Insider KB5025305 Windows 11 Insider Release Preview Build 22621.1631 (22H2)

magilla · Apr 13, 2023

BrianInEngland said:
I've never had seconds displayed, even when I set to HH:mm:ss

I will live without it.

BrianInEngland · Apr 13, 2023

magilla said:
I will live without it.

Yes it's hardly a major issue

asturias7 · Apr 13, 2023

FrancoDT said:
Yay!, I've got seconds on the taskbar clock with this build.View attachment 57784

Same, FINALLY!

Now does anyone know how to increase the font size for the clock?

PerpetualCycle · Apr 14, 2023

BrianInEngland said:
Yes it's hardly a major issue

But you wouldn't think such a hard thing for Microsoft to get right.

spartanz1080 · Apr 14, 2023

I am confused about the new setting which you can turn off or on for non security updates to get them first. If you turn them on will you still be on release preview? I don’t understand how this works if you’re in one specific channel.

Maverik · Apr 14, 2023

Once again, The "win+x" functionality is not working for me on 22621.1631. Rolling back to 22621.1555, restores this functionality.

ngsh · Apr 14, 2023

Still unable to fix my input language issue. Stuck.

Maverik · Apr 14, 2023

If you're not seeing seconds on the taskbar clock, this can easily be fixed in the registry.

Run regedit. Go to the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Locate the "ShowSecondsInSystemClock" Dword subkey and set it to 1.
If you can't find the subkey, then just create it and set it to 1.
The change should be immediate and does not require a reboot.

mecanicogolf · Apr 15, 2023

FrancoDT said:
Yay!, I've got seconds on the taskbar clock with this build.View attachment 57784

Do you really need seconds?

FrancoDT · Apr 15, 2023

mecanicogolf said:
Do you really need seconds?

We probably don't "need" a lot of things but want and need are two different things and I do find them convenient to have when timing events etc. Also it beats having to use a third party app like ElevenClock for such a simple feature using more system recourses. While it might not matter to many for me and others it's a long wanted feature we appreciated in the past and are glad to have back.

Bree · Apr 15, 2023

mecanicogolf said:
Do you really need seconds?

It was available in Win10, and I miss it in Win11. Occasionally I need the time correct to the nearest second, like when I want to set the time on my watch. But apart from anything else I find it reasuring, let's me know at a glance that my Windows hasn't frozen :wink:

FrancoDT · Apr 15, 2023

Bree said:
It was available in Win10, and I miss it in Win11. Occasionally I need the time correct to the nearest second, like when I want to set the time on my watch. But apart from anything else I find it reasuring, let's me know at a glance that my Windows hasn't frozen

Whats that old saying, "One man's garbage is another man's treasure"?

ian50 · Apr 15, 2023

I'm still testing 22624.1610, comparing it with 22621.1555. Did briefly try 22624.1537 - discarded with too many settings messed around.

[No interest in "seconds" display, I use thruclock on the desktop for that for setting my watch as Bree does, with minimal resource needs and vibrant, while sophisticated, colour settings].

The most critical change for me from 621.1555 to 624.1610 is the significant improvement in the speed of copying/moving large Gb files from one external USB disk to another. (I'm assuming that this most recent update 624.1631 has retained this improvement).

I have tested this speed improvement with as objective a comparison as I can manage - same PC, same external disks, same 200+Gb file. With 621.1555, speed varied from about 100Mb/s to 50Mb/s, up and down like a yo-yo according to how the cache was allowed to behave, I think. With 624.1610, speed was a very consistent 90-95Mb/s. Time taken is improved by about 23-24% - this is the most useful improvement for me in these continual update builds.

A further improvement in the speed of copy/move for large files could tempt me to move on, though.

BrianInEngland · Apr 16, 2023

Maverik said:
Once again, The "win+x" functionality is not working for me on 22621.1631. Rolling back to 22621.1555, restores this functionality.

Win+X works fine here on 1631

Maverik · Apr 16, 2023

BrianInEngland said:
Win+X works fine here on 1631

Thanks for responding.

I use a program called "Explorer Patcher" to enable a Windows 10 style taskbar. Version 22621.1413.54.5 of Explorer Patcher is not compatible with 22621.1631 and blocks Win+X. When Explorer Patcher is uninstalled in 22621.1631, Win+X works just fine. Sometimes the Win+X functionality is available when Explorer Patcher is installed. Windows 11 22621.1485 and 22621.1555 work just fine. But not with 22621.1631.

BrianInEngland · Apr 16, 2023

Maverik said:
Thanks for responding.

I use a program called "Explorer Patcher" to enable a Windows 10 style taskbar. Version 22621.1413.54.5 of Explorer Patcher is not compatible with 22621.1631 and blocks Win+X. When Explorer Patcher is uninstalled in 22621.1631, Win+X works just fine. Sometimes the Win+X functionality is available when Explorer Patcher is installed. Windows 11 22621.1485 and 22621.1555 work just fine. But not with 22621.1631.

I've never used any Windows 'tweaker' apps, but each to their own. They *can* break things

Wisewiz · Apr 27, 2023

My impression (subjective, cuz I didn't make notes on the last build's speeds) is that copying large files from my internal NVMe drives to my external SSDs is considerably faster; it's running in the range of 350MB/S for me now. Yay!

Oh, and I've got seconds now too, but not the switch for it. I just used Brink's reg file to start the seconds display. OK.

cereberus · May 6, 2023

Well, I just ended up with too many niggling bugs e.g. having to press start menu twice to open it, the power off menu keeps glitching just randomly turning off instead of showing the menu. I have to often double click desktop items twice etc. Repair upgrades, sfc etc. made no difference.

MS are slowly killing my OS with a death by a thousand cuts rather than just nuking it LOL.

So I have finally been beaten after 8+years across 3 laptops over time and had been forced (screaming and kicking) to do a clean install!

Holy pluck a duck - I have spent 10 hours so far to get pc back in a semblance of what it was. All those little tweaks blah blah blah. Reinstalling apps has been a pain, especially ones with accounts with 2FA.

It has made sfa difference in performance but the niggling bugs are stopped (until next upgrade lol).

This experience has make me conclude clean installs are for insane people with too much time on their hands.

On the bright side, I will still be busy sorting out settings and can avoid the tedious King C. pantomime on Monday

Brink · May 11, 2023

KB5026446 Windows 11 Insider Release Preview Build 22621.1776 (22H2)

UPDATE 6/20: https://www.elevenforum.com/t/kb5027303-windows-11-insider-release-preview-build-22621-1926-22h2.15799/ Windows Blogs: Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing Windows 11 Build 22621.1776 (KB5026446) to Insiders in the Release Preview Channel on Windows 11, version 22H2...

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