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The release preview tag on WindowsForum.com covers Microsoft's Release Preview channel for Windows 11, focusing on cumulative updates like KB5120998 and KB5120996. Discussions center on new features such as a movable taskbar, Start menu controls, and Print Management UI changes, alongside removals like WMIC. Threads highlight the staged rollout model, noting that feature availability varies by device and market, and that these builds are pre-release. Coverage includes versions 24H2, 25H2, and 26H1, with attention to administrator considerations, update progress improvements, and post-update performance. The tag serves as a resource for understanding what Microsoft is testing before stable release, emphasizing the difference between preview and general availability.
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    Windows 11 KB5124010 Adds Optional One-Finger Touchpad Scrolling

    Windows 11’s new single-finger scrolling gesture has reached the Release Preview channel in KB5124010, but it is best understood as an optional edge gesture for Precision Touchpads, not a replacement for the two-finger scrolling Windows users already know. Microsoft’s September 10 release notes...
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    Windows 11 Copilot Key Remapping: KB5124010 Explained

    Microsoft is preparing a more practical role for the dedicated Copilot key on some Windows 11 hardware: it can be reassigned to behave as either the Right Ctrl key or the Context Menu key. That is a small-looking change with meaningful consequences for people whose keyboard layout displaced one...
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    Windows 11 26H1: Why Insiders Should Treat It Differently

    Windows 11’s September Insider activity is best understood as a set of experiments, not a roadmap that ordinary PCs should expect to receive. The most consequential point is not any individual interface tweak: Windows 11 version 26H1 is documented as a hardware-targeted release for selected new...
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    Windows 11 KB5124010: Nine Bluetooth Fixes in Preview

    Windows 11’s latest Release Preview build puts unusually concentrated attention on Bluetooth, with nine separate fixes and refinements spanning connection state, audio calls, microphone compatibility, LE Audio, Settings stability, and a documented crash. That is meaningful for people whose...
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    Windows 11 KB5124010 Enters Release Preview for 24H2 and 25H2

    Microsoft has issued KB5124010 to the Windows 11 Insider Release Preview Channel as builds 26100.9539 and 26200.9539. Announced on September 10, 2026, the paired builds are identified for Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2 respectively. The release matters less as a single dramatic new feature...
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    NTLite 2026.09 Adds Windows 11 26H2 Preview Support — Megathread

    NTLite v2026.09.11904 is a consequential maintenance release for people who build, deploy, or deliberately slim down Windows installations. Its headline addition is support for Windows 11 26H2 Preview images, arriving shortly after Microsoft put Windows 11 version 26H2 build 26300.9278 in the...
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    Windows 11 26H2 Release Preview: Should You Join?

    Windows 11 version 26H2 has entered the Release Preview Channel, but that does not make it generally available—or automatically suitable for every PC. Microsoft released build 26300.9278 to Release Preview on August 27, 2026, describing it as a chance to preview the next version ahead of a wider...
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    Windows 11 26H2 Enters Release Preview, Media Tool Unconfirmed — Megathread

    Microsoft has moved Windows 11, version 26H2 into the Release Preview Channel with build 26300.9278, putting the 2026 annual update into its last public test stage before general availability later this year. But the important news for most existing Windows 11 users is not a large feature drop...
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    Windows 11 Search Adds Automatic Folder Indexing in Preview

    Windows 11 Build 26100.9267 and Build 26200.9267 add an option intended to make local file search less manual: Windows can now identify and index “additional relevant locations” based on the folders a person actually uses. For anyone who regularly works outside Desktop, Documents, Pictures, and...
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    KB5120998 Is Release Preview, Not Build 26100.9278

    Windows 11 KB5120998 is real, and its Taskbar, Start menu, and Search changes are real. But the Windows Latest report published August 27 mixes that Release Preview update with build numbers and download claims that do not match Microsoft’s published record. Administrators and regular users...
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    KB5120998 Restores Windows 11 Taskbar Moves in Release Preview

    Windows 11’s long-awaited Start menu and taskbar controls are now in the Release Preview channel, putting them much closer to ordinary PCs than the earlier Experimental and Beta tests. But the September 8, 2026 Patch Tuesday date circulating in coverage is still an expectation, not a...
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    KB5120998 Starts Windows 11 Administrator Protection Rollout

    Windows 11 Administrator Protection is now appearing in the Release Preview builds for version 24H2 and 25H2, but it is not a feature that every Windows 11 PC can simply turn on today. Microsoft’s August 14 Release Preview update, KB5120998, lists it as a gradual rollout in builds 26100.9267 and...
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    KB5120998 Print Management UI Has No Confirmed Rollout

    Windows 11’s Print Management console has reportedly received a WinUI 3 rebuild in the Release Preview channel, but administrators should treat it as an undocumented preview component, not as a completed replacement for the long-standing MMC tool. Windows Latest says it found the new interface...
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    KB5120998 Restores Windows 11 Taskbar Placement

    Microsoft has put the most consequential Windows 11 taskbar reversal yet into the Release Preview channel: the taskbar can again be placed at the top, bottom, left, or right edge of the display. The August 14 Release Preview update, KB5120998, also adds a compact taskbar mode and long-requested...
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    KB5120998 Adds Movable Taskbar in Windows 11 Release Preview

    Windows 11’s movable Taskbar and more configurable Start menu have crossed an important threshold: Microsoft has now placed the features in the Release Preview channel for Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2. That makes a stable-channel rollout plausible, but it does not mean the options are available to...
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    KB5120996 Brings Windows 11 26H1 Start and Power Fixes

    Windows 11 Build 28000.2796, released as KB5120996 to the Release Preview Channel on August 14, gives version 26H1 a broad set of shell, accessibility, power-management, networking, and remote-work fixes — but the Start menu changes highlighted by WindowsReport are only part of a gradual...
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    KB5120998 Restores Windows 11 Top and Side Taskbars — Megathread

    Windows 11 Release Preview build 26100.9267 for 24H2 and 26200.9267 for 25H2 restores a capability Microsoft removed more than a decade ago: users can place the taskbar on the top, left, or right edge of the display. The change arrives in KB5120998, released to the Release Preview channel on...
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    KB5120998 Removes WMIC from Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 — Megathread

    Windows Insiders in the Release Preview channel received two separate Windows 11 cumulative-update candidates on August 14: KB5120998 for Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2, raising those branches to builds 26100.9267 and 26200.9267, and KB5120996 for Windows 11 26H1, build 28000.2796. Microsoft’s Windows...
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    Windows 11 Improves Update Progress and Post-Update Performance

    Windows 11 is finally getting a small but potentially meaningful improvement to one of its most frustrating everyday experiences: understanding whether an update is actually downloading, installing, or merely appearing to be stuck. In the latest Windows 11 Release Preview builds for versions...
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    Windows 11 Build 28000.2597 Adds IPP Printing, Braille, AI Controls

    Microsoft has delivered an unusually broad set of Windows 11 Insider updates on July 20, 2026, spanning the mainstream Beta and Experimental channels, a separate 26H1 Beta branch, and Release Preview servicing for Windows 11 versions 24H2, 25H2, and 26H1. The headline builds are Beta Build...
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