Microsoft launched Home windows 11 Insider Preview Construct 22610 on Friday, a brand new construct with a resurrected characteristic that many appreciated years in the past: an “estimated time to empty” related to the battery icon within the taskbar.

The brand new construct was launched to each the Dev and Beta channels, in order that there’s an excellent likelihood that these new options can be launched to most people.

This newest preview construct doesn’t supply many new options. As a substitute, the emphasis is on fixes to the present Home windows 11 expertise: some necessary, others not. However the change to the battery icon is a small however important twist — in case your PC helps it.

At one level, Home windows 10 PCs would let you know each the proportion of your laptop computer’s battery in addition to the estimated “time to empty” simply by hovering over the battery icon, however Microsoft pulled the characteristic early in Home windows 10’s life — in all probability as a result of the estimate can dramatically change based mostly in your person habits. It seems that that can change: “In case your PC helps it, we are going to now present estimated battery life timing within the tooltip for the battery icon within the system tray with the latest Insider Preview builds,” the construct notes for Home windows 11 Construct 22610 say.

Sadly, our check machine, a Floor Laptop computer 3, doesn’t embrace the potential, so we will’t present you ways this works. Hopefully many extra laptops will start supporting it sooner or later.

Microsoft can also be making a few tweaks to its icons, together with the brand new Home windows 11 icons that the corporate added to its File Explorer menu. The “rename” icon is receiving a makeover in order that it’s clearer what it does. Others, together with the “properties” wrench icon, are being tweaked. (These have been considered one of our complaints in our authentic Home windows 11 overview.)

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Different small adjustments embrace:

• Microsoft has turned off the characteristic that spaced out taskbar icons a bit from one another whereas units just like the Floor Professional 8 are in pill mode. Microsoft mentioned it plans to refine the expertise, then convey the characteristic again.
• Process Supervisor’s highlighted warmth maps will now mirror your accent shade.

• Your Telephone has been changed with “Telephone Hyperlink” within the Settings menu, as per Microsoft’s latest renaming.
• Microsoft has additionally pulled SMB1 assist from the Dev and Beta channels. SMB1, an insecure networking protocol utilized by some outdated legacy shopper NAS units, is being faraway from Home windows. It’s disabled by default, and the binaries can be faraway from a future launch as properly. Microsoft’s Ned Pyle introduced this on April 19.

“I needed to save this Dwelling version habits for final, it’s going to trigger a shopper ache amongst of us who’re nonetheless operating very outdated tools, a bunch that’s the least prone to perceive why their new Home windows 11 laptop computer can’t hook up with their outdated networked arduous drive,” Pyle wrote. (The link hyperlinks to a casual checklist of shopper NAS units that use SMB1.)