The Update BureauBuild 27723: Windows Insider Experimental Channel, October 2024. Taskbar search file sharing and faster Voice Access spelling
Adds local-file sharing in taskbar search, improves Voice Access spelling and adds a Chinese font. Some Insiders may also encounter the listed known issues.
Does it affect you? Applies to: Devices enrolled in the Canary Channel of the Windows Insider Program.
Review notes Additional details from the official release notes (2) Read notes
- What changes Canary Channel Insider Preview builds expire on September 15, 2025, starting with Build 27695. Insiders should update to the latest Canary build.
- In detail This can affect people joining Canary on a new Copilot+ PC from Dev, Release Preview, or retail: Windows Hello PIN and biometric sign-in may fail with error 0xd0000225. You should be able to recreate the PIN by clicking “Set up my PIN.”
The official sources are linked at the end of the page.
This is a test build for people in the Windows Insider Program. Features in it can change, be removed, or never reach regular Windows releases.
What changes
Improvements 2 changes
Voice Access
For: Insiders who use Voice Access
- Spelling and corrections work throughout a Voice Access session. You can dictate characters faster and use commands to select, delete, and move through text.1
Settings
For: Insiders in the Canary Channel
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The option to detach a virtual hard disk is temporarily unavailable in Settings.2
The detach button under Settings > System > Storage > Disks & Volumes for VHD/VHDx has been temporarily disabled.
New features 2 changes
Search on the Taskbar
For: Insiders in the Canary Channel
- You can share a local file directly from the search results shown in the taskbar search box.3
Fonts
For: Insiders who use simplified Chinese characters
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A new simplified Chinese font adds characters including the one used for Biangbiang noodles.4
Simsun-ExtGincludes 9,753 ideographs supporting Unicode Extensions G, H, and I, including U+30EDD.
Technical details
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Data sheet
- Released
- 2024-10-09
- Type
- Windows Insider build
| Version | Build | Channel |
|---|---|---|
| — | 27723 | Experimental Channel |
Security
No vulnerabilities are listed for this update.
Sources
Cited passages from Microsoft's official notes (4)
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You can now use the experience for the entire voice access session. The spelling experience will now enable you to dictate the characters at a faster speed and offer more editing flexibility inside the experience with dictation commands, namely selection, deletion and text navigation commands.
blogs.windows.com -
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The detach virtual hard disk (VHD/VHDx) button we added under Settings > System > Storage > Disks & Volumes introduced with Build 27686 has temporarily been disabled starting with Build 27718.
blogs.windows.com -
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We are beginning to roll out the ability to share local files directly from within the search results shown in the search box on the taskbar.
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There is a new simplified Chinese font (Simsun-ExtG) with 9,753 ideographs supporting Unicode Extensions G, H and I. Included is the highly requested character for Biangbiang noodles.
blogs.windows.com
Checked automatically: 8 of 8 checks passed, 4 quoted passages
- Quotes found in the official pages: passed
- Numbers found in the sources: passed
- Vulnerabilities from the dossier only: passed
- Links to allowed domains only: passed
- Every official change covered: passed
- Readable plain text: passed
- Changes confirmed by the file list: passed
- Sources agree: passed
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