Microsoft has launched the February 2025 preview cumulative replace for Home windows 11 24H2, with 33 enhancements and fixes for a number of points, together with SSH and File Explorer bugs and the quantity leaping to 100% when waking the PC from sleep.
KB5052093 is a part of Microsoft’s month-to-month “elective non-security preview updates” schedule that lets Home windows admins check new options, bug fixes, and enhancements that will probably be rolled out to all prospects with the March 2025 Patch Tuesday launch.
First, the Home windows 11 February 2025 preview replace (just like the one launched for Home windows 10 techniques) resolves a longstanding difficulty that breaks SSH connections on some PCs after putting in the October 2024 cumulative and preview updates.
It additionally improves File Explorer’s efficiency and addresses a number of bugs when coming into URLs within the handle bar and opening the context menu.
KB5052093 additionally fixes a identified difficulty that causes the audio quantity to leap to 100% when waking the system from sleep, and one other one stops USB audio units from engaged on PCs which can be left idle for a short while.
To put in this preview replace, go to Settings> Home windows Replace and click on “Examine for Updates.” Since that is an elective replace, additionally, you will be prompted to click on the “Obtain and set up” hyperlink.
It’s also possible to manually obtain and set up KB5052093 from the Microsoft Replace Catalog.
Home windows 11 KB5052093 highlights
As soon as put in, this preview launch will replace Home windows 11 24H2 techniques to construct 26100.3323.
This non-security preview replace additionally comes with further enhancements and fixes, a number of the extra vital ones highlighted under:
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- [Scanners] Mounted: Apps won’t acknowledge a scanner is accessible when it’s related.
- [Drag and Drop] Mounted: The drag and drop performance wasn’t correctly shifting objects (comparable to information, emails, or attachments) in particular apps and monitor configurations. This difficulty occurred on units utilizing excessive DPI shows and apps utilizing legacy DPI scaling modes.
- [Remote Desktop] Mounted: It stops responding.
Microsoft additionally reported two identified points with KB5052093, one inflicting some Citrix elements to dam the set up of the January 2025 Home windows safety replace (Citrix supplies a short lived workaround on this documentation web page).
The opposite one impacts Roblox gamers on Arm units and prevents them from downloading the sport from the Microsoft Retailer on Home windows (as a workaround, they will get the sport straight from www.roblox.com).
Home windows 11 24H2 has entered broad deployment and is now obtainable to all seekers through Home windows Replace, with Redmond rolling out the Home windows 11 2024 Replace to all eligible Home windows 10 22H2 PCs since mid-January.
One week earlier, Microsoft stated it might begin force-installing Home windows 11 24H2 on eligible, non-managed techniques operating the Residence and Professional editions of Home windows 11 22H2 and 23H2.