Windows 11 Build 25126 Improves Account Settings Page

Microsoft has now released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25126.1000 to the Dev channel. Since Microsoft has already hinted at the Windows 11 22H2 release schedule, it is safe to say that this flight in the Dev channel will potentially be a part of Windows 11 23H2.

Windows 11 build 25126 includes a few fixes for the operating system but also improves the Settings app experience. It now integrates Microsoft 365 Office products licensed with your account and displays the information on the Accounts Settings page.

Let us now continue to see all the improvements in this release.

New in Windows 11 Build 25126

Improvements to Accounts Settings Page

As we highlighted above in this post, the Accounts Settings page will now include details about your Microsoft 365 Office subscriptions. With this flight, Microsoft is making it easier for you to view all supported Office perpetual products such as Office 2021 or Office 2019 associated with your account within Settings >> Accounts.

Note that this feature is only beginning to roll out, therefore may not be available to all Insiders at the moment.

Other Improvements and Fixes

Other changes and fixes have also been made with this flight:

• [General]
  • An issue causing some Insiders to experience a bugcheck with the error DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL in PCI.sys causing a rollback trying to install the latest builds in the Dev Channel has been fixed.
  • Some work has been done to mitigate the issue causing the Program Compatibility Assistant Service to use an unexpectedly large amount of CPU for some Insiders after upgrading to the latest Insider Preview builds in the Dev Channel.
• [Start Menu]
  • If the touch keyboard is docked it should no longer unexpectedly dismiss when trying to edit the name of a folder in Start.
• [Search]
  • A high-hitting explorer.exe crash that could happen when using Search has been addressed.
• [Settings]
  • The preview image under Personalization >> Lock Screen should no longer be backward when using an Arabic or Hebrew display language.
• [Task Manager]
  • If explorer.exe has hung, that should no longer hang Task Manager.
  • An issue where the context menus weren’t following the same mode (light or dark) as Task Manager itself for some Insiders has been fixed.
  • Fixed a typo in the “Minimize on use” tooltip.
  • If you’ve hidden the graphs on the side of the Performance page, the color of the circles used instead should now match the graph in the summary view.
  • An issue where the “Not Responding” status for certain apps wasn’t being reflected on the Processes page has been fixed.
• [Windows Sandbox]
  • Removed the Lock option in the Start menu as it didn’t work.
• [Other]
  • An issue where using “Open All Active Printers” from the printer icon in the system tray would unexpectedly open File Explorer when there were no active queues has been addressed.

With these new features, improvements, and fixes, there are also several new known issues we think you should know about before upgrading to this build.

Known Issues

• [General]
  • Some games that use Easy Anti-Cheat may crash or cause your PC to bugcheck.
• [Live captions]
  • When using certain apps in full-screen mode (e.g., video players), live captions may not appear.
  • If some apps are positioned near the top of the screen and closed before live captions run, they will re-launch behind the live captions window positioned at the top. If you experience these issues, use the system menu (ALT + Spacebar) while the app has focus to move the app’s window further down.

How to Install Windows 11 Build 25126

To install this update, you need to be running Windows 11 and subscribed to the Dev channel. If you have enabled Windows updates, you will automatically get a “New features are ready to install” prompt.

If not, follow these steps to install Preview Build 25126:

1. Navigate to the Settings app and then click Windows Update on the left.

2. Here, click Check for updates on the right side of the window.

   

3. You will then see the following update available under Updates available to download:

   Windows 11 Insider Preview 25126.1000 (rs_prerelease)

   Click Download and install in front of it.

   

4. The update will now begin to download and then install. Once complete, click Restart Now.

   

Once the computer restarts, you can verify that the OS has been updated by typing in winver in the Run Command box.

Rollback/Remove Windows 11 Insider Preview Update

If you do not wish to keep the installed preview update for some reason, you can always roll back to the previous build of the OS. However, this can only be performed within the next 10 days after installing the new update.

To roll back after 10 days, you will need to apply this trick.

Cleanup After Installing Windows Updates

If you want to save space after installing Windows updates, you can run the following commands one after the other in Command Prompt with administrative privileges:

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /AnalyzeComponentStore

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup