- Julio de Windows 11 update is now available
- It offers a lot of new features and adjustments.
- There are also some important corrections, particularly for players.
Windows 11 24h2 has a new update and is a heavy matter that packs a lot of additions of characteristics and some important corrections.
What sweets can you expect with the cumulative update for July? I will briefly summarize some of the changes implemented here, and those corrections, first of all, before choosing some personal outstanding aspects here in terms of the largest movements in progress with the introduction of new features.
It is also worth remembering that the update formally known as KB5062553 has some characteristics in a gradual deployment, so it is possible that you do not see everything that lands on your PC immediately after applying the patch, but you are sure that everything is in the pipe.
In the changes, one of which is the fastest native deactivation of files in the file explorer (the folders in their desktop).
There are also a couple of settings for the Windows Share interface, which allows you to easily share files through a range of applications. First, this now offers a visual preview of any web content that is shared. Secondly, for the images, there is also compression of available barrel files, which allows you to quickly reduce the size of an image to a predefined level (low, medium or high compression), which makes it faster and easier to share with another person.
As for the solutions, there is a lot of work that PC players will appreciate, including the resolution of a problem by which the alternative of a game could get into the mouse cursor (if the game resolution was different from that of the desk). There is also a solution for the alternative table away from a full screen game that makes some applications freeze.
In addition, Microsoft has cured instances in which ‘visualization is restarted’, which means that the monitor screen becomes black for a couple of seconds, has been bothering people, even when games.
Other corrections include crushing an error where Windows could change its size and position after a device had woken up from sleep, and a problem in which by dragging a window around the desktop, the file explorer could block.
Next, here are my most prominent aspects for the new features delivered, or a point of being delivered, with the July update for Windows 11.
1. Honey, I shrunk the icons of the taskbar
Microsoft has made a small but shocking adjustment with the taskbar. The idea is that as it opens more applications, and the taskbar becomes a busiest place, the icons in the bar are automatically shrunk. This means that you can see more applications and icons in these scenarios (instead of overflowing in a separate panel), which is quite ingenious.
That said, looking at this change, not everyone wants shrinking icons. The good thing is that if you fall in this category, you can simply disable this behavior and make the icons act as they do now.
2. Accessibility treats
Access to voice is a characteristic that still uses from time to time (although it used to use it much more when I suffered RSI for a couple of years in the past), and the July patch brings with it the ability to add personalized words to the dictionary. This is an orderly feature that was present in Nuance’s Dragon voice recognition software (on which access to voice is based), and it is good to see it appear on Windows 11.
Microsoft has also added a privacy function for the Windows 11 screen reading tool, narrator, called ‘screen curtain’. This means that while the narrator is reading the content of the screen, the screen is blocked, so in public, no one can look on their shoulder with potentially sensitive or confidential material. Of course, you will need to use headphones to listen to the content that was narrated in private.
3. Lead, edge
This update makes a change related to browsers who, unfortunately, will only be for people in Europe like me. It is a simple adjustment that means that Windows 11 will now link its predetermined browser chosen to all types of files that open in a web browser. Isn’t that the case already? Well, no, not for some darker formats, and what this means is that you will sometimes get an edge when you access those files.
So, this means less advantage in your face in those scenarios, which has to be something good. For those in Europe, that is, why is this change restricted to that region? Because it is linked in European data regulations, which unfortunately means those in the United States, or otherwise, they will not obtain the benefit of this adjustment. That is something Microsoft should change in my opinion, but I don’t think it is likely to happen.
4. PC migration to PC
This is a feature that is part of the Windows backup application that pleases me to see, since it will facilitate people to change an old PC to a new one. You will do all the work of grunts for you, transfer your files and installation (with both machines connected to the same network).
However, there is a great warning: at this point we are only obtaining a “first glance” to the function. At this time, it is not actually functional, but the shell of the migration capacity of PC is now in its place. What this means is that it should be on the road soon (in a ‘future update’ they tell us), and you can bet that Microsoft wants this in its place probably long before the expiration of Windows 10 (in October 2025 when the support is exhausted).
So, what I am happy here is that this points to the imminent arrival of a powerful functionality that should really help rookies in particular to make the transition to a new PC.
