Windows 11 Build 25281 - Notepad Tabs, Sound Settings, Spotlight UI + MORE 

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.

Windows™˜ is now Tabs™

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.

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.

3:02 I think it's due to the checkmark on the spotlight icon.

The screen recording’s pretty neat. Can’t wait for that to land on stable

Rounded corners = border radius

Also the add desktop app / add windows store app buttons are vertically misaligned by a pixel or two.

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 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!

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

I would love to see tabs on the Sticky notes!

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.

Hope they get the screen recording function in the Snipping Tool fixed. Like tabs in Notepad. Thanks for the update news.

Microsoft PLEASE update the animation for auto-hide taskbar. It's still the laggy low fps jittery animation from Windows 7!

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..

soon, almost everything in windows os will have TABS.

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).

It's nice to see microsoft giving similar updates to windows 10 users like the pictures on the search bar.

Thanks for the update in a live buggy testing😅

Can you have the nice alternating wallpapers without having the ugly ''learn about this picture'' icon? (I like my desktop clean)

It's good to see that windows is now looking good as KDE

You have the checkmark on the Icon "Learn about this picture" that's why I think the context menu is different.

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.

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.

Finally, some good freaking updates

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.

Besides separating/merging tabs in FE, I'd also love an option to always open a directory in a new tab on an already-open window.

it would be great if ms increase blur level of windows. Current looks as if there is no transparency effect at all

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????

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.

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?

It's pretty creepy when it says "we stopped recording". Who is "we"?! Why is there not a simple "Recording stopped"?

Pena Palace Windows Wallpaper - 6:15 - Sintra ❤❤❤❤

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

Why archaic notepad still exists when there is a free lightweight version of the visual studio called VS code?

They added some transition animation too

Notepad tabs, wow! Only got that in 2001 on debian

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.

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.

Nicely good news 👍🏻

3:15 looks like you selected icon thats why right click behaving weirdly

they should also fix the windows 10 ui whenever you click the internet icon at logon prompt

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.

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 .

I just found out that instead of 4squares, Windows12 logo will have four circles

Wish they add Tabs in MS Office though... much useful there than in Notepad

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

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

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

The search bar is horrendous

hey there.. good evening ! would u please let me know which screen recorder do you use ...?

Can we get a real, windowed volume mixer, I use ear trumpet which is okay but could be better.

Has the snipping tool finally received a text comment and arrow tool?

you have item check box option selected so its still keeping that app selected hence, it showing those option when right clicking

That graphics screen has been there for ages? My laptop has that and its not even running 22h2.

Man seeing this in light mode killed me

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.)

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.

search highlights not work for me,\,how to fix ?it is on in settings,vivetool code ?

file explorer still cant move tab around, i dont know wtf MS is doing with its time.

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...

It’s not a rounded corner, but a curved corner!

I find it annoying that Windows took over GPU controls yet it doesn't seem to let you (no that I've found in the settings) completely switch over to the dedicated graphics. When running a 4K monitor, it's nice to have stability and usable performance which is perfectly achievable by defaulting to the dedicated graphics card instead of the integrated graphics.

I used Notepad++, it's had tabs for a long time plus other features that Notepad doesn't have and it's free.

Does this finally fix the annoying bug with Explorer randomly taking focus?

make the navbar with little icons again

Make a video on how to remove white line from file explorer. It suddenly appears. Help fix it

Still no option for multi sound output from bluetooth ? I mean all bt v5 supports it

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

Does anyone know what recording software he is using in this video?

I come here everytime for the "buh-bye"

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...

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?

I just gave up on using dev channel... because it just too much bugs in it.

I am Zac's pronunciation of Angola

Sticking with Win 10

Amiga Dos 1.0 1985, disk full, 0 bytes free, when a filesystem use pointers.

Why would you make a video like this without using RU-vid Chapters?

Are you use a intel 7gen laptop?

Windows 11 seems to be going heavily towards touch screen

I honestly gave up on Windows 4 years back, when I tried Mint for the first time. After that every time I looked at Windows, it never spoke to me. I was a Windows fanboy and was an early adopter of Windows 10 and have known Zac from his Windows 10 build days. But I realized over time that no matter how many niche features Microsoft cramps in there, it can never match the fit and finish of MAC OS or even Linux for that matter. This is a lost cause. I recently switched to MAC and have been loving it.

And still no sign of desktop/workspace switching animations.

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.

The Snipping Tool has a bug, I Think..!!

Im confused, i am on an even newer version, but don't have the new features. Does anyone know why, or how to fix?

where is Paint dark theme Microsoft? 😂😂

Why does notepad still do not have line numbers like Linux text editors.

I Saw Microsoft 365 icon in the start menu.

Why can't they copy and paste the tabs from microsoft edge into file explorer and notepad???

Zzz I can't put the taskbar to the left

Is it worth upgrading from Windows 10 to 11 yet? From what I understand they removed some useful bits of 10 for some reason.

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!!

Details pane. I thought I've seen that in Vista

here we go, no more lightweight notepad 🙂

Can you still open more than one File Explorer window?

I'm still not switching unless they bring back every features removed from Windows 10

name of that castle wallpaper plsssss

My reaction when reading the title/watching the thumbnail: What... The f*ck

Meanwhile my laptop doesn't even get the 22H2 update... sigh :(