🔄 Insider Updates 🔵Windows 11 builds 26100.

🔄 Insider Updates

🔵Windows 11 builds 26100.9267 and 26200.9267, Release Preview channel, KB5120998. The update adds taskbar placement options at the top, bottom, left, or right, a smaller taskbar option, and a default expanded Taskbar Behavior section. It also improves system tray stability on PCs without touchscreens.

The Start menu now supports small or large layouts, renames Recommended to Recent, lets users hide their name and profile picture, and adds switches for Pinned, Recommended, and All sections. Search now looks simpler, shows clearer result sources, and can include web results and Microsoft Store suggestions. Windows also indexes frequently used folders automatically.

🔵 Windows 11 build 28000.2796, KB5120996, Release Preview . The update improves File Explorer, Search, Voice Access, Widgets, touchpad gestures, and the Start menu, while also fixing display, stability, and reliability issues across the system.

File Explorer now shows file sizes in KB, MB, or GB in Table view, and it supports middle click opening of folders in new tabs from the address bar and Home page. Search now handles typos and incomplete app names better, and it ranks settings results more effectively.

Voice Access adds Voice Isolation, Korean language support, and improved launch reliability. The update also changes taskbar notification icons to use the Windows accent color, simplifies Lock Screen widgets for new users, improves Windows Hello with peripheral fingerprint scanner support, and lets users uninstall the Image Generation AI component on supported Copilot+ PCs.