Friday, December 14, 2018

Quick unpin for groups, Console updates, Notepad updates in Build 18298

With the release of Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18298 (19H1), many new features have been added.
  • Sign-in options settings page has been simplified thus increasing visual clarity and improving ease of use. Also now from this settings page, one can now setup a security key. 
  • File Explorer icon has been updated to make it look better with the new light theme.
  • Ability to unpin groups and folders in Start via new context menu entry has been added.
  • With this build, when you open the properties page of any Console window, now one can notice an additional “Terminal” tab having many new settings.
Notepad improvements:
  • Significant improvements have been made in how the Notepad handles encoding. Now an option has been added to save files in UTF-8 without a Byte Order Mark. Additionally, a column is added to the status bar that displays the encoding of the document.
  • Notepad will now also show an asterisk (*) in the title bar before the title of a document to indicate that a document has unsaved changes.
  • Also “Send Feedback” option has been added within Notepad. Just Click Help > Send Feedback to open the Feedback Hub with the Notepad category selected and get your feedback directly to the product team.
  • support for some additional shortcuts added:
    • Ctrl+Shift+N will open a new Notepad window.
    • Ctrl+Shift+S will open the Save as… dialog.
    • Ctrl+W will close the current Notepad window.
  • Notepad can now open and save files with a path that is longer than 260 characters, also known as MAX_PATH.
  • a bug is fixed where Notepad would count lines incorrectly for documents with very long lines.
  • A bug is fixed where, when you select a placeholder file from OneDrive in the File Open dialog, you would download the file to determine its encoding.
  • fixed a recent regression where Notepad would no longer create a new file when launched with a file path that didn’t exist.
For many other improvements added in the Build  18298, please check the source.

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