What Has Changed With Windows 11 KB5007262 (Build 22000.346)?

With the KB5007262 update, which is expected to be released to all users soon, numerous fixes and improvements have been made in many areas.

Microsoft has released Windows 11 Build 22000.346 (KB5007262) on Beta and Release Preview Channels for Windows Insider users. This Windows 11 update has a long list of fixes and improvements that are expected to roll out to general Windows 11 users next month.

The company has also released Cumulative Update Build 22499.1010 (KB5008400) for those in the Dev (Development) channel of the Windows Insider Program. However, Build 22499.1010 does not bring any new fixes and is only meant to test the service pipeline for builds in the Dev Channel.

Improvements to Build 22000346 (KB5007262)

Fixed a known issue causing error codes 0x000006e4, 0x0000007c, or 0x00000709 when connecting to a shared remote printer on a Windows print server.
Addressed an issue where certain USB Print installers were reporting that they did not detect the printer after you plug it in.
Resolved an issue affecting USB Printing devices that support Internet Printing Protocol over USB (IPP). This issue is preventing these USB Printing devices from completing the installation.
Fixed an issue that caused operating system functionality to be incorrectly redirected when Microsoft Edge connections were invoked.
Fixed an issue that could cause the audiodg.exe process to stop working in Windows sound system and cause a temporary loss of sound.
Fixed an issue affecting the opening of the SearchFilterHost.exe process.
Added a message stating that an enterprise policy manages the user's location privacy settings. This message appears when privacy settings are controlled by Group Policy documented in Manage connections from Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating system components to Microsoft services.
Fixed an issue that caused Windows Defender Application Control to incorrectly compare two file version numbers.
Fixed an issue that displayed the wrong background for the iFLY Simplified Chinese IME icon in the notification area.
Resolved reliability issues that prevented File Explorer and desktop shortcut menus from displaying. This issue usually occurred when you made a single click to open an item.
Added an option to choose whether to automatically turn on Focus Assist for the first hour after a Windows feature update.
Animation performance of icons in the taskbar has been improved.
Fixed a reliability issue affecting the rendering of network status text on the lock screen.
Fixed volume control issues affecting Bluetooth audio devices.
Fixed a bug that caused File Explorer to stop working after closing a File Explorer window.
Fixed an issue that displayed incorrect subtitle shadows for some videos.
Fixed a bug that caused the Windows Update History page in the Settings app to display a zero (0) update summary count per category when there were updates listed.
Fixed an issue that occurred when running a 32-bit application on a 64-bit version of Windows 11. When you call NetServerEnum() it may give error 87 or error 1231.
Fixed an issue that prevented your device from booting and became unresponsive due to licensing API calls.
Fixed an issue in the Windows Network File System (NFS) client that could prevent you from renaming a file after mounting an NFS share.
Fixed an issue that prevented flash drives such as SD cards and certain USB drives from appearing in the Defragment and Optimize Drives interface.
Fixed a bug that could cause a stop error in volmgr.sys when you delete a volume.
Fixed an issue that could cause Windows Mixed Reality to start when you plug in a headset.
Addressed audio degradation issue affecting Xbox One and Xbox Series Audio peripherals when you use them with spatial audio.
Fixed a bug that caused the AltGr key to stop working if the remote desktop client was running or the RemoteApp connection was lost.
Fixed an issue that caused the edit button and battery icon in Quick Settings to disappear intermittently.
Fixed an issue affecting the Focus Assist button in the notification area and added an accessible name for screen readers.
Various aspects of Windows emoji have been updated: all emojis in the Segoe UI Emoji font have been updated to the Fluent 2D emoji style, Emoji 13.1 support has been included, and the emoji dictionary has been updated.
Updated Emoji and more panels so you can enter emojis in your apps.
Fixed an issue that affected the display of the number of unread notifications.
Fixed an issue affecting the Start menu when you install a large number of apps and change the screen resolution. App names appeared in the Start menu, but app icons were missing. This update also improves the reliability of the Start menu when you use secondary monitors in mixed resolution scenarios.
Fixed an issue that caused flickering when hovering over icons on the taskbar. This issue was occurring when high contrast theme was applied.
Updated the Start menu's Ease of Access folder name to "Accessibility" to conform to the naming standard in Windows 11 (original version).
Fixed an issue affecting Microsoft Narrator users when they selected Braille options in Settings.
As in previous versions of Windows, when a device stopped working or a stop error occurred, the screen color changed to blue.
Fixed a bug that caused some app icons in the Start's All apps list to cut out after changing the screen resolution.
Addressed an issue that prevented the keyboard focus rectangle from appearing when you use Task View, Alt-Tab, or Snap Assist under certain conditions.
Fixed an issue affecting applications that provide context (shortcut) menu items in File Explorer and desktop context menus. This issue occurs if these applications use Directory or Directory\Background records.
Fixed an issue affecting NTFS when you enable update sequence number (USN) logging. NTFS could perform unnecessary actions whenever it performed a write operation which affected I/O performance.
Microsoft Edge: Enabled "onload" events to create popups in Internet Explorer mode.
Improved Microsoft Defender's ability to detect and block ransomware and advanced attacks for Endpoint.
Fixed an issue that caused devices with certain processors to become unresponsive when resuming from hibernation.
Fixed an issue that incorrectly rendered some variable fonts.
Fixed an issue affecting Appx PowerShell cmdlet functionality in PowerShell 7.1 and later.
Fixed an issue that caused some users to see an unexpected "bad image" error message dialog on startup.
Fixed an issue where searchindexer.exe became unresponsive in a remote desktop environment.
Addressed a COM initialization issue in wslapi.dll that could cause invocation to stop.
Fixed an issue on the Hyper-V virtual machine bus (VMBus) that caused the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) VM to time out when adding disks. This issue was also preventing the utility from starting.
Fixed an issue affecting the System Memory Management Unit (SMMU) error handling after hibernation.
Fixed an issue that caused the system to stop working after enabling Hyper-V.
Fixed an issue where machine Group Policy objects were not automatically applied on startup or in the background to devices in a domain with certain processors.
Added an Internet Protocol (IPv4) maximum transmission unit (MTU) configuration option of less than 576 bytes on an interface.
Fixed an issue that caused get-winevent to fail: InvalidOperationException.
Fixed an issue that displayed glyphs at the wrong angle when using the Meiryo UI font and other vertical fonts.
Added a feature to facilitate certain cross-browser data transfers.
Addressed an issue that occurred when opening a dialog in Internet Explorer.
Fixed an issue in CLSID_InternetExplorer.
Fixed an issue that caused Internet Explorer to stop working when you copy and paste text while using the Input Method Editor (IME).
Fixed an issue that caused some apps to stop responding to input. This issue was occurring on touch devices.
Fixed a touch keyboard deployment issue affecting WebView2 controls in Windows UI Library 3.0 (WinUI 3) applications.
Fixed a memory leak in ctfmon.exe that occurs when you switch between different editing clients.
Updated Windows Activation phone number for locales with wrong phone number.
Resolved an issue that prevented Software-Defined Networking (SDN) virtual machines from running when you configured Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) VPN bandwidth throttling.
Fixed an issue that could cause the GetCommandLineA() return value to be lowercase in some developer scenarios.
Fixed a Primary Refresh Token (PRT) update issue that occurred when VPN users signed in using Windows Hello for Business with the VPN connection offline.
Fixed an issue affecting the Fast Identity Online 2.0 (FIDO2) credential provider, preventing the PIN entry box from being displayed.
Fixed an issue where closing the keyboard while expanding the Suggestion UI would display a blank area under the Touch keyboard.
Fixed an issue that automatically removed the Serbian (Latin) Windows display language from a device.