- Microsoft has just implemented two new preview buildings for Windows 11
- One of these enhances File Explorer in dark mode and another increases its performance
- There is also a useful change for some assignment line flight panels, but it is not the great taskbar -movement that some people have fought for
Microsoft is working to improve both the appearance and performance of File Explorer in the latest preview versions of Windows 11, as well as introduce a highly sought-out feature to TaskBar Flyout panels.
In the new Preview -Build released in the DEV channel, Microsoft notes that it has made Windows 11’s Dark Mode more consistent to apply to several parts of File Explorer (the app that drives the folders you use on the desktop).
This means that now (in testing) is applied to dark condition on the panels that appear in File Explorer when you copy, move or delete files, and also in dialog boxes for confirmations (which okay to delete a deletion or skip a file copy as the item is already found in the destination folder).
Error pop-ups now also appear in dark mode and status beams (percentage is also complete). All of these elements in File Explorer are at the moment, because they still have white backgrounds, even with Dark Mode turned on. If all this sounds pretty well known, it’s because these changes were previously spotted hidden in test buildings.
Elsewhere in another new building in the Canary Channel (the earliest test platform for Windows 11), Microsoft explains that it has: “Made some underlying changes to help improve the performance of Launching Sky Files from File Explorer and Loading Context Menu.”
Context menus are the ones that appear when right-clicking a file, and they may be slow loading that goes by some reports from frustrated Windows 11 users who rightly complain about the file researcher’s performance in general.
In this Canary Build, Microsoft reveals that: “We are pleased to introduce a highly requested setting, the possibility of moving the hardware indicators for brightness, volume, aircraft mode and virtual desktops to different positions on your screen.”
So this is a taskbar-related fine-tuning, as it applies to panels (hardware indicators) for settings that are accessed in this beam (mostly from the system tray, to the right of the taskbar).
What Microsoft allows you to do here is to change where these flyout panels appear. By default in Windows 11, they are called at the bottom of the desktop, but new settings make it possible to adjust the location to the top center or top left if you prefer.
Analysis: And while you are at it, Microsoft …
I don’t want to be overcritical to Microsoft, but I have a slight sneaky with regard to the latter change, albeit a rather tangent.
Okay, so there is no doubt that this is a great feature to add, especially for repositioning the volume beam so that it does not hide captions or subtitles at the bottom of the screen in movies or games when adjusting the volume. Better adjustment choices for the desktop is definitely a blessing as well.
But if you want to talk about “very requested” features for the taskbar and its related flyouts, the most important bugbear is for some inability to move the bar itself. In Windows 10 it is possible to move the taskbar away from the bottom of the screen to find it at the sides or top – but you are stuck with the rod at the bottom of the desktop in Windows 11.
Will Microsoft ever apply the often sought -after change that some people have been fighting ever since the wrapping was taken by Windows 11? It is starting to feel like it will not happen, frankly, and it is confusing that this functionality was not transferred to the newer OS in the first place (without a doubt for technical reasons under the hood).
Don’t get me wrong, I am very pleased with the adaptation of TaskBar flights, even if I question why the volume was ever placed at the foot of the screen anyway, considering that this is inevitably where captions or subtitles are placed. (In Windows 10 you can’t move these sliding panels-but the volume appears by default at the top left, not at the foot of the screen).
As for File Explorer performance, the work seen here is part of an ongoing drive from Microsoft to improve the responsiveness of this area of Windows 11 interface. I keep my fingers crossed, as well as faster right-click in menu performance, the adjustments to pee up “launching sky files” can help the overall speed of file explorer, as some have theorized that synchronization of cloud files is one of the most important factors that slow down things for some Windows 11 users. (And Microsoft has even admitted that there are problems here, without specifically relating them to archive Explorer).
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