Home windows 11’s Highlight function is a fairly good strategy to jazz up your desktop background with totally different wallpapers and enjoyable information once you hover over the picture icon.
The issue with the present strategy is that it takes up a great quantity of house on the desktop once you attempt to study extra in regards to the wallpaper.
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As proven within the above screenshot, the Highlight pop-up covers about 20% of the desktop house and hyperlinks to Bing search outcomes, together with “Ask Copilot.”
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Microsoft understands that some customers may not like how the Highlight function takes over their desktops.
In Home windows 11 Construct 22635.4145 for the beta channel, Microsoft is testing some changes to the Highlight expertise on the desktop, together with the addition of hotspots when customers right-click on the Home windows Highlight icon.
In a future launch, you may discover these Highlight pop-ups with a lowered flyout.
“There isn’t a change to the interplay mannequin the place proper click on opens the expertise in full display and double clicking launches the Bing touchdown web page,” Microsoft famous in a weblog submit.
“When in full display, you’ll now see two hotspots which shall be animated to help discovery, and which can reveal extra info on hover. Clicking on a hotspot will shut the total display expertise and launch the Bing touchdown web page.”
Microsoft additionally promised that the hotspots will reveal extra info on hover, so that you now not must go to Bing to study extra in regards to the Highlight.
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Along with a decluttered Highlight UX, Construct 22635.4145 ships with an up to date Settings > Bluetooth & Gadgets > Mouse part, which now consists of the choice to show off enhanced mouse pointer precision and a toggle for altering mouse scrolling course.
These choices have been beforehand supplied solely within the Management Panel, however they’re now obtainable in Settings.