Microsoft has launched the KB5055627 preview cumulative replace for Home windows 11 24H2 with many new options regularly rolling out, and a few new bug fixes for everybody.
The KB5055627 replace is a part of the corporate’s elective non-security preview updates schedule, which pushes updates on the finish of every month to let Home windows admins take a look at bug fixes, enhancements, and options that can roll out throughout subsequent month’s Could Patch Tuesday launch.
Not like common Patch Tuesday cumulative updates, month-to-month non-security preview updates don’t embrace safety updates.
You’ll be able to set up the KB5055627 replace by opening Settings, clicking on Home windows Replace, after which on ‘Test for Updates.’
As a result of that is an elective replace, you can be requested if you wish to set up it by clicking the ‘Obtain and set up’ hyperlink except you may have the “Get the newest updates as quickly as they’re obtainable” choice enabled, which is able to trigger the replace to mechanically set up.
It’s also possible to manually obtain and set up the KB5055627 preview replace from the Microsoft Replace Catalog.
Home windows 11 KB5055627 highlights
As soon as put in, this elective cumulative launch will replace Home windows 11 24H2 techniques to construct 26100.3915.
The April 2025 preview replace comes with a whole lot of new options which might be regularly rolling out, with many targeted on Microsoft Copilot+ PCs:
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[Recall (preview)]New! You’re employed throughout so many apps, websites, and paperwork it may be onerous to recollect the place you noticed one thing you wish to get again to. Recall (preview) saves you time by providing a completely new solution to seek for stuff you’ve seen or completed in your PC securely. With the AI capabilities of Copilot+ PCs, it’s now attainable to rapidly discover and get again to any app, web site, picture, or doc simply by describing its content material. To make use of Recall, you have to to opt-in to avoid wasting snapshots, that are photographs of your exercise, and enroll in Home windows Hi there to substantiate your presence so solely you’ll be able to entry your snapshots. You might be at all times answerable for what snapshots are saved and may pause saving snapshots at any time. As you utilize your Copilot+ PC all through the day engaged on paperwork or shows, taking video calls, and context switching throughout actions, Recall will take common snapshots and allow you to discover issues quicker and simpler. When it is advisable to discover or get again to one thing you’ve completed beforehand, open Recall and authenticate with Home windows Hi there. If you’ve discovered what you had been in search of, you’ll be able to reopen the applying, web site, or doc, or use Click on to Do to behave on any picture or textual content within the snapshot you discovered.
The characteristic is rolling out in early 2025 to most markets after which to the European Financial Space later this 12 months.
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New! Click on to Do (preview) makes it simpler than ever so that you can take quick motion on no matter catches your eye on-screen in your Copilot+ PC, saving you time by serving to full duties inline and rapidly getting you to the app that may greatest full the job. For instance, choose a picture utilizing Click on to Do to take actions like erasing objects utilizing the Pictures app or take away the background utilizing Paint. To make use of Click on to Do, merely use Home windows key + mouse click on or Home windows key + Q. It’s also possible to enter by way of the Snipping Instrument menu and print display or looking out “Click on to Do” within the search field on the Home windows taskbar.
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New! On Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PCs, Click on to Do contains clever textual content actions. Use Home windows key + mouse click on or Home windows key + Q to pick out a textual content block after which drag to pick out the textual content that you really want. You’ll see choices to Summarize or that will help you Rewrite your textual content, so it sounds extra causal or extra formal. These textual content actions leverage the capabilities of Phi Silica, the on-device Small Language Mannequin (SLM) that’s constructed proper into Home windows.
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New! Simply open Click on to Do whenever you swipe from the rightmost fringe of your show.
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New! The insurance policies for managing Click on to Do in a business atmosphere. IT admins can be taught extra by viewing Handle Click on to Do.
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New! Discovering your paperwork, photographs, and settings throughout Home windows 11 is less complicated on Copilot+ PCs with improved Home windows Search, powered by semantic indexing fashions together with conventional lexical indexing. Whether or not it’s looking out in File Explorer, in Home windows Search in your taskbar, or in Settings— simply kind what’s in your thoughts to search out it in your Copilot+ PC. You now not want to recollect file names, actual phrases in file content material, or settings names. Looking for settings like “change my theme” will work throughout the Settings app for now. Due to the facility of the 40+ TOPS NPU onboard Copilot+ PCs, these search enhancements work even whenever you’re not linked to the web. To seek out extra information, see Looking out indexing in Home windows. Now obtainable on AMD and Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs.
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New! Finding your photographs saved and saved within the cloud is getting easier on Copilot+ PCs. You need to use your individual phrases within the search field on the upper-right nook of File Explorer like “summer time picnics.” Along with photographs saved domestically in your Copilot+ PC, photographs from the cloud will present up within the search outcomes collectively. Precise matches to your key phrases throughout the textual content of your cloud information may even present within the search outcomes. You’ll be able to do that expertise out in the present day along with your private OneDrive when signed in along with your Microsoft account and linked to the web. Now obtainable on AMD and Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs.
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[Narrator] New! Maintain monitor of what Narrator has spoken and entry it for fast reference. With speech recap, you’ll be able to rapidly entry spoken content material, comply with together with stay transcription, and duplicate what Narrator final mentioned—all with easy keyboard shortcuts.
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[Phone Link] New! You are able to do much more along with your Home windows PC and your cell machine with direct entry to cross-device options from the Begin menu. For instance, you may make telephone calls, ship SMS messages, entry your photographs, or share content material between your cell machine and PC.
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New! Internet builders can use their present content material to create interactive widgets that may be added to a number of widgets surfaces. For more information, see Internet widget suppliers.
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New! There are some new updates to the brand new Widgets on Lock expertise for units within the European Financial Space (EEA). Along with accessibility and craftsmanship enhancements, the Lock display climate widget now helps customization. To configure your climate widget, go to Settings > Personalization > Lock display and choose the “Customise widget” choice from the climate widget extra choices menu. Extra widgets shall be customizable sooner or later.
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[File Explorer]
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New! Pivot-based curated views on File Explorer Dwelling that helps ease of entry of Microsoft 365 content material on Home windows. Be extra productive and get extremely related content material at your fingertips on File Explorer Dwelling.
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Fastened: As a part of our ongoing dedication to enhancing File Explorer accessibility, this launch contains elevated assist for the textual content scaling (Settings > Accessibility > Textual content dimension) throughout File Explorer, File Open/Save dialogs and the copy dialogs.
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Fastened: Improved the efficiency of extracting zipped information, significantly within the case the place you’re unzipping numerous small information.
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Fastened: The handle bar in File Explorer may unexpectedly not present a path after opening.
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[Settings] New! Handle which apps Home windows recommends actions, go to Settings > Apps > Actions on Copilot+ PCs.
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[Windows Studio Effects] New! The Studio Results computerized framing filter activates after the preliminary use of the digital camera, in case your PC helps Studio Results and you haven’t used Studio Results beforehand.
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[Start]
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Fastened: You’ll be able to’t use contact gestures to view the checklist of apps pinned within the Begin menu.
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Fastened: The Signal out and Extra choices buttons within the Begin menu account supervisor may not be seen with elevated textual content dimension.
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[Taskbar]
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Fastened: The underlines beneath the app icons within the taskbar could stay seen even after the apps have been closed.
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Fastened: For those who use the arrow keys after urgent the Home windows key + T, the arrows transfer within the mistaken path for Arabic and Hebrew show languages.
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[Desktop icons] The logic for apps pinned to the desktop has been up to date, in order that packaged apps now not present an accent coloured backplate. For instance, when you had been to pull and drop Snipping Instrument from the apps checklist in Begin to the desktop the icons must be larger and simpler to see now.
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[Display] Fastened: You may must press the WIN + P keyboard shortcut twice to modify topologies.
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[ExtFloodFill] Fastened: There’s an unusual concern with ExtFloodFill the place a horizontal line may seem within the incorrect location in Win32 purposes.
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[Graphics] Fastened: Exterior graphics playing cards linked over Thunderbolt may unexpectedly not be discoverable in some instances.
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[Hyper-V Manager] Fastened: Hyper-V Supervisor unexpectedly exhibits 0% CPU utilization for VMs
The excellent news is that there are some fixes which might be obtainable instantly with the KB5055627 replace, which embrace:
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[Blue screen error] Fastened: This replace resolves a difficulty noticed after putting in the April 2025 Home windows safety replace and restarting the machine. Affected units encountered a blue display exception with error code 0x18B indicating a SECURE_KERNEL_ERROR.
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[Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP Client)] Fastened: This replace addresses a difficulty affecting web connectivity on units after resuming from sleep mode. Customers may expertise intermittent web connections.
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[File Systems] Fastened: This replace addresses a difficulty when the working system stops unexpectedly, and an error message seems on a blue display throughout regular utilization with a consumer profile redirected to a community VHD(X).
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[Imaging] Fastened: This replace addresses a difficulty the place some content material pages with JPEG photographs weren’t displaying.
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[Windows Hello] Fastened: This replace addresses an edge case concern the place Home windows Hi there doesn’t work on units with particular safety features enabled, stopping customers from logging in with facial recognition or PIN. This concern was noticed after performing a Push button reset or Reset this PC from Settings > System > Restoration and choosing Maintain my Recordsdata and Native set up.
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[Windows Setup] Fastened: For those who set up Home windows 11, model 24H2 with Home windows Setup and run System Preparation (Sysprep) afterwards, the boot file configuration shouldn’t be correctly up to date, leading to push-button reset choices not working.
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[Windows Update] The Home windows Replace settings web page and the Begin menu energy button will now present an estimated time for a way lengthy your PC shall be offline to put in updates from Home windows Replace.
Microsoft is conscious of two long-standing points with KB5055627, one inflicting some Citrix parts to dam the updates from putting in. A short lived workaround is obtainable on this Citrix documentation web page.
The second impacts Roblox gamers on Home windows Arm units and prevents them from downloading the sport from the Microsoft Retailer. As a workaround, they will obtain Roblox instantly from www.roblox.com.
The complete launch notes for KB5055627 could be discovered on this assist bulletin.