New Features Coming to Windows 11 23H2

Today we are looking at the upcoming update for windows 11 code named Sun Valley 3 and Gallium and officially named 23H2. This is going to be a huge update. It comes with tons of new features and brings back a few features from Windows 10. This update might convince me to update to Windows 11. Its that big.

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[csharpner]

Notepad and File Explorer have supported dark mode for a while now. This isn't new in 23H2. Nice to see they're adding dark theme to more apps though. Also, Task Manager has been dark for a while as well.

[eidodk]

Creating virtual harddrives has been in windows since windows 7 - it's still there - It's in disk management. What has changed is that it's easier to get to it.

[HelloKittyFanMan.]

I love your use of the zoom transition from looking at your monitor into looking at your capture feed directly.

[nopenottalib]

Features I'd like to see: First, the ability to turn off the "Recommended" section of the Start Menu and regain that space for pinned apps. At the very least, this should be a Group Policy setting for Enterprise and Education deployments. Second, the ability to revert to the classic right-click context menus as they are in Windows 10. As with the first feature request I mentioned, this should be possible via Group Policy for Enterprise and Education deployments at the very least. Lastly, I still prefer 7-Zip for all my archival needs. It's very small, lightweight, and free. It allows you to double-click-to-open files from just about every compressed file type in existence.

[gega-hr]

I love to see if they bring control panel back like it used to be but also keeping settings

[gordonfreimann]

RAR is a proprietary format under copyright, along with RAR's compression applications and libraries to Alexander Roshal, brother of Eugene Roshal. RAR files are the native format for WinRAR software and can only be created through this tool which is licensed to win.rar

[AkelyHQ]

Virtual drives? That's going to be really useful!

Side Note: It's really refreshing with a guy that actually goes through things and reviews them all the while having the bravery and the professionality to change his opinion. It increases your credibility a lot. Kudos!

[SteamingCupofReason]

I would love to see native support for editing the windows context menu. (Right click menu) There is so much in it that I would like to see just GONE without having to put up with the more options in the condensed view that Windows 11 forces on us!

[Yinzburghbear]

Been using it myself for a little while. I enjoy it. Dynamic Lighting does work well for me with my Razer Blackwidow Keyboard. I strongly dislike using the additional apps to control the lighting, having it be a part of personalization is a nice touch.

[klwtherd]

I'm a IT Security Professional and one of the biggest complaints i get from my clients is that FDE(Bitlocker) only protects the drive when the computer is shutdown. With this new feature, you can encrypt a virtual drive within the OS and you can lock it so if the computer is left on, no one can access it. This feature is truly amazing and needed badly. I'm glad to see that we will be getting it soon.

[MizJunAmi]

Windows has had VHD support as early as Win7. Adding the options in Settings is new as well as mounting via mouse.
Also of note is its not just .rar (pronounced rawr lol) but about a dozen other compression formats being natively supported. I'm sure explorer integration will be worked out by release but then again sometimes MSFT takes 2 years to do the simplest things.

Great vid btw. I like being able to see what's coming w/o having to open VMWare, update, then scouring the OS.

[ajosepi]

I am SO looking forward to taskbar labels being able to be un hid again. That is the most infuriating thing about 11 to me. I have been using the task bar labels for 30 years and couldn't deal with it so much that I paid for Start All Back just for that purpose! I make money off my computers and need them to actually WORK. My work programs really want to be updated all the time, so sticking with 10 messed them up. Only real reason I went to 11. They are much less buggy on 11.... Buggy as hell, but less so. Your videos have been a great help over the last couple years. Thank you.

[OCONTECH]

Virtual drives already available on Windows 10 (Pro at least) from recollection.
I used this feature a few years ago and yep it had all the settings available to
create the VD's that were shown in the Windows 11 Beta Update today.
It is there, you just got to know where to look. All the best peeps! Peace

EDIT NOTE: Apologies as I just scrolled down and noticed similar comments.

[Gyneco-Phobia]

They don't give you the option to save the background of spotlight because you might decide to keep one image at some point. Spotlight is an advertisement. For instance, countries can pay MS to display their own places for touristic purposes. Keep in mind it could be done extremely easily. The photo is already being saved in some data format as cache.

[miscemail]

This is why I wait for at least 1-2 years before tiptoeing into a new OS.

[Fanelinie]

.vhd support was in Windows 7, it was just hidden behind the Disk Management applet in Administrative Tools. Windows 8 expanded on this and allowed you to natively mount .iso's and .vhd's directly from File Explorer and you could also eject these virtual drives as well. 23H2 did nothing more than add already existing functionality to the settings panel.

[jessebrowder]

My genuine, biggest gripe with W11 is that I have to use third party programs, which often break btw, to re-enable taskbar movement. More specifically, having the option to use my task bar vertically, on either the left or right side of my screen.

[radboogie]

Great video - I'm still not ready for Windows 11 yet, too many clicks to get to features that used to be one click.

The VHD thing, you can do that in Windows 10 along with BitLocker encrypted drives. Use the Hyper-V manager and you can create VHDs and mount and eject them from Windows explorer.

[albiss]

Wow ! Best New Features presentation I've ever seen.
Thanks ! :)

[big_rider]

Great video thanks. Chapters would be a great addition to these types of videos.