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support ■ Microsoft has added support for some additional shortcuts:
○ Ctrl+Shift+N will open a new Notepad window.
○ Ctrl+Shift+S will open the Save as… dialog.
○ Ctrl+W will close the current Notepad window.
■ Notepad can now open and save files with a path that is longer than 260 characters, also known as
MAX_PATH.
■ Microsoft has fixed a bug where Notepad would count lines incorrectly for documents with very long lines.
■ Microsoft has fixed a bug where, when you select a placeholder file from OneDrive in the File Open dialog,
■ Microsoft would download the file to determine its encoding.
■ Microsoft has fixed a recent regression where Notepad would no longer create a new file when launched
with a file path that didn’t exist.
■ Microsoft has improved the performance when opening large files in Notepad.
■ Notepad now supports Ctrl + Backspace to delete the previous word.
■ Arrow keys now correctly unselect text first and then move the cursor.
■ When saving a file in Notepad, the line and column number no longer reset to 1.
■ Notepad now correctly displays lines that don’t fit entirely on the screen.
CHANGES TO YOUR ACCOUNT PICTURE IN WINDOWSChanging the picture for the account you use to sign in to Windows is now better than ever! Your updated picture will now show up quickly across Windows, apps, and many of the Microsoft sites you use every day. Previously, you might see as many as three or four different pictures for your account in different apps and sites at one time. It’s super easy to try out – just go to Your info in Windows settings and change your picture there!
Steps 1. Open “Your info” in Windows settings by pressing the Windows key, and typing “Your info,” and selecting
“Your account info.”
2. Use the options in ‘Create your picture’ to select a new picture for your account.
3. Check if your picture has been updated in Windows, and on the sites and apps, you use.
Note: Microsoft is still working with many sites and apps that will need to be updated to work well with this new feature. For example, the account manager control that appears in the upper right of many Microsoft websites currently updates every 24 hours. This will be changed in the next few months to update quickly when your account picture changes.
WINDOWS SEARCH IMPROVEMENTSHere are some of the server-side search improvements Microsoft has been rolling out based on the user feedback:
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Improved spell correction for Apps & Settings searches. Windows Search has built-in spell correction
to help you find what you’re looking for. When you’re typing quickly sometimes mistakes happen –
Microsoft is excited to announce that Microsoft has updated our spell correction technology to intelligently
understand and correct small typos like “PowerPoint” and “exce;” which previously would return no
results. With these updates, you get better results faster. This feature is now available on both Insider and
retail builds in English-language markets.
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Hints to improve Best match results. Microsoft’s goal with Windows Search is to provide a simple to
use experience and a key aspect of this is making results easy to understand. Something Microsoft has
heard from users is that sometimes settings search results don’t match your search. To help address this,
in certain cases where the Best match result isn’t an exact match for your search, a “Related:” line will be
included below the result to help clarify why this result is appearing. Microsoft will be expanding this
feature to include Apps search in the coming weeks. This feature is now available on both Insider and
retail builds in English (United States).
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Bringing the latest Search Home experience to more users. With the Windows 10 May 2019 Update
Microsoft updated Search Home to help you save time by adding quick access to your Top apps and Recent
activities. After receiving positive feedback and comments about this new experience, Microsoft is now
making it available to more users by rolling it out to everyone using the Windows 10 October 2018 Update
as well. Here’s a glance at what it looks like for those on the Windows 10 October 2018 Update:
A REDESIGNED NETWORK STATUS PAGE IN SETTINGSBased on your feedback, Microsoft is revamping the Network & Internet landing page in Settings to provide more information at a glance about your device’s connectivity, combining several pages to give you one clear view of how you are connected to the internet.
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New view of active connections: Microsoft now shows all available connection interfaces on the
Status page, so you can quickly see what is connected and view and change properties as needed. If you
have multiple connections, only one will be used for internet connectivity at a time, and that one is still
shown in the Status diagram at the top of the page.
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Integrated Data Usage: As you may have noticed in the picture above, you can now see how much
data is being used by a network right from the Status page! If it looks like you’re using a lot of data, you
can drill into the Data Usage page to create a limit for that network, which will warn you if you get close or
go over your limit. You can also see how much data each app is using on that network.
QUICK EVENT CREATE FROM THE TASKBARYou can now quickly create an event straight from the Calendar flyout on the Taskbar. Just select the date and time at the lower right corner of the Taskbar to open the Calendar flyout and pick your desired date and start typing in the text box. You’ll then see inline options to set a time and location.
REFINING YOUR NOTIFICATION SETTINGSOne thing Microsoft has heard from users, though, is that our notification settings aren’t easily discoverable. In addition, once you find the settings, they can be difficult to understand. In order to address this, Microsoft has begun rolling out a few changes, including:
1. When you receive a notification toast, there will now be an inline option to turn off notifications for that
app, or head to the app’s notification settings.
2. When you dive into an app’s notification settings, you’ll find that Microsoft has added pictures to help
articulate the impact of certain settings.
3. Prefer to have all your notifications muted? You no longer have to go to the old sound control panel to do
that – Microsoft has added it as a top-level option in Notification & Actions Settings.
4. Microsoft has also added a new direct link at the top of the Action Center to manage notifications, so it
takes one less step to get to Notification & Actions Settings. To make room for this Microsoft has moved
the “no notifications” text down to the middle of the Action Center, which also means your eyes don’t
have to traverse as far as to see it when you launch the Action Center from the bottom of the screen.
5. Finally, ever dismissed a notification you wanted to disable, and went to Notification & Actions Settings
only to find the list of notification senders to be really really long? You can now sort the list by which apps
most recently sent notifications.
FEEDBACK HUB UPDATESBased on your feedback, Microsoft is updating the Feedback Hub with a new feature called Find Similar Feedback! When you go to log a new piece of feedback, you’ll now see a section that looks to see if there’s any existing feedback that sounds similar to yours. You can now choose to automatically link your feedback to that existing feedback (rather than creating a new piece of feedback).
Microsoft has also updated the Thank You page a little bit, so that now there’s a direct button to share your feedback if that’s what you want do (rather than having to go find your feedback afterwards in the My Feedback section).
NEW DOWNLOAD THROTTLING OPTIONS FOR DELIVERY OPTIMIZATIONMicrosoft has heard from our users with very low connection speeds that setting download throttling as a percentage of available bandwidth isn’t providing enough relief in reducing the impact on their network. That’s why Microsoft has added a new option to throttle the bandwidth used by Delivery Optimization as an absolute value. You can set this separately for Foreground downloads (downloads that you initiate from Windows Store for example) or background downloads. This option already exists for IT Pros who use Group Policies or MDM policies to configure Delivery Optimization. You can access this option via
Settings >
Update & Security >
Delivery Optimization >
Advanced Options
WINDOWS INK WORKSPACE UPDATESAs part of this, Windows Ink Workspace now takes up less screen real estate, and Microsoft is converging its whiteboarding experiences with a new direct link to our Microsoft Whiteboard app. Microsoft Whiteboard is a freeform digital canvas where ideas, content, and people can come together. It includes an infinite canvas, optional backgrounds (including graph paper and solid dark grey) to choose from, rainbow ink support, multiple pages, and generally addresses much of the feedback you shared with Microsoft about Sketchpad. If you used Sketchpad, don’t worry – Microsoft saved the sketch you were working on in your Pictures folder.
DISK TYPE NOW VISIBLE IN TASK MANAGER PERFORMANCE TABA small, but perhaps convenient change — you’ll now be able to see the disk type (e.g. SSD) for each disk listed in Task Manager’s performance tab. This is particularly helpful in cases where you have multiple disks listed, so you can differentiate between them.
UPDATED FILE EXPLORER SEARCHMicrosoft has heard the feedback asking for increased consistency, and to make it easier to find your files. This change will help integrate your OneDrive content online with the traditional indexed results.
What does that mean for you? Once you have the new experience, as you type in File Explorer’s search box, you’ll now see a dropdown populated with suggested files at your fingertips that you can pick from.
These improved results can be launched directly by clicking the entry in the new suggestions box, or if you want to open the file location, just right-click the entry and there’ll be an option to do so. If you need to use commands or dig deeper into non-indexed locations, you can still press enter and populate the view with the traditional search results.
Microsoft has also updated the design, so now as soon as you click the search box in File Explorer (or press CTRL+E to set focus to it), you’ll see the dropdown list with your search history.
NOTE: You may notice in the screenshot, Microsoft has made the File Explorer search box wider so the suggestions dropdown has a bit more room to show results – that’s not a new option.
EXPANDING DICTATION SUPPORT TO MORE LANGUAGESEver had a word that you just can’t figure out how to spell? Or like to think out loud and wanna automatically jot it all down? In addition to English (United States), Microsoft now supports dictation when using English (Canada), English (UK), English (Australia), English (India), French (France), French (Canada), German (Germany), Italian (Italy), Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Mexico), Portuguese (Brazil), and Chinese (Simplified, China)
How to try it? Set focus on a text field and press WIN+H! Or you can tap the little microphone button at the top of the touch keyboard. Say what you wanna say, then press WIN+H a second time or tap the mic button to stop the dictation, or let the dictation session time out on its own.
Notes:
■ Speech resources will need to be downloaded for dictation to work. To check that they’re available, go to
Language Settings, click on the desired language and then click on Options. If speech resources are
available but haven’t been downloaded, there should be a download button.
■ Dictation is based on the language of your active keyboard. To switch between preferred languages, press
WIN + Space.
CROSS-LANGUAGE SUPPORT IN FEEDBACK HUBBased on your feedback, with Feedback Hub version 1.1903, Insiders with Windows set to a language other than English now have the option of browsing English feedback within the Feedback Hub, as well as submitting feedback in English on the New Feedback form.
BRINGING SWIFTKEY’S TYPING INTELLIGENCE TO EVEN MORE LANGUAGESAs many of you know, Microsoft has been working on bringing SwiftKey’s typing intelligence to Windows. Microsoft is announcing the support to these 39 languages:
Afrikaans (South Africa), Albanian (Albania), Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Armenian (Armenia), Azerbaijani (Azerbaijan), Basque (Spain), Bulgarian (Bulgaria), Catalan (Spain), Croatian (Croatia), Czech (Czech Republic), Danish (Denmark), Dutch (Netherlands), Estonian (Estonia), Finnish (Finland), Galician (Spain), Georgian (Georgia), Greek (Greece), Hausa (Nigeria), Hebrew (Israel), Hindi (India), Hungarian (Hungary), Indonesian (Indonesia), Kazakh (Kazakhstan), Latvian (Latvia), Lithuanian (Lithuania), Macedonian (Macedonia), Malay (Malaysia), Norwegian (Bokmal, Norway), Persian (Iran), Polish (Poland), Romanian (Romania), Serbian (Serbia), Serbian (Serbia), Slovak (Slovakia), Slovenian (Slovenia), Swedish (Sweden), Turkish (Turkey), Ukrainian (Ukraine), Uzbek (Uzbek)
What does this mean for you? Basically, Microsoft is updating the underlying language model when typing in each of these languages, to improve the accuracy of the autocorrections, shape writing, and predictions. You’d notice this when using the touch keyboard, or the hardware keyboard text predictions (if enabled). If you use these languages above to type, help Microsoft make your typing experience even better by sharing feedback! (
being as specific as possible, if you can). Microsoft will be posting a Quest about this improvement in the Feedback Hub soon.
IMPROVED WINDOWS SANDBOX ACCESSIBILITYMicrosoft has made several updates to improve Windows Sandbox accessibility scenarios. This includes:
■ Microphone support
■ Added functionality to configure the audio input device via the Windows Sandbox config file
■ A Shift + Alt + PrintScreen key sequence in Windows Sandbox which activates the ease of access dialog for enabling high contrast mode.
■ A ctrl + alt + break key sequence in Windows Sandbox which allows entering/exiting fullscreen mode
WHEN WILL WINDOWS 10 VERSION 2004 ROLLOUT TO USERS?Microsoft is yet to announce the official rollout dates of Windows 10 version 2004. Seeing Microsoft’s previous track record, it’s safe to assume that the company will be rolling the update out in phases spread around a couple of months. This will also allow Microsoft to act quicker if in case something goes wrong with the update.
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