- Windows 11’s July update is now released
- It offers a number of new features and adjustments
- There are also some important solutions, especially for players
Windows 11 24H2 has a new update and it is a heavy affair that wraps a lot of features adding and some important fixes.
What goodies can you expect the cumulative update for July? I will briefly summarize some of the modifications deployed here – and these fixes – first of all, before choosing some personal strengths here in terms of larger movements with the introduction of new features.
It should also be recalled that the officially known update under the name of KB5062553 has features on progressive deployment, you may not see everything on your PC after applying the fix-but rest assured, all of this is in the pipeline.
On changes, one of which is a faster native decompression of the files under Explorer file (your office folders).
There are also some adjustments for the Windows Share interface, which allows you to easily share files via a range of applications. First of all, it now offers a visual overview of any shared web content. Second, for images, there is also a file compression available on the tap, allowing you to quickly reduce the size of a image to a predefined level (low, medium or high), which makes it faster and easier to share with someone else.
Regarding the fixes, there is a lot of work that PC players will appreciate, including the resolution of a problem by which the playing alt could spoil the mouse cursor (if the resolution of the game was different from that of the office). There is also a corrective for the Allages of a complete game, which makes certain applications freeze.
In addition, Microsoft healed cases where “resets of the display” – which means that the monitor screen has been getting black for a few seconds – have disturbed people, including during the game.
Other fixes include the crushing of a bug where Windows could change their size and its position after a device has awakened from sleep, and a problem where during the trail of a window around the desktop, the file explorer could crash.
Then here are my strengths for the new features delivered – or about to be delivered – with the July update for Windows 11.
1. Honey, I narrowed the icons from the taskbar
Microsoft made a small but hitting an adjustment with the taskbar. The idea is that when you open more applications and the taskbar becomes a more congested place, the bar icons are shrinking automatically. This means that you can see more applications and icons in these scenarios (rather than making them overflow on a separate panel), which is quite clever.
That said, looking at the comments of this change, not everyone wants narrowed icons. The right thing is that if you fall into this category, you can simply deactivate this behavior and make the icons act as they do now.
2. Accessibility goodies
Vocal access is a feature that I always use from time to time (although I used it much more when I suffered from RSI for a few years in the past), and the July patch brings with it the possibility of adding personalized words to the dictionary. It is an interesting feature that was present in the Dragon Dragon Word software (on which voice access is built), and it is good to see it appear in Windows 11.
Microsoft has also added a confidentiality functionality for the Windows 11 screen reading tool, narrator, which is called the “screen curtain”. This means that while Narrator reads the contents of the screen, the screen is blackened, so in public, no one can take a look at your shoulder to a potentially sensitive or confidential material. You will of course need to use headphones to listen to the content being reported in private.
3. Bécession, Edge
This update makes a change relating to navigators which, unfortunately, will only be for people in Europe like me. This is a simple adjustment, which means that Windows 11 will now link your default browser chosen to all types of files open in a web browser. Isn’t that already the case? Well, no, not for more obscure formats, and what it means is sometimes that you get edges when these files are accessible.
So that means less edge in your face in these scenarios, which must be a good thing. For those in Europe, it is – and why is this change limited to this region? Because it is linked to European data regulations, which unfortunately means those of the United States, or elsewhere, will not obtain the benefit of this roof. This is something that Microsoft should change in my opinion, but I don’t think it happens.
4. PC-PC migration
This is a feature that is part of the Windows backup application that I am very happy to see, because it would allow people to easily go from an old PC to a new. It will make all the groan for you, by transferring your files and your installation through (with the two machines connected to the same network).
However, there is a great warning – at this stage, we just get a “first overview” of the functionality. Currently, it is not really functional, but the shell of the PC migration capacity is now in place. This means that it should be on the way soon (in a future update ” that tells us), and you can bet that Microsoft wants this probably well before Windows 10 expiration (in October 2025, when the support is exhausted).
So what I am happy here is that it signals the imminent arrival of a new (hopefully) functionality that should really help novices in particular to make the transition to a new PC.
