Windows 10 preview build 17120 makes its way to the Slow ring

After shipping out to Windows Insiders on the Fast ring earlier this week, Windows x preview build 17120 is now available for Insiders on the Slow ring. This makes the second build to striking Microsoft's more leisurely Insider release branch in the by week, and information technology brings a scattering of new features and improvements. Here'south a recap.

What'south New

Windows Defender Application Guard (WDAG) Improvements

The Windows Defender Application Guard (WDAG) Team has introduced new improvements for users to have a better feel with our upcoming release. We take combed through our user feedback and acted to ensure your needs are met. On summit of meaning operation improvements, we accept added an ability to download documents highlighted beneath.

Performance improvements: The teams at Microsoft are constantly working to amend performance for our users. Windows Defender Application Guard is no unlike. In this upcoming feature update, y'all volition observe an improvement in the launch time for Awarding Guard. We accept made the kickoff process lighter and faster, which will provide our users with a better experience when accessing Microsoft Border in Windows Defender Application Guard.

Download files to the host: One of the items our users voiced was an inability to "download files from within WDAG" to the host. This created an inconsistent experience for Border overall as downloaded files were stuck inside the container. In this release, users can turn on a feature to download files from their WDAG browsing session onto the host file organisation. This feature is bachelor in the Windows ten Enterprise edition and must be turned on. In one case the feature is enabled, users volition be able to download files into a folder created in their Downloads folder and open up all files on the host.

Windows Mixed Reality

Earlier this week, we announced that Insiders tin take a sneak peek at the latest features coming this spring to Windows Mixed Reality as of Build 17115. With this build, the Windows Mixed Reality Team would like to let you lot know near a few known issues equally you lot try out the new Windows Mixed Reality features:

We're investigating reports of a functioning regression for Windows Mixed Reality on hybrid laptops on this build.

In some cases, the inbox apps volition fail to load inside of Windows Mixed Reality and newly placed Holograms may be empty. Restarting Windows Mixed Reality should resolve both issues.

Windows Mixed Reality will crash if you launch the Shop from Movies & TV, and so close both apps.

The ambient sound in Skyloft is louder than it should exist.

On laptops with hybrid GPUs the video doesn't render for 360 videos rendered directly in the Edge app although you can still hear the sound.

The 360 viewer fails to launch from the Shop app when y'all click on the "Launch" button afterward installing the 360 Viewer Border extension. To workaround manually launch Edge and then enable the 360 Viewer extension.

General changes, improvements, and fixes for PC

When a process in Task Manager is suspended, or has suspended child processes, you'll now run into an icon indicating as much in the Condition column of the Processes tab.

We fixed an issue resulting in the UAC dialog potentially not rendering correctly in the concluding few flights.

We fixed an consequence resulting in OneNote crashing when using touch to elevate and drop elements in recent flights.

We fixed an issue resulting in the touch keyboard crashing when focus was moved to certain password fields.

We've improved the operation of Bluetooth mice when the system is under load.

We fixed an issue resulting in the Amharic keyboard not working in Win32 apps.

If you're on the Slow band, build 17120 should exist available now via Windows Update. For more than, check out Microsoft's full release notes.

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