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Same for Canary's Br path, 28020.1673

Update: Beta candidate got a revision, 26220.7932 now cooking.

Cooking
🐦 29538.1000 + 28020.1672
🧑‍💻 26300.7936
🐟 26220.7931

Make Print Screen key yieldable

This policy setting determines whether the Print Screen key can be yielded to other applications.

If you enable this policy setting, the print Screen key can be intercepted by applications, allowing them to override the default screenshot functionality.

26300.7877

"Other Users" settings page in Windows 11. Among the options for the user "Test" is "Account name".

The option to change user account name is finally being migrated from Control Panel to Settings. Here it is in 26300.7877, doesn't work just yet (see duplicated "Change account *type*" button that opens the dialog for changing between standard user and administrator)

For Canary Insiders who didn't move to 29xxx: build 28020.1619 coming later today.

Also:
🧑‍💻 26300.7877 + 🐟 26220.7872

These first made an appearance in 252xx, were removed from Insider builds in ge_release (260xx) and made a return in build 27744, being disabled by default all that time. Only now are they finally shipping on by default

Reset this PC dialog in Windows 11. It asks the user to choose between keeping their files and removing everything.

Final page of the "Go back to earlier build" flow in Windows 11's Settings app, thanking the user for trying out the currently installed preview build and letting them go back with a button in the bottom right hand corner.

Undocumented change in Canary build 29531: the modernized reset this PC and go back to earlier build dialogs are now enabled out of box.

YouTube video by phantomofearth Windows 11 Canary Build 29531 (Krypton): What's New?

Quick video on build 29531 youtu.be/yOuEzgtL_xg

To enable the changes yourself:

Return of top cards, most UI changes reverted, storage info under device info:
vivetool /enable /id:60597402 (AboutPage_TopCard_V2), requires 59265307 as well

Graphics card info in device info:
vivetool /enable /id:60825171 (GraphicsCardInAbout)

Settings > System > About in Windows 11. Top cards are visible at the top, showing key specs like CPU, RAM, and GPU. Below that is the PC name ("Win11-VM"), and below that is a device info section listing various specs, including graphics card ("VMware SVGA 3D (4 MB)") and storage ("44 GB of 256 GB used").

Hidden in 26220.7859: more changes to Settings > System > About. The additions from late last year are mostly being reverted (except for the Storage link in related), so top cards are back.

Storage and graphics card info is also being added under device info, like in Win10.

YouTube video by phantomofearth Windows 11 February 2026 Update (KB5077241): What's New?

Video on the February feature bundle (KB5077241/26200.7918) youtu.be/Gc2sAj5wj1Y

For anyone wondering if we'll get 26220.7857/KB5077223 for Beta again, a newer revision of it is being tested and that might actually go out to Insiders intentionally. (26220.7859)

Build 26300.7864, yesterday's seemingly unintentional (now pulled) Dev build, includes updated point-in-time restore settings. Now in a dialog instead of an entire subpage, and requires you to click Yes on a UAC prompt.

Windows Server vNext build 29531 desktop, with Winver (About Windows) open.

Hello 29xxx

Cooking for the coming week:
🐦 28020.1611
🧑‍💻 26300.7760
🐟 26220.7755

Looks like 26220.7724 might be skipped in favor of the newer .7752

Cooking:
🐦 28020.1546
🧑‍💻 26300.7733
🐟 26220.7724

YouTube video by phantomofearth Windows 11 January/February 2026 Update (KB5074105): What's New?

Video on KB5074105 youtu.be/wJeQtO9W5is

Privacy & security settings in Windows 11, with a hero control at the top showing Windows Security, as well as location, camera and microphone permission info. Below that is a list of subpages, with at a glance info shown for some of them (e.g. 2 apps [allowed to use screenshot borders] next to "screenshot borders".)

The upcoming revamped L1 privacy settings page has been updated in recent builds, it now has a hero control featuring Windows Security. At a glance info is also shown next to each subpage (e.g. how many apps are allowed to use text and image gen.)

Taskbar settings in Windows 11. "Share any window from my taskbar with virtual assistant" is on, and lists two supported apps (Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot), both with their toggles for this feature turned on.

New "Share any window from my taskbar with virtual assistant" toggle in taskbar settings hidden in recent builds

Virtual Workspaces settings in Windows 11. The toggle for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is on.

A toggle for WSL is being added to Settings > System > Advanced > Virtual Workspaces.

Resume settings in Windows 11, with WhatsApp listed as one of the apps that can use the feature.

WhatsApp Resume is coming soon, toggle for it already seems to be gradually rolling out (feature ID49059846, ID... well... 49059846).

Four dialogs for Windows protected print mode, two in dark mode and two in light mode. In each pair, one dialog asks the user if they want to turn on WPP mode and warns that it will remove incompatible printers, while the other asks if they want to turn it off and warns that it allows printers with outdated security standards to be used.

Also quietly rolling out are updated dialogs for turning Windows protected print mode on/off, here they are in both light and dark mode (feature Print_PlatformStabilizationFixes_2026_Wave1, ID 57741219)

Also quietly rolling out are updated dialogs for turning Windows protected print mode on/off, here they are in both light and dark mode (feature Print_PlatformStabilizationFixes_2026_Wave1, ID 57741219)

Three dialogs in Windows 11 build 26300.7674, each is a confirmation prompt for different stages of the VHD creation process (Create, Attach, Initialize Volume) and asks the user to confirm that they requested these actions. The dialogs match the Windows 11 UI and are in light mode.

Light mode

The effort to update older-look Settings dialogs like this started in 2022, so shipping more old-look dialogs 3 years in is definitely one of the choices of all time.

Three dialogs in Windows 11 build 26300.7674, each is a confirmation prompt for different stages of the VHD creation process (Create, Attach, Initialize Volume) and asks the user to confirm that they requested these actions. The dialogs match the Windows 11 UI and are in dark mode.

Undocumented change in the latest Dev and Beta builds (.767x) - the create/attach/initialize VHD confirmation dialogs in Settings have been rejuvenated to be more consistent with the Windows 11 UI.

Why MS shipped these with the older design in *2025* is beyond me.

This change is not in 28020.1495, despite what the blog post says. It's not "present and simply disabled" either, it straight up is not there. 🙃

"In recent Canary builds we added the capability to set .webp images for your desktop background..."

This change has been around since 2788x (if not earlier, I haven't checked everything). You know, over half a year ago. But sure, "recent".