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Build 27749: Windows Insider Experimental Channel, November 2024. Narrator clipboard shortcut and portrait RAW thumbnail fix

In short

Adds a Narrator shortcut to copy spoken text and includes fixes for File Explorer, audio, and other components. The notes also list five known issues.

Does it affect you? Applies to: Devices enrolled in the Windows Insider Program’s Canary Channel.

Build
27749
Review notes Additional details from the official release notes (1) Read note
  • In detail When joining Canary on a new Copilot+ PC from the Dev Channel, Release Preview Channel, or retail, users will lose Windows Hello PIN and biometric sign-in.

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

Fixes 14 changes

File Explorer

2 items
  • Navigation pane items no longer have unexpectedly large gaps between them for some people.1
  • Thumbnails for portrait-mode RAW photos no longer unexpectedly appear in landscape orientation.2

Taskbar & System Tray

For: Canary Channel Insiders using auto-hide and the taskbar search box

  • When the taskbar is set to auto-hide and taskbar search is set to “Search box,” the search box now appears.3

Input

For: Canary Channel Insiders using the pointer-location option

  • The circles that appear when you press Ctrl to locate the pointer are no longer tiny on high-DPI monitors.4
    Updates the “Show location of pointer when I press the CTRL key” mouse option so its circles are DPI-aware.

Narrator

3 items
  • Narrator no longer slows down after 15 minutes of continuous use with a single application.5
  • Narrator no longer adds an extra “contains style” announcement when focused on styled text in apps such as Microsoft Edge, Teams, and Outlook.6
  • Some Narrator dialogs now follow Windows’ 200% text scaling setting.7
    The fix applies to a few dialogs in Narrator.

Task Manager

For: Canary Channel Insiders

  • Task Manager no longer shows a count of zero for apps and processes.8

Audio

For: Some Canary Channel Insiders

  • Audio on some devices no longer unexpectedly goes to 100% when the PC starts or wakes from sleep.9

Settings > Privacy

For: Canary Channel Insiders

  • Clicking a blank entry in Settings > Privacy no longer crashes Settings.10

Git

  • An issue that prevented Git from working for Insiders with Arm PCs in the previous build is mitigated.11

Windows

For: Some Canary Channel Insiders

  • An issue that could cause a KERNEL_MODE_HEAP_CORRUPTION bugcheck in the previous build is fixed for some Insiders.12

Domain joining

For: Canary Channel Insiders

  • An issue that could prevent a device from joining a domain is fixed.13

DirectAccess

For: Canary Channel Insiders using DirectAccess

  • DirectAccess no longer fails to work or stays stuck in a connecting state.14

Improvement 1 change

Narrator

For: Canary Channel Insiders using Narrator with Outlook

  • Narrator now reads the contents of mail in the new Outlook app automatically, as it does in Outlook classic.15

New feature 1 change

Narrator

For: Canary Channel Insiders using Narrator

  • A new keyboard shortcut copies Narrator’s last spoken phrase to the clipboard.16
    Use Narrator key + Ctrl + X. Narrator key + X repeats the last spoken phrase aloud.

Technical details

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Data sheet

Released
2024-11-13
Type
Windows Insider build
VersionBuildChannel
— 27749 Experimental Channel

Security

No vulnerabilities are listed for this update.

Sources

Updated
Cited passages from Microsoft's official notes (16)
  1. 1. Fixed an issue which was causing the items in the navigation pane to become very spread out (with unexpected padding between each item) for some people. blogs.windows.com
  2. 2. Fixed an underlying issue which was causing RAW images taken in portrait mode to unexpectedly display in landscape mode thumbnails. blogs.windows.com
  3. 3. Made a change so you will now see a search box if the taskbar auto-hides when the setting for search on the taskbar is set to “Search box” (rather than an icon). blogs.windows.com
  4. 4. Updated the mouse option “Show location of pointer when I press the CTRL key”, so that the circles displayed are now DPI-aware, and aren’t really small on high DPI monitors. blogs.windows.com
  5. 5. We have addressed a performance issue where Narrator would slow down after 15 minutes of continuous use with a single application. blogs.windows.com
  6. 6. Fixed an issue where Narrator would add an additional announcement “contains style” whenever its focus is on text that has styling attributes such as bullets, numbers across applications such as Microsoft Edge, Teams, Outlook, etc. blogs.windows.com
  7. 7. Fixed an issue where few dialogs in Narrator were not adopting the 200% text scaling setting in Windows. blogs.windows.com
  8. 8. Fixed an issue causing Task Manager to show a 0 count for apps and processes. blogs.windows.com
  9. 9. Fixed an underlying issue that could lead to the audio on certain audio devices unexpectedly going to 100% on boot or after sleep. blogs.windows.com
  10. 10. Fixed a blank entry in Settings > Privacy, which was crashing Settings if you clicked it. blogs.windows.com
  11. 11. Mitigated an issue resulting in Git not working for Insiders with Arm PCs in the previous flight. blogs.windows.com
  12. 12. Fixed an issue causing some insiders to see a bugcheck with KERNEL_MODE_HEAP_CORRUPTION in the previous flight. blogs.windows.com
  13. 13. Fixed an underlying issue which could potentially lead to not being able to join a domain. blogs.windows.com
  14. 14. Fixed an issue where DirectAccess wasn’t working and might stay stuck in a connecting state. blogs.windows.com
  15. 15. Narrator will now auto-read contents of a mail in the new Outlook app similar to behavior in Outlook classic. blogs.windows.com
  16. 16. We have added a new shortcut “Narrator key + control + X” to copy what Narrator last spoke to clipboard. blogs.windows.com
Checked automatically: 8 of 8 checks passed, 16 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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