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hey everyone Zach here from Windows
Central and welcome back to another
video now today we’re taking a look at
the windows 11 2022 Updates this update
includes a number of improvements and
features over the first version of
Windows 11 which launched last year also
known as version 21 H2 this is the 2022
update also known as version 22 H2 so
let’s not waste any time here we want to
dive straight into the first notable new
features and they are in the start menu
so the start menu on this version of
Windows 11 has been updated in a number
of minor yet useful ways for example if
we go into start settings here we can
now customize the layout of the start
menu itself so by default we have three
rows of pinned icons and three rows of
recommended items but you can now set it
to show more pins which will reduce the
recommended feed and increase the pinned
rows or we can set it to more
recommendations which does the opposite
so that’s a really nice change the start
menu itself isn’t fluid still so you
can’t just drag the corners to resize it
but this is better than nothing I guess
being able to resize the elements within
it so there you are another notable
change is with the pinned area here you
can now create app folders so if I
wanted to drag this into there to create
a folder I can name that utilities
that now works as you would expect and
that makes uh keeping your start menu
pinned area nice and tidy which is very
nice indeed moving right along the next
notable changes with this update are
with the taskbar specifically the action
center the action center here has been
updated in a number of small yet
important ways in the first version of
Windows 11 the ability to enable do not
disturb for example was in here which
kind of made no sense do not disturb is
supposed to silence notifications so why
couldn’t you initiate that through the
notification shade or the notification
center rather now you can so you’re
coming to the top here there’s the Do
Not Disturb button it has moved from the
control center and it’s now in the
notifications panel if I click on that
that will enable do not disturb and act
just like you would expect it to which
is really nice if I right click I can go
to notification settings here
and I could further customize do not
disturb and all of my notification
options which is really nice you know
there’s a number of options in here for
example we can turn on do not disturb
automatically During certain times or
when duplicating your display when
playing a game when using an app in full
screen mode or for the first hour after
a Windows feature update which is an
interesting option but hey there it is
you can now set those and that is pretty
awesome there’s also a new Focus area in
here which allows you to customize the
focus feature which shipped last year
it’s been enhanced with this release for
example you can now initiate Focus
timers straight from the notification
shade here if we turn off do not disturb
you’ll see down here we can set a timer
here so let’s do a 60 Minute Focus
session press start that will
automatically enable do not disturb and
then it will open the clock app though
it appears the clock app isn’t installed
yet that’s another thing that’s
happening with Windows 11 more and more
now is a number of the inbox apps are
just sort of placeholders they may show
up in the apps list and start menu but
they’re not actually installed until you
connect to the internet and then they
actually download the latest version but
hey there we are that is the focus time
which is now running and again this was
a thing that was in the first version of
Windows 11 so we’re not going to dive
too much into this but you can link it
to Spotify and Microsoft to do and you
can set a number of goals for yourself
and stuff and that is now all easily
initiated through the action center down
here which is really nice and then of
course we can uh
stop that uh session straight through
this UI as well which is pretty nice
indeed now on the subject of the taskbar
while we’re here Microsoft has finally
added back the ability to drag and drop
files uh using icons on the taskbar so
if I grab this file here for example I
can drag it down to the file explorer
and I can plop that in there and that
works as you would expect it to which is
really nice that was functionality part
of many versions of Windows prior but
for some reason Windows 11 version 1
didn’t have it but it’s now back in
Windows 11 version 2 which is very much
appreciated moving right along let’s
take a look at some of the productivity
enhancements Microsoft has made to
Windows 11 version 22 H2 starting with
the new snapping bar in the previous
version of Windows 11 Microsoft
introduced the snapping sort of drop
down menu which appears when you hover
over the maximize button on an app
window and that’s pretty cool but
there’s now a new version of that which
appears whenever you drag a window
around if you see at the top there
there’s a sort of bar that sort of
peeking out and if I move my cursor to
the top of the screen that bar will
bring will reveal itself and I can now
sort of initiate snapping straight
through this UI just by dragging a
window to any of these specific snapping
layouts which is really nice if I wanted
to create a side-by-side snap through
here I could do that
and that works as you would expect or I
could create my quadrant snapping here
which is also pretty fancy so yes that’s
an additional way of initiating snap of
course you can still just do the basic
Dragonette window to the side and snap
it if you’d like you can also drag
another window to the top to maximize it
if you prefer doing that as well the
snapping bar is just an additional sort
of way of initiating different snap
layouts if you may not have been
familiar with that functionality you can
turn that menu off in the settings app
in fact I’ll show you that here if we go
into settings scroll down to
multitasking uh snap Windows here you
can see why is that turned off let’s
turn that back on um
where is it here we go snap show snap
layouts when I drag a window to the top
of my screen turn that off and that
snapping bar will no longer present
itself it’s on by default I think it’s a
really nice addition but some people may
find it a little bit annoying because it
sort of there’s always popping up and
down whenever you’re grabbing that
window to move it around within the top
half of your display anyway if you bring
your window further down it sort of
disappears so once you hit the sort of
50 line on your monitor it starts to
show itself and then the closer you get
to it the uh the more it will show
itself and then you can begin using it
which is pretty cool all right while
we’re in file explorer here let’s take a
look at some new OneDrive Integrations
you can see up here there’s a new
OneDrive button very simple button it
just shows you your cloud storage
information so you can see that your
files are synced if I click on that that
will give me the OneDrive sort of fly
out here which gives me my recently uh
synced files and if we go back to this
menu here you can see that it gives us
our available storage so I have five
gigabytes of storage and I’ve used 1.1
gigabytes of that I can get more storage
I can I can open the OneDrive recycling
bin I can open the OneDrive website and
then I can also head to settings now
what does that do that opens up OneDrive
settings which is built into Windows
however the other buttons as far as I’m
aware take you straight to the OneDrive
website so if I click on the recycle bin
for example you would think that would
take you to the recycle bin in your
OneDrive through file explorer however
that is not the case unfortunately you
click that and it will take you to the
OneDrive website for some reason so I’d
like to see that improved in the future
but hey there you are that is how that
works today and also in the file
explorer app the sort of launch page for
it has been updated it’s now called home
and there is a new favorites area which
allows you to pin file straight to the
home page for you to sort of get access
to quickly for example you can see I’ve
pitched um I’ve pinned a number of uh
files here the this PowerPoint as well
as a Word document this is a file that
I’ve recently created I can right click
it here
and select where is it
should be here somewhere add to
favorites there we are and now I can uh
see that in there and whenever I sort of
close and open the app those files will
always remain there and that is pretty
cool all right up next is a new
personalization option called SW
Spotlight that’s what it’s called Uh so
we jump into personalization here and go
into background go down to our
background options there is a new Option
here called Windows Spotlight which will
essentially pull in a daily image or a
weekly image from Microsoft servers
probably you know the Bing daily image
and that will set it as your default
wallpaper except it hasn’t worked here
okay it took a few seconds to sync but
now as you can see my wallpaper has
changed it’s pulled in an image from
Microsoft servers and up here is a
button which allows me to learn more
about this picture I can hover over it
to see some information but I can right
click it as well to sort of open this
image in my web browser and learn more
about it there I can also switch to a
new picture because there are multiple
pictures here that Microsoft selects for
you and then I can right click again
here and I can vote this picture up or I
can vote this picture down and this just
tells Microsoft whether or not the
pictures they’ve selected for the week
are vibing with Windows users uh so yeah
let’s say yeah this is a great picture
there you are so Microsoft now knows
that this is a good photo for desktop
backgrounds but yeah that’s a nice
addition surprisingly wasn’t there
before you’d think it was you’ve been
able to do this with the lock screen for
a number of years now but for some
reason they never added it to the
desktop until this release so that is
pretty fancy
okay moving right along there are a
number of new apps in the 2022 update
and some of them are in the apps list
here and some of them aren’t we’ll start
with the new clip champ app which is now
pre-loaded on Windows 11. this is a web
app which allows you to edit videos
Microsoft purchased clip chat which was
a standalone service before earlier in
the year and it’s now preloaded on
Windows 11. it’s now a Microsoft owned
app and it’s a simple app editor it
works relatively well you can create
different sort of templates here
um
I think this is a video I created for a
video earlier in the year as well you
can see here’s the editor it’s again
web-based so it can sometimes take a
little while to load things in but as
you can see here the video playback and
whatnot is very smooth this isn’t a very
well a powerful computer by any means
but it’s working uh just like you would
expect so that’s pretty nice if you’d
like to know more about clip champ I
believe I’ve done a more in-depth video
on it which I will link in a card here
okay up next is Family Safety which is
another web app uh which uh allows you
if you use Microsoft family for example
you can see all of your family members
within your account you can see
um recent recent purchases from children
accounts if you have children synced to
your account you can see recent
purchases approve or deny purchase
requests or block websites or see which
apps they’re using on their computers or
Xbox and you can also track family
members using the Microsoft Family app
if you have it installed on your phone
as well and you can see all of that
information from here unfortunately I
don’t have a family so I can’t show you
any of that
here’s a screenshot there just so you
have an idea of what’s this would look
like if you were using it with a real
family and then also there is a new task
manager which is probably the most
exciting new app in this update as you
can see here it’s brand new it looks
fancy it matches the windows 11 design
language here and uh it’s functionally
it’s basically exactly the same but it
just has a Fresh coat of paints you can
you know run a new task you can end
tasks as well up here you can enable
efficiency mode for certain apps which
limits resources used by the process
there you are and you can also group
expand and collapse all and then we also
have our different options uh for uh or
I guess tabs which are now in this sort
of Handy sidebar you can switch to the
performance tab which brings up you to
this sort of usual familiar interface
and we’ve got app history here we have
startup apps
users details here and then we have
Services as well and if we maximize this
app you’ll see that the sidebar out here
automatically expands you can see all of
those different tab names as well and
there’s also a settings tab here which
allows you to set the default start page
which is really quite nice as well as oh
change the update speed you can set it
to always on top minimize on use hybrid
minimized show full account name and
show history for all processes as well
up next are a number of new
accessibility features so if you come
down to the accessibility area here and
go into okay so there’s a new feature
here called voice access which allows
you to control your PC entirely with
your voice so if I turn this on here
that will bring up a bar at the top
which will ask me to download the
language pack required for this feature
that will take a second or two so here
is the sort of initial run process once
that language pack is downloaded so we
can set up our microphone and stuff that
sounds good
and we are all set there’s also a guide
here very handy guide which will teach
you how to use this because it may not
be obvious at first glance so if we
start the guide here
we can say turn on our mic so before
trying to so before trying the steps
below turn on your mic by saying voice
access wake up
of course voice access wake up
click Animal Friend
click cat
show Numbers here
select 17.
show Numbers here
click 17.
show grid here
six
six
four
four
seven
forty four okay nope oh right so if you
say this is a great idea in theory but
it’s a little bit slow at least on this
PC it may be faster and more powerful
computers although it seems to be
working fine now maybe it’s just my
accent that it’s getting tripped up on
but um yeah you can fully control your
PC with your voice let me actually turn
this off real quick and reset it here so
I want to sort of just do my own thing
with it so if we
close voice access guide
show numbers
five
minimize settings
Open start
select Edge
delete
select all
delete
select all
delete
Open start
close search
Open start
select Edge
I did it again close everything
show desktop
Open start
click Edge
one
move Edge window
select all
delete
snap Edge left
snap Edge to left
snap Edge to right
no
it did say snap let’s say it there
okay stop
turn off voice access
what are you executing okay
there we are that’s the demo uh it’s a
great idea but again like I said it’s
probably my accent that’s chipping it up
but um yeah you can control your voice
with your you control your PC with your
voice which is pretty awesome this isn’t
exactly a new thing you’ve been able to
control Windows PCS through voice before
but this is a sort of new enhancement to
that that makes it so you can do even
more with your voice previously there
were certain limitations this in theory
has no limitations
um but uh hey your results May Vary
there’s also another new accessibility
feature called live captions here which
will present captions or subtitles to
any audio or text playing on your PC
even if that audio doesn’t originally
have captions available for it so if we
open up um Windows oh that’s not what I
wanted open up the windows Central
YouTube for example so we have a video
here which I’ve not enabled captions for
on YouTube itself if we turn on this
feature we’ll see this bar at the top we
need to agree to that and it’s now ready
to caption things so if I start playing
this video here you’ll see that at the
top one
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demoing on video so there you are it
does a very good job at that I don’t
know why the voice access feature
doesn’t understand me there but it this
feature understands me within a video
but hey there you are if we go into here
we can actually customize the position
and stuff of this so I can set it to the
bottom if you’d want that or we can also
um
make it float on screen like so as well
as changing caption options we can
filter profanities we can also include
microphone audio so we can actually live
caption me as I talk let’s try that okay
so can it hear me
it can hear me
okay I’m gonna keep that on that’s very
exciting uh we also have caption style
so we can also customize what this
actually looks like this is the default
one do white on black small caps large
text and yellow on blue let’s do small
caps
that looks pretty cool actually uh and
hey there you are that’s uh pretty fancy
I’m going to keep that open because it’s
just cool to see something dictate what
I’m saying all of the time
uh all right what is next
is that what we’ve got oh no okay so we
now have uh the fun part where I demo
some touch gestures and whatnot uh but
initiating that mode is going to be
tricky with all these cables so let’s
try initiate this like so
okay you may have seen that happen but
initiating uh tablet mode here I guess
I’m using a two in one so I just flip
the keyboard around the icons on the
taskbar here got more space to part with
a nice fluid animation as well as the
keyboard button appeared on screen
now with this release Microsoft has
added a number of new gestures for touch
users specifically which enhances the
experience by making it more fluid so
for example I can Now swipe up from the
bottom of the screen anywhere along the
taskbar here to access the start menu in
fact before we do this demo let me go
into accessibility here
last punch and touch let’s make the
circle darker so you can actually see
where I’m touching so if I swipe up from
the bottom here you’ll see that the
start menu now appears if I swipe out
from the right uh the action center
should also appear and these animations
are now fluid so they follow your finger
previously uh they never did this you’d
sort of just do the swipe and a preset
animation would play but now these
should follow your finger and they work
quite nicely
additionally
you can also swipe up from the bottom
right corner here to access the control
center which is a new gesture here as
well and that works pretty nicely and
those are these sort of most notable
improvements for touch users mainly the
gestures the gestures and how much
smoother and you can sort of drag them
around and they are all fluid which is
really nice except for the the widgets
panel one for some reason this one is
still not fluid so it doesn’t follow
your finger as you can see here but all
the other ones do and they work pretty
nicely so there you are
I just realized while I’m in here
there’s also a new feature in the
control center which now allows you to
manage and connect to Bluetooth devices
straight from this UI without having to
go into the settings app so if I open up
this menu here I have no Bluetooth
devices nearby that’s the lightest I do
there we go you can see I now have that
available so I can pin or connect to my
Bluetooth mouse and I’m now connected
straight through issue I without
interrupting my workflow or throwing me
into the settings app which is pretty
cool
so there you are those are the
highlights for the windows 11 2022
update one of the big new features or I
guess changes coming to this release is
that Microsoft is planning to update it
more frequently with new features just
on the Fly basically whenever features
are ready to go
um features will roll out with monthly
updates they won’t be every month but
they will certainly be more often and
outside of the annual feature update
which is usually comes out every fall so
for example next month Microsoft is
adding tabs to file explorer as well as
a number of additional features which we
will cover in a video separately but
that’s not here today this is the
initial sort of 2022 update which
doesn’t have those yet so this is a sort
of good look at the top level features
coming in this release uh check back to
Windows Central for updates on all the
new features that roll out over time as
well but until then thank you very much
for watching and we shall see you in the
next one