Home windows 11 has obtained a brand new cumulative replace which applies some vital fixes to the taskbar, and in addition resolves a problem that has been bothering some PC players for a protracted, very long time (we’ll come again to that).
Patch KB5022845 (opens in new tab) has now been deployed, containing all of the tweaks and modifications that had been made within the preview of this replace (which was launched late in January).
As made clear in Microsoft’s patch notes (opens in new tab), it features a long-awaited repair for players. Home windows 11 has been behaving relatively oddly for these with a sport controller hooked as much as their PC, in that the system could not enter sleep mode attributable to that peripheral being related. Effectively, all that’s a distant reminiscence now because the remedy has lastly been applied right here.
On prime of this, there are additionally options to a number of niggling issues in search performance with Home windows 11.
The principle one is that when looking for picture information utilizing the taskbar search, there’s a bug that forestalls opening the pic within the photograph enhancing app of your selection; and that glitch has now been fastened.
An extra difficulty that stopped customers from looking for a file by way of its contents has additionally been resolved.
There are a bunch of different fixes for minor points right here, outlined in full within the launch notes, and a few safety measures utilized as anticipated with these month-to-month patches.
Evaluation: A tough repair, it appears
The sport controller-related flaw – which additionally stops the screensaver from kicking in, in addition to stopping sleep mode – is an odd bug certainly, affecting not simply gamepads however the likes of flight controllers. It’s a problem that has dogged Home windows 10 customers persistently previously too, and certainly, there have been fairly a lot of stories (opens in new tab) on-line about this downside over the previous couple of years (with bug stories that may be traced again to the very launch of Home windows 10 (opens in new tab), the truth is).
Why has it taken Microsoft so very lengthy to resolve this, then? Effectively, that’s a query we will’t reply, however we guess it will need to have been a deeply embedded difficulty that took some work to unpick. (Both that, or it fell off precedence lists and disappeared right into a chasm of inaction for some years).
Higher late than by no means with the repair, in fact, though on this case, Microsoft has pushed the appropriate bounds of the definition of ‘late’ to extremes. Hopefully this repair will come to Home windows 10 quickly sufficient, and certainly it’s additionally notable that we’ve seen feedback on-line from some affected PC homeowners that this repair alone has prompted them to improve to Home windows 11 (or nudged them off the fence, doubtless).
In lately of spiralling power costs and the cost-of-living disaster, players can likely sick afford for his or her system to not be sleeping when it needs to be.
