 10 has been great for many years.
@@XDLugia there was also EarTrumpet in the MSStore that was rocking on my PC since Windows 10... Still for multiple audio cards EarTrumpet is better, but still i like to not have process booting with Windows.
Rounded corners = border radius
Yes, that's the technical term. Congrats
3:02 I think it's due to the checkmark on the spotlight icon.
Yes spotlight was still selected when he right clicked the desktop
That screen recording feature is fantastic. Hope they add the ability to save the video as a gif, or compress the video so that it can be quickly uploaded, or uploaded to stuff like Discord.
hahaha. Fedora (Linux) has had a screen recording feature for a long time
Those can be done using their Clipchamp app. I don't think right now they'd add such advanced functions inside the Screenshot tool when Microsoft has already invested money into buying Clipchamp and actually making the free version actually worth using.... so obviously want you to use that for such functions
Gifs are a plague from there past, not meant for videos, use more efficient video formats instead.
soon, almost everything in windows os will have TABS.
Hopefully that's the goal. macOS does the same.
They wanted to make windows to contain other windows through a tab interface, they got rid of that because it was stupidly browserish looking crap.
@@techwithtyler20 No tabs are unnecessary. Multi-windowing does everything just fine.
@@JuvStudios Microsoft should add the option to disable tabs just like in macOS. Those who don't want tabs could then disable them.
@@JuvStudios Multi windowing is crazy
The screen recording’s pretty neat. Can’t wait for that to land on stable
There is already game bar for screen recording. Microsoft does declutter to clutter again
@@codyrap95 If you've ever used it then you know how bad the recording looks, everything looks blurry. So new snipping tool recording feature should be (hope so) re written for better output.
@@tusharsnn and you can only record a single application at a time ;-;
guys, just use obs...
Also the add desktop app / add windows store app buttons are vertically misaligned by a pixel or two.
Can you have the nice alternating wallpapers without having the ugly ''learn about this picture'' icon? (I like my desktop clean)
There's a critical bug where you can delete the icon, and it won't come back unless you delete a certain key (not sure which one) from the registry.
@@techwithtyler20 sooo a feature then?
@@crazeedriver2005 No, it's such a critical bug that you need to create a new user account or delete a certain registry key (not sure which key though).
The only thing they need to add is uncombined icons on the taskbar. In general they should give the user the ability to costumize THEIR pc. The direction is talking by years Microsoft is that you can't customize your pc in any way.
It takes time to rebuild something from scratch. The taskbar was completely rebuilt and it will take time for features to come back. This option was leaked a few months ago but it hasn't been announced yet.
I want the ability to pin widgets on the desktop. And the recommended section in start menu is useless and a waste of space.
Yea this taskbar is trash. Completely kills productivity. I will stay on W10 until they bring back small/ungrouped taskbar icons.
Also why 2 different right click menus? Stupid half finished design.
I guess the generation of kids born with tablets in their hands as started to work at Microsoft. :(
Just use Linux.
@@casual-disaster Linux doesn't have software
I would love to see tabs on the Sticky notes!
It's called OneNote :D
Ok but seriously it would be fun to have tabs on the little compact sticky windows. May be more bloat than it's worth, who knows.
@@redyau_ thanks for your bloated input
@@mnharjotsingh Got me.
It's pretty creepy when it says "we stopped recording". Who is "we"?! Why is there not a simple "Recording stopped"?
They've been making it sound as if Windows is a group of people since Windows 8 for some reason.
yeah it is like you are interacting with a group of a people not a machine, and we obviously want to feel like we are dealing with a machine not some unknown people
I hate how the tabs on microsoft edge, explorer and notes are inconsistent and look and behave differently. Why can‘t they just copy and paste the same code and design?
They can easily make File Explorer and Notepad consistent, but not Edge since it uses Chromium UI.
@@techwithtyler20 What are you talking about lol. Edge uses the Chromium Engine, Microsoft can still completely decide the looks of Edge.
Microsoft PLEASE update the animation for auto-hide taskbar. It's still the laggy low fps jittery animation from Windows 7!
Aside from the speed, there's nothing to change--it's just a standard slide-up/down animation.
@@techwithtyler20 it’s very jittery compared to the rest of animations in Windows 11, take the context menu for example. While these animations are great, even on high refresh displays, the auto-hide taskbar is awful in comparison. At least windows 8 had an S-curve. Windows 11 is the same as 7, awful.
@@techwithtyler20 it could have ease in ease out effect
The right click at the beginning with the wallpaper, wasn't buggy, it was because you've selected that icon and it kept being selected. I think they are trying to change the way desktop interactions work. It's very confusing for sure!
im not going to lie, these tabs inside the explorere and notes are pretty dope but they need to add a split side by side view function... also when opening new folders it doesnt get opened as a tab... it gets opened up as new window..
where is Paint dark theme Microsoft? 😂😂
No idea why it's taking so long.
Nothing genuine at all. Linux has had tabs and varies other GUI improvements in their distros for many years. However, nice to see MS branching out some. Personally, though I think such improvements sometimes over complicates the GUI for many users. The best experience I feel for the user is a GUI where the user can toggle features on or off. This is where the GUI becomes tailored to the user and their preferences. (The mayhem of Linux distro hoppers). Afterall we are all different in what we think works best for us. Windows base needs to be plain and minimalistic for a fresh install. Then have different themes for users can choose how they work best. All customizable and toggled to have 100's of variations in colors, smoothing, tabs, etc. This would be an ideal windows experience. This is what I hope develops into the windows of the future.
Hope they get the screen recording function in the Snipping Tool fixed. Like tabs in Notepad. Thanks for the update news.
I just found out that instead of 4squares, Windows12 logo will have four circles
The search bar is horrendous
You can change it
@@malpeo They can change it
Why archaic notepad still exists when there is a free lightweight version of the visual studio called VS code?
it would be great if ms increase blur level of windows. Current looks as if there is no transparency effect at all
becuase of this I've been using only those wallpapers that have vibrant colors on the top and bottom which is interestingly, hard to find.
I still rock Win 10, but sometimes just look at whats new in Win 11, so I know what to expect when I finally upgrade, but I want a clean install so it will be quite some time. But yeah, cool features, even though most of these "features" I already have on my Win just with the power of 3d party software - the tabs - Groupy; volume changer - EarTrumpet; and I also have some advanced details and I think that's powertoys thing. So yeah 3d party software rocks, but it will probably work better natively if they polish it.
Thanks for the update in a live buggy testing😅
I completely forgot about the existence of the volume mixer after switching to macOS then to windows 11, so happy Microsoft is making it easier to use
5:57 FINALLY!!! I can get rid of EarTrumpet. Finally MS!!! THANK YOU!!!
7:24 yeah. Why MS? I use lots of times more Files Explorer than Notepad. Please add that feature.
7:42 cool feature. I can uninstall Streamlabs. Lots of times i just need to record my screen and I don't need multiple settings, just a light recording. Hope they'll add also some settings for microphone, etc.
They are trying hard with File Explorer but there are only a couple of file formats that can use tags and metadata. Pngs and folders cannot be added tags for ex. So the only way of organizing your stuff is to make folders over folders over folders.
I would guess the inapplicable items in the details pane will hide when finished--it's a very early implementation of the new design.
for tagging functionality use a free program called "tagging for windows" it fully integrates with windows.
Man seeing this in light mode killed me
file explorer still cant move tab around, i dont know wtf MS is doing with its time.
They are busily firing their staff (including the developers who know how to move tabs around).
they should also fix the windows 10 ui whenever you click the internet icon at logon prompt
They did.
@@techwithtyler20 yes I was talking about the build of windows 11 from 5 months ago
I love microsft way of building windows.
We make changes.
You report bugs.
The icon disappearing one is such an easy one to get, how did they not get it????
Cheaper for them, more transparent to us. It really is good. A lot like how open source works actually :D
I like how most of the video is just Zac laughing at the weird MS design decisions, and buggy software. Really shows the state of Windows 11 if even Windows Central is making fun of it. 🤭
Probably because it's a dev channel. It's not even beta and certainly not preview.
its just terrifyingly bad. I used to be some kind of power user in my workplace. I had to get at lot of stuff done fast. Windows worked best in XP/Seven Times. 25 Years ago computers where slow, now you are working slow because the interface is so terrible.
Omg Windows is finally going to have a simple native screen recorder??? So many years of shitty free apps with watermarks and horrible quality soon fixed with the snipping tool 😌 Idk if all but some Windows computers have the Xbox game bar built in which does contain a screen recorder but it's a bit glitchy, this is nice and simple and hopefully will look good too.
Also they totally need to refresh the file explorer's whole look, the actual file browsing part feels dated compared to something like the settings app which is somehow imo the most modern feeling app in Windows rn...
Lovely, nothing works. Typical windows 🤣🤷♂️
Dear Microsoft, let me change the position of my taskbar. Kind regards.
Pena Palace Windows Wallpaper - 6:15 - Sintra ❤❤❤❤
Im still waiting for an improvement in animation and the overall smoothness of the UI. I mean come on, i have 240hz screen but it feels sluggish. No bouncy animation whatsoever...
search highlights not work for me,\,how to fix ?it is on in settings,vivetool code ?
Amiga Dos 1.0 1985, disk full, 0 bytes free, when a filesystem use pointers.
I am facing this wifi button disappearing issue on the latest build available.
Whenever my laptop goes in sleep mode the wifi button just disappears and I am forced to restart it.
After the restart only the button comes back. But again if laptop goes to sleep mode it disappears.
So annoyed with this
Wish they add Tabs in MS Office though... much useful there than in Notepad
Has the snipping tool finally received a text comment and arrow tool?
Windows 11 seems to be going heavily towards touch screen
@FlyingMonkies325 keeping tabs from your previous session is an option in every single browser on pc
@FlyingMonkies325 no it's literally a browser setting that does exactly that I use it every day
@FlyingMonkies325 it should be yeah
I just gave up on using dev channel... because it just too much bugs in it.
That's the risk when you're an insider. If you want to be an insider with more stability, use the Beta Channel instead. Until the next version of Windows, Windows 11 2023 Update or Windows 12, Dev and Beta channels will have mostly identical features.
@@techwithtyler20 Yes thats exactly why I move to beta channel. I was in Dev channel for a about 2 Years, enjoying windows 11 dev for the first time before the official release was soo much fun but this was when I was a collage student, I can work around the unstable env in dev channel because I have time to thinker with that. But now I am employed and did not have much time to spare on tinkering stuff.
idk what they are trying to achieve with windows 11
its just garbage. i'll never switch unless i can not play games without anymore
Windows is FINALLY adding a simple screen recorder, hopefully it has some configurability (mic, resolution, etc.) but that's seriously been such a big missing feature for so long.
My reaction when reading the title/watching the thumbnail:
What... The f*ck
Why would you make a video like this without using RUclips Chapters?
Can we get a real, windowed volume mixer, I use ear trumpet which is okay but could be better.
I have promised myself to switch to Windows 11 when they finally ship tabs in explorer. Hope they won't screw it up and make them right (NOT like in Files app which is unusable). Make it work exactly like in Chromium browsers.
They did in 22H2 (aka Windows 11.1).
I hope we get soon a view where two tabs are next to each other in a side by side view if only two tabs are open.
And hopefully they get rid of these bugs. Even I can code apps that are not that buggy and I'm not a computer scientist.
Explorer tabs already exist in windows 11 22h2 (official release, you can find it in windows update.)
@@zeenxdownz Sorry, I wrote that wrong. The Tabs in W11 are fine except the missing drag and drop functionality, but a side by side view of two of those tabs would be great as well.
its not right click bug on the desktop. You have enabled the check box selection that's why it's happing. the app remain selected once clicked that's why its happing I guess .
Make a video on how to remove white line from file explorer. It suddenly appears. Help fix it
"Angolia"?... How did you read an "I" in the name of the country ANGOLA?
ROFL!!
Angola + Mongolia = Angolia
Zach is from Engiland
How far spyware has come these days.
Just Use Linux.
I will use Windows 11 again when there is virtual desktop animation, how good the feature is I will stick to windows 10 because THERE IS NO VIRTUAL DESKTOP ANIMATION ON WINDOWS 11!!
It was removed because it wasn’t working right. Windows 10 support ends in 2025.
3:15 looks like you selected icon thats why right click behaving weirdly
That graphics screen has been there for ages? My laptop has that and its not even running 22h2.
hey there.. good evening ! would u please let me know which screen recorder do you use ...?
6:10 That UX is shockingly bad to be honest.
You'd open the menu, and all devices are listed. Many people have 3-4 or more devices.
(especially as Windows duplicates any bluetooth device because it handles bluetooth codec switches terribly)
So, most of the menu would be taken up by those.
Then, there's an almost empty line for Spatial Audio, which your device doesn't even support, apparently.
Then, there's an almost empty line for the selected option of Spatial Audio, which your device doesn't even support, apparently.
And at the bottom, there's the volume mixer. Which is fine and all, but one thing is blatantly missing.
I don't know whether the first icon represents "System Sounds" or if it's just the overall volume of the PC. But whichever one it is, the other one is missing.
EarTrumpet had this figured out years ago.
(Though to be fair, the device selection on the main menu is absolute garbage. But the right click menu works wonderfully.)
Oh, and so did the Gamebar volume mixer. That controls *exactly* how it should.
Device select at the top, then overall volume, then individual apps.
And they can be pinned to the top, or you can just scroll the menu for whatever option you need.
(It would be neat if I could toggle a checkbox to see only the ones that are currently playing something, though.)
_And_ you can change the mic settings on the second tab.
It's beautiful and efficient. I genuinely don't understand how they can come up with something so useless after they have the perfect UI to copy from
Seems to me they are gradually turning windows into a apple android clone
Windows 11 is the worst Windows ever made.
I have a question, How do you get the new features while i’m on the latest dev channel Windows 11 (Build 25290.1000) Do you know any solutions for this?
Since you’re on a 25xxx build, and it would appear you weren’t moved to Canary, you’ll have to change your insider settings or do a clean install to the latest 23xxx build.
Microsoft please!! Add the option to theme Windows as Windows 98 / XP / Vista !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
microshit won't give a piece of shit about those defecated craps of user interfaces. sorry for disappointing you.
I am Zac's pronunciation of Angola
Zach is from Engiland
@@mark2thed281 Doesn't make any difference - here in the UK it still isn't mispronounced as "Angolia".
@@trickyrat483 And I'm sure you also don't pronounce England and "Engiland" lol. Look at my original comment a tad bit closer...
Still a waste of space. time steps life patience, thanks for explaning
By all these updates I can easily say that for me it looks like only 1 guy is sitting and developing the Windows... Doesn't seem like 1000 employees from 10-20 countries are working on this)
and yes, resizing/rescaling/shifting my explorer is still slow xD
Does anyone know what recording software he is using in this video?
Does this finally fix the annoying bug with Explorer randomly taking focus?
Irrelevant but: Thanks for lining the Details Pane up with the search bar at 5:39 😆... It's what I would do, and the moment you started resizing it, I was itching for it to land on that spot (and the little readjustment you did when you pulled it back out tells me you were intentional about it).
I've got really good enough laptop for Windows 11 but still there are so many lags on webpages, e.g. on RUclips scrolling, overall performance is much faster on Windows 10 and just downgraded to 10 and feel so snappy now -_- I think 11 still is worse OS as Microsoft does like good, bad, good, bad OS circle...
You must using a i3 laptop right,in my i7 evo laptop,windows 11 never ever lagged,it is way smoother than windows 10 will ever will be,so stop wining and get a better laptop for god's sake.
@@jugantasaha1000 But it’s 12th Gen i3 with 10 cores and 2.4Ghz, what the hall? If it can’t run, why microsoft sends this upgrades to supported but not functional hardwares?
0:40 That's actually a *gigantic* downgrade.
In the win10 version you can see what option all of your apps are set to _without_ opening each app.
And it's really useful, actually.
I just switched to Windows 11 and immediately noticed 2 crazy things , 1st It forces me to use cloud storage instead of local storage, it took me 1 hour to switch to local and 2nd carbon emissions bullshit when I configured power settings
the most anoying intro i never seen in my life
I love Zac's OCD to put the details pane vertical line exactly below the line of the search box on the top right. Totally relatable. :)
The wallpaper card design looks like something a friend of mine did when I was teaching him about CSS and he first learned about border-radius, the spacing on that thing ir super inconsistent, looks like something an intern would design
The Snipping Tool has a bug, I Think..!!
I spot the search icon showing an image of bing’s spotlight like windows 10
Speaking of bugs this gonna the months maybe at late of this year to fix all of bugs
They just been screwing it and no real design. They made of start menu design, catastrophic. Went back to great Win 10.
Support ends in 2025.
Insider build is way too buggy.
Details pane. I thought I've seen that in Vista
It’s not a new feature-it’s just been redesigned with Fluent.
Next, Microsoft rebrands "Microsoft Windows" as "Microsoft Tabs"
make the navbar with little icons again
It’s not a rounded corner, but a curved corner!
design consistency = 0 like always
You have the checkmark on the Icon "Learn about this picture" that's why I think the context menu is different.
I don’t even have said icon at all because of a critical bug-you can delete the icon like you can any desktop icon and it won’t come back.
Nice options for the sound quick settings but really Microsoft needs to implement native real spatial audio decoding, like for 16 speakers, you know, like MARCOS has, instead of just simulating spatial audio for headphones.
Zzz I can't put the taskbar to the left
Meanwhile my laptop doesn't even get the 22H2 update... sigh :(
Unless your device meets the requirements, you’re not guaranteed to receive updates.
Better needed update
They added some transition animation too
here we go, no more lightweight notepad 🙂
Nicely good news 👍🏻
that long search bar just aint it
I love how he gets exited over features that have been on linux for decades. An application similar to notepad called gedit had tabs since 2003. Sound management in gnome has been a thing since gnome 2.3 . Microsoft has a lot of work to do to catch up with the ultimately better OS
Tf is a linux? Never heard of it
@@Codyslx Android runs on linux, the entire internet does so. Basically it runs on almost everything
@@John_Kap Just looked it up an apparently android is modified.
@@Codyslx It still runs on the Linux kernel. Yes it's not straight up Linux but it is based on it
And still no sign of desktop/workspace switching animations.
It was removed because it didn’t work right.
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