phantomofearth ☃️

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I take a look at #WindowsInsider builds and older Windows betas, with some randomness and bad jokes here and there.
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The printers and scanners settings page in Windows 11 will soon be updated to show little shield icons next to the names of printers that support Windows Protected Print Mode.
If you want to try out the new mouse pointer crosshair indicator feature in Dev build 26300.8085 but didn't get lucky with CFR, enable feature ID 27829265.

Recent Dev builds already include velocity features for some of the Hello improvements part of the "K2" fixing effort:

K2DeleteCorruptedEssEnrollments: 60881808
K2EnrollmentCorruption: 60881812
K2WinBioAdapterCallUpdates: 38882022

Video on Canary build 29550 https://youtu.be/JYMFanoG7js
Windows 11 Canary Build 29550: What's New?

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Video on KB5079391/26200.8106 (RP) https://youtu.be/FfDRC07t2PQ
Windows 11 March 2026 Update (KB5079391): What's New?

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Build 29550 coming later today for Server. Remains to be seen whether client will get it too, 🤞

Since the announcement specified that only "select markets" would get Xbox Mode/FSE to start, you might be wondering what markets *won't* get it.

The EEA will not get it in April.

When the upcoming agenda view in notification center (still not rolling out!) first showed up in builds late last year, there was no way to hide it.

Newer builds now have an option to show/hide it which can be found next to the date.

Another completely normal screenshot with nothing out of the ordinary, this time: File Explorer
The (still hidden) migrated "Change account name" option in Settings now works properly in build 26300.7965!