Windows 11 Build 23471 - New File Explorer, Taskbar Labels, Dev Drive/Home, Windows Backup + MORE

There's a lot to get through in today's hands-on build video, including a look at the new Windows Backup app, modern updates to File Explorer, Taskbar labels and ungrouping, and Windows Dev Drive/Home.

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[dethmunky]

I'm still not sure why Microsoft needs me to see celebrity gossip in every corner of my operating system.

[francia]

Loving the white flashes in explorer, they truly elevate the experience to a whole another level

[besnikrrustemi]

1:52 - Dreaming the day when they are going to finally make these pop up windows/confirmation dialogs/progress bars, etc match the new UI design and also make all context menus using the modern design like the right click on desktop...

[Aleksa_Milicevic]

Now, if only the small taskbar buttons would make a comeback 😊

[roccociccone]

Here we are, closing in on 2 years since the initial announcement of windows 11 and it's still missing basic features like repositioning the taskbar (the whole taskbar to the top or side of the monitor), changing its size, disabling widgets (so the service and process doesn’t run, removing the icon does diddly squats), a consistent dark theme that doesn't blind you every other minute, older core applications still look like they're straight out of 2005, the ability to drag tabs to open a separate window, a task manager that doesn't run like rubbish and doesn't use 10% cpu when clicking on literally anything what so ever, search still can't be easily set to only search local files and here we are applauding them for adding icon ungrouping to the taskbar which was once the default behaviour.

Windows Backup seems like another way for M$ to nag you to use an M$ account or onedrive, since you can't choose which cloud provider you'd like to use, there soon will be ads in your os without a way to remove them and soon you'll have the mother of all key-loggers and screen recorders pre-installed on your PC. Windows co-pilot. The biggest security and privacy problem Windows will ever face. Sounds delightful.

[UCsktlulEBEebvBBOuDQ]

These days, progress is to bring back features of the past ! What a time to be alive!

[Dinosaurbugerbuns]

Finally ungrouping is back. I hated it when they removed it from Windows 11.

[Mikivli]

I wish they brought more fluid design like in their teaser videos. the UI looked clean in those videos

[darkomarko]

the 0 badge will get people confused...we are used to it to not have it. now it looks like you have notifications always

[DarkCloud]

The new File Explorer is still a mess in dark mode. White flashes all the time.

[ProCodeSoftware]

As a developer, I think that the Dev Home will save my life when setting up on a different computer

[alvaromady]

I doubt that one day we will be excited when windows finally have consistent UI design

[archmunky]

Gotta admit the dev tools looks nice. Curious though why the theme wasn't changed if settings are restored and previous system used dark mode.

[josuejared]

Idk why Microsoft keeps wasting time and resources with the widgets panel, no one uses it.

[liam]

They really need to get rid of all the news on the widgets section and just make news a small widget instead.

[goodwinhull]

lol Zac, the dev drive setup had a label stating it must be minimum 50GB.

Nice to see never combine taskbar icons return. Now, only if Microsoft could also restore the option to change taskbar size/height.

[therealb]

2:38 Would be cool if we can have the same theme inside the window as the taskbar & title bar.

[SirFaceFone]

Finally some noticeable improvements but HOLY HELL that web based widgets/tabloid panel is still a performance hog. Makes me miss the native UWP live tiles.

Also how is the new backup app different from being signed in to a MS account?

[MarchettLPR]

me encanta como poco a poco el explorador de windows fue volviendo a su apariencia de windows vista, después del desastre visual de windows 8.

[techguy]

Well it looks like they’re creating a reimagined backup tool in Windows I HONESTLY THINK THEY NEED TO SUPPORT LOCAL BACKUPS where you just plug in a hard drive FOR ON SITE RESTORES of your PC

IF you WANT TO USE THE ☁️ good for you

IF you WANT a backup where you plug in a hard drive backup your data and when you get a new PC OR UPGRADE your hard drive OR incur other hardware failures or malware or ransomware attacks you plug in your backup drive during the out of box experience and restore your PC or transfer your files to your new PC from the out of box experience screen