Microsoft is making it easier to name the user profile folder, renaming the Drag Tray feature, and expanding point-in-time restore options. These and other news on March 13 headed to Windows 11 Insider Preview in Beta channels
(revised 26220.8062) to Dev (revised 26300.8068).
Both builds also offer improvements that Microsoft introduced in the Release Preview channel a few days ago. This is, for example, the identification of screens whose refresh rate exceeds 1000 Hz. We deal with them in a separate article.
About the possibility specify the name of the user profile folder we wrote a few months ago. When Microsoft introduced such an option during the installation of Windows 11, you had to use the command line. And it is this barrier that will fall.
You enter the name of the user profile folder at this point in the wizard
You specify the name of the folder during the initial setup when the wizard gives you a space to name your computer. Just click on the added link and the field in which you enter the desired name will expand. You won’t get that opportunity later.
Restore to a specific point in time belongs to last year’s novelties, which are mainly intended to help companies restore computers where Windows does not start. (This is another spin-off from the Crowdstrike case.) First introduced to the Insider program in late November, it allows you to roll back to a restore point—and therefore a working system. It hides in the Windows RE blue menu.
Modified appearance of the Restore to a specific point in time environment
It uses the Volume Shadow Copy service for backup and also saves the home computer when, for example, a driver or system update fails. Microsoft modified the feature environment. The settings are now concentrated in a dialog that can only be accessed after the User Account Control (UAC) prompt.
Compared to the current state, the restore points stored on the computer will be displayed here. In the environment of the recovery itself, a recommendation has been added to connect the computer to power, and mainly it informs in greater detail about the version of the system to which you will return.
The Drag Tray function se renames it to Drop Tray. In the previous build, the sharing panel shrunk to be less of a distraction. For the record – Microsoft refers to the function in the Czech version of Windows 11 as “drag tray”. I am attaching a picture as proof Settings. Apparently this is a literal and probably machine translation that doesn’t make sense. We can only guess how the name will change in Czech.
“Drag Tray” will move to the System | section Multitasking
You can turn off the “bin”. In stable Windows 11, you do so in Settings | System | Contactless sharing. But with revisions 26220.8062 and 26300.8068, the settings are moved to the System | Multitasking. You can find the full list of changes on the Windows Insider blog.
