Windows 10 20H1 build 18975 now available for Fast ring Insiders

Microsoft is capping off the week with a new Windows 10 20H1 preview build for Fast ring Insiders to bank check out. This latest release pushes the build number upwardly to 18975, and it includes a scattering of new features alongside a ton of issues fixes and improvements.

New in this build is the power to move the Cortana window. You can also resize the window, allowing you lot to place information technology and shape it even so you please. This capabiity is rolling out to one-half of Windows Insiders who currently have admission to the new Cortana experience.

Here'south a full look at what's new and fixed in Windows 10 build 18975.

What's new in build 18975

Introducing the power to move the Cortana window: With the new conversational Cortana feel, we empathize that you wanna keep the chat going sometimes, and the default position of the window isn't always where y'all'd prefer to take it docked if you're going to have a longer back and forth. That's why nosotros're starting to roll out the option to be able to motility the window (by dragging the title bar area), to anywhere y'all'd like on the screen–merely like you can with other windows. Yous tin can also resize the window if you'd like. Currently, this change is rolled out to 50% of Insiders with the new Cortana experience, and we'll proceed the rollout as we validate the quality of the experience.

Update on Virtual Desktop renaming: The power to rename your virtual desktops is at present available for all Insiders in the Fast ring! Thanks again anybody who shared feedback requesting this.

Full general changes, improvements, and fixes for PC

We stock-still an issue resulting in the "Bluetooth and Other Devices" and "Printers and Scanners" non rendering correctly in the last two flights.

We fixed an event resulting in search crashing on launch for Insiders using sure brandish languages, including Polish.

We fixed an event resulting in some Insiders receiving fault 0xC0000142 when attempting to upgrade to recent builds.

We stock-still a recent issue resulting in some Insiders finding that various File Explorer settings were unexpectedly modified, and in some cases couldn't be corrected. This impacted File Explorer's navigation pane visibility, the option for the navigation pane to automatically show all folders, and showing the drive messages. Please note that while this fix will stop it from happening, if you were impacted, you will need to have steps to return these settings in File Explorer to be their desired state.

We fixed an outcome resulting in the minimize, maximize, and close title bar buttons not working for certain apps.

For those who would prefer not to meet the post upgrade setup page, we've added a new selection to plough information technology off under Notification Settings. Note, it will only be visible for users eligible for seeing this setup page.

We fixed an issue where the text candidate listing, when typing in Korean using the touch keyboard, was in reverse order.

We updated the Chinese Pinyin IME toolbar to at present be light when using low-cal theme.

Nosotros fixed an outcome that could effect in the Chinese Pinyin IME not responding the first time y'all tried to select a text candidate in sure types of text fields.

We fixed an issue that could event in the mouse cursor condign transparent and not visible when HDR was enabled.

We fixed an outcome where if MS Paint was open in the groundwork, using the arrow keys would upshot in the mouse cursor changing position despite MS Paint not beingness in focus.

We fixed an consequence when using your PC in Arabic or Hebrew, where when maximizing win32 apps you lot could meet the title bar flip for a 2nd to prove the close button on the right instead of on the left.

We fixed an event impacting Action Center reliability in the previous flying.

We've made some adjustments to assistance accost potential out of memory issues over Remote Desktop that could effect in you being unexpectedly logged out of your remote session.

Nosotros fixed an issue resulting in non being able to setup Windows Hello during OOBE.

We've updated our upgrade logic so that going forward, your preferred scheduled defragmentation settings volition be preserved on upgrade. Cheers to those who shared feedback almost this. We've fabricated some improvements to help address out of memory issues resulting in users potentially getting logged out of remote desktop sessions.

Nosotros fixed an issue impacting Your Phone reliability in contempo flights that resulted in seemingly random crashes during use.

We fixed an issue where, when taking a screenshot using the pen afterward rotating your device, the screenshot might not be in the expected orientation.

We fixed an issue when taking a snip that could event in your screenshot being unexpectedly blacked out.

We accept removed the choice to change Magnifier UI to a magnifying glass and exist in the viewport. We would exist interested to hear if this choice was useful to you and why.

Magnifier reading now supports reading in more places.

Several bug take been resolved that caused the Magnifier UI not to scale or resize correctly when users adjusted the Brand text bigger or the Make everything bigger settings.

We resolved an issue where users could not apply some Magnifier hotkeys after sign-in until Magnifier was restarted.

We resolved an upshot where Magnifier Docked and Lens manner would turn into Total Screen mode when User Account Controls were agile.

Nosotros resolved an result in Notepad where the text cursor would display, but the text cursor indicator would not.

We resolved an issue in Notepad where the text cursor indicator prevented users from double-clicking to select text.

Nosotros resolved an upshot where the text cursor indicator preview in Ease of Access settings was not usable when Dark Mode is enabled.

Nosotros resolved an issue where the text cursor indicator was randomly filling in with black.

We fixed an issue with Narrator stopping early when reading certain dialogs.

Based on user feedback, we enhanced Narrator's reading experience when arrowing through messages in Outlook. When the importance column is read the "importance" header is always spoken before the high or low. If a message has been flagged that column's information volition be spoken immediately after the importance cavalcade instead of at the end.

We fixed a bug where Narrator did not play the fault audio in certain scenarios.

We raised the book of Narrator's link and scroll sounds.

We stock-still a bug when the Narrator folio summary was non working in the Chrome browser.

We fixed a bug where assistive engineering (e.g. Narrator, Magnifier, NVDA) were starting after sign-in when simply the before sign-in setting was ready.

Narrator is at present presenting "flash messages" on a configured braille display as expected for reading the window title and when presenting suggested content.

Narrator is at present presenting cell contents on a configured braille display as expected when navigating a tabular array.

Fast band Insiders can download build 18975 now via Windows Update. For more on this release, including a look at the known issues, y'all can check out Microsoft's full release notes at the Windows Blog.

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