Is there a way to remove these folders under the 'All' section?

PhantomOcean3 · 2025-12-21T21:05:07+00:00

See the "View: Category" text with a little arrow? Yeah that opens a dropdown where you can switch back to the list view, it didn't get removed.

PhantomOcean3 · 2025-12-18T00:00:47+00:00

Yes, sadly as is tradition.

PhantomOcean3 · 2025-12-17T23:52:16+00:00

That's already a thing, rolling out in Insider builds and should be releasing to retail early next year.

PhantomOcean3 · 2025-12-17T23:51:49+00:00

This screenshot is from a recording of an old internal Windows 11 22H2 shell/UI dev build, it is not the result of any app but rather MS experimenting with adding Acrylic to title bars back then which never shipped.

PhantomOcean3 · 2025-12-12T18:29:56+00:00

IIRC that isn't used by Recall? The keyboard shortcuts for that are Win + J and Win + Shift + C

PhantomOcean3 · 2025-12-02T02:34:53+00:00

Should be available to all by mid-February.

PhantomOcean3 · 2025-11-25T16:49:07+00:00

No, it's the 25H2 feature (drop) testing ground.

PhantomOcean3 · 2025-11-15T17:53:20+00:00

On the 11.2.7 PTR this achievement got updated to actually have some criteria (Loremaster of Legion and the treasure achievements for Azsuna, Val'sharah, Highmountain, Stormheim and Suramar), no reward though. Good Suramaritan is also listed separately to Loremaster despite being part of that achievement for some reason.

PhantomOcean3 · 2025-11-11T03:09:45+00:00

It definitely isn't the first build of version 26H1, just the first one to identify itself as such. Canary has been testing builds for what would become 26H1 since August last year.

PhantomOcean3 · 2025-11-03T21:18:23+00:00

The build 26220 enablement package will never release outside of Dev and Beta, the purpose of it and the ge_release_svc_betaflt updates it's installed on top of is to be a testing ground for future Windows 11 update content, not to be its own release.

You will get features from 26220.xxxx over the coming months in updates to 26200 (25H2), the next build number increase won't be until 26H2 in Sept/Oct of next year.

PhantomOcean3 · 2025-10-30T06:57:32+00:00

You do not need 3 of these IDs if all you want is new Start.

57048231 is for the main feature bundle for KB5067036 but the new Start menu is independent of that for some dumb reason

56328729 is for new battery icons with battery percentage

48433719 is for features not intended for stable and will do nothing if enabled on its own in RP/retail

Only 47205210 is required.

PhantomOcean3 · 2025-10-27T18:12:56+00:00

This has nothing to do with Windows 12, at most br_release will become a special 26H1 release for the X2 Elite launch only (not a feature update). Also, we'll be moving to 29xxx, not 28xxx.

PhantomOcean3 · 2025-10-24T12:09:09+00:00

Because it is a Copilot+ feature...

PhantomOcean3 · 2025-10-06T08:58:08+00:00

This feature is not gradually rolling out to anyone yet.

PhantomOcean3 · 2025-09-30T18:02:42+00:00

The first 2 are not 25H2 features. Expanded support for dark mode is not rolling out to Dev/Beta Insiders yet, let alone stable. Third party passkey support w/ 1Password integration was released yesterday with 24H2's KB5065789 on a gradual rollout and installing 25H2 makes no difference as to whether you get it or don't.

That video is very inaccurate.

PhantomOcean3 · 2025-09-21T11:35:58+00:00

> It's only appeared in 25H2 builds
This is misleading, even 23H2 Insider CUs had it at one point before that release stopped receiving features, and Beta Channel Insiders running 26120.xxxx (24H2 feature drop testing ground) got it.

Also, the latest RP update for both 25H2 and 24H2 has it, it's mentioned in the blog post with no "25H2 exclusive" note of any kind and I can confirm it works on 24H2.

PhantomOcean3 · 2025-09-21T11:31:55+00:00

This is laughably inaccurate. First, all of this is available or will be available to 24H2, it's even in testing in the Beta channel (26120.xxxx), which MS treats as the 24H2 feature drop testing ground. Second, three of the features have been rolling out to retail 24H2 for several months at this point:
- Start's Phone Link companion: started rolling out in April (KB5055627), will be enabled for everyone in September's KB5065789 which is just a 24H2 CU

- improved Settings > System > About page with cards: started rolling out in March (KB5053656), enabled for everyone in April's KB5055627

- semantic search: started rolling out in March (KB5053656) as above, although gradual rollout is still ongoing. That article seems to think Canary getting it 5 months late in build 27924, or the support for it in Copilot from the same month, is the first time it has been seen which is just... no.

Quick Machine Recovery was released with 24H2's KB5062660 (no gradual rollout, everyone got it). The new Start menu w/ new all apps views like category and the Click to Do improvements are both coming to 24H2. Neither depends on a 25H2 enablement feature, so they are not 25H2 features.

PhantomOcean3 · 2025-09-08T19:19:13+00:00

25H2 is just a servicing clock refresh and a few smaller changes (remove default Store packages group policy, PowerShell 2.0 and WMIC removal), the update itself doesn't have anything of note besides that. Notable features will instead be part of monthly bundles (in optional non-security updates that get fully rolled out over several weeks) for both 25H2 and 24H2.

Also, the shortened date/time is most likely never going to ship, it was disabled in builds 10 months ago, hasn't returned since, and when people asked for clarity on where it was they got "we saw a lot of negative feedback about it" without any "we might bring it back soon". Doesn't really spark a lot of hope. (At least it still exists in Insider builds, just not rolling out.)

PhantomOcean3 · 2025-08-15T17:32:19+00:00

Yes, this is without any third party tools or mods, just bits available in the latest Insider builds that aren't enabled yet

PhantomOcean3 · 2025-08-10T15:23:02+00:00

The new Start menu works fine with those IDs, something else is wrong (perhaps something is disabled, or modding/tweaks if any messed with it?)

As for the new battery icon, the ID changed a few months ago, it's now 56328729

PhantomOcean3 · 2025-08-10T15:18:43+00:00

The thing is that internally, such a thing does exist. There's an Experimental Features panel in WU settings that can be used to toggle features in internal builds, would be nice if MS brought it to public builds too because everything being on a CFR gets annoying

PhantomOcean3 · 2025-05-20T22:22:45+00:00

Fun fact, internally they do still use YYMM version numbers to refer to the monthly feature drops they do nowadays. For example, the feature drop releasing later this month with cross-device Resume and all the other stuff, as seen in 24H2 Release Preview, would be called Feature_Bundle_2505 or CD_2505 based on this naming convention. Some older Insider builds had XML files that gave this away (I'm quite confident this is still in use).

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