Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Experimental Preview Build 26300.8497 on May 22, 2026, adding Screen Tint, Voice Isolation for Voice Access, plug-and-play HID braille display support in Narrator, Magnifier refinements, printing controls, and reliability fixes for testers in the Experimental channel. The build is not a consumer rollout, and Microsoft is making no promise that every feature will ship unchanged. But it is still a useful signal: accessibility is increasingly becoming part of Windows’ core plumbing rather than an ornamental layer bolted on after the fact.
That matters because the most interesting parts of this build are not flashy. They are small, practical accommodations that remove setup friction, reduce fatigue, or make assistive technology behave more like ordinary hardware. For a platform as old and sprawling as Windows, that is progress of the unglamorous but important kind.
Windows accessibility features have often lived in a strange middle ground. They are essential for the people who need them, useful for many people who do not identify as disabled, and yet too often treated by the industry as a checklist category rather than a design principle. Build 26300.8497 does not solve that problem, but it nudges Windows in the right direction.
The most meaningful change is probably not Screen Tint, even though it is the easiest to explain. It is Narrator’s new support for refreshable braille displays that use the HID open industry standard. In plain terms, certain braille displays can now behave more like keyboards, mice, or headsets: plug them in over USB, and Windows can recognize them without a separate driver hunt.
That sounds mundane until you consider the context. Assistive devices have historically been asked to tolerate more configuration pain than mainstream peripherals, even when their users may be the least able to absorb that friction. A display that works only after setup is complete is not enough if the user needs it during setup.
Microsoft says HID braille displays now work in the Windows out-of-box experience over USB. That means a deaf-blind user with a compatible device can begin setting up a new PC from the first screen, rather than waiting for someone else to get Windows into a usable state. It is a small sentence in release notes and a large shift in agency.
This is not the same thing as Night Light. Night Light warms the display by reducing blue light, mostly framed around evening use and sleep disruption. Screen Tint is aimed more directly at daytime visual comfort: reducing intensity, not merely changing color temperature.
That distinction is more than marketing taxonomy. Windows already has a pile of display controls, from brightness and HDR settings to Night Light, color calibration, contrast themes, and Color Filters. Adding another control risks confusion unless the purpose is clear. Microsoft’s explanation is unusually direct here: Screen Tint is for reducing the harshness of the screen, not for sleep hygiene.
There is an important limitation. Screen Tint and Color Filters are mutually exclusive; turning on one disables the other. That makes sense technically, because both manipulate the rendered image in ways that could conflict. But it also means users who rely on Color Filters for color blindness or other visual needs should not treat Screen Tint as a harmless add-on.
The broader point is that Microsoft is acknowledging something obvious to anyone who spends long hours in front of a screen: brightness is not the only source of visual discomfort. A display can be technically dim enough and still feel punishing. Saturation, contrast, ambient lighting, panel type, and individual sensitivity all contribute to whether a screen is comfortable for work.
The build adds three speech recognition modes under Voice Access settings. Voice Isolation filters other speakers and background noise after a one-time setup in which the user reads a short paragraph aloud. A second mode removes background noise without the extra speaker-specific setup. A third mode leaves microphone input unfiltered.
The hierarchy is sensible. Not every user needs personalized voice isolation, and not every machine or microphone environment will benefit equally from the same level of processing. By offering separate modes, Microsoft gives users a way to choose between simplicity, noise suppression, and targeted speaker recognition.
This is especially relevant because Voice Access is not a convenience feature in the same way a voice assistant is. For some users, it is a primary input method. If background voices in an office, classroom, shared apartment, or hospital room can derail recognition, then the feature’s reliability becomes a matter of independence.
The on-device processing detail also matters for administrators. Enterprises are increasingly wary of voice data flowing to cloud services, especially in regulated environments. A local model does not automatically eliminate every privacy or compliance concern, but it changes the risk profile in a way IT departments can reason about.
This is the kind of improvement that can look small from outside the community it serves. It is not a new app, not an AI demo, not a redesigned Start menu. But driverless support for assistive hardware is exactly the type of platform-level work operating systems are supposed to do.
The OOBE support is particularly important. Windows setup has become more networked, more account-driven, and more policy-bound over time. For sighted users, that can already be irritating. For deaf-blind users, the first-run experience can be a wall if assistive output is not available from the start.
A Windows PC should not become accessible only after someone else has made it accessible. That principle sounds obvious, yet it requires deep integration across setup, input, output, drivers, Narrator, and device enumeration. Build 26300.8497 suggests Microsoft is pushing more of that support into the base experience.
There is still a compatibility boundary. The improvement applies to HID-standard braille displays, not every legacy device someone may own. That is the nature of standards adoption: it simplifies the future before it fully cleans up the past. But support for an open industry standard is the right long-term bet.
This is a subtle usability call. Magnification is about making content easier to see, but assistive overlays can themselves become clutter. The interface that helps you navigate should not constantly compete with the content you are trying to inspect.
Defaults matter because many users never revisit them. A cleaner default reduces visual distraction for users who may already be working with limited screen space. Preserving the option respects users who have built muscle memory around the existing controls.
The change also reflects a broader maturation in accessibility design. Early implementations often emphasized feature availability: can the user technically do the thing? Better implementations ask whether the feature remains comfortable, predictable, and unobtrusive over hours of use.
This may feel unrelated to the accessibility theme, but it fits the same larger story of reducing setup friction. Printing remains one of Windows’ most stubbornly unglamorous problem areas, especially in mixed hardware environments. Microsoft has been moving toward a more standardized print model, including a long-term deprecation path for third-party printer drivers.
The new toggle is a concession to reality. Microsoft wants the ecosystem to move toward simpler, more reliable IPP-based installation, but administrators and power users still need control when the default path causes trouble. In the Windows world, “modernization” without a rollback switch is a support-ticket generator.
For home users, this may eventually mean fewer vendor driver packages and fewer mysterious printer utilities. For enterprise IT, the question is whether Microsoft’s print modernization can reduce risk without breaking established deployment workflows. The toggle does not answer that, but it shows Microsoft knows the transition cannot be purely automatic.
There are also improvements to Simple Service Discovery Protocol notification reliability and to the DISM restore health command. Those are the sort of fixes most users will never notice unless they fail. When they do fail, they become the center of the universe.
The explorer.exe crash fix is especially notable because it underscores the tradeoff of Insider builds. Accessibility advances are exciting, but pre-release channels are still pre-release channels. A build that improves braille setup and voice access can also arrive shortly after a flight that made core shell components visibly unstable for some testers.
That is why the Experimental channel should be treated as a lab, not a shortcut to a better daily driver. Microsoft’s channel naming is itself in transition, with the Experimental channel replacing what many users still think of as the Dev Channel. The name is apt: features here are being observed, adjusted, and sometimes discarded.
Build 26300.8497 is based on Windows 11 version 25H2 via an enablement package, but that does not mean every feature in the build is a 25H2 guarantee for the public. Some features are gradually rolled out to subsets of Insiders. Some may be gated behind feature flags. Some may be present in release notes before every tester actually sees them.
That ambiguity can frustrate enthusiasts. It also reflects how Microsoft now ships Windows. The operating system is no longer delivered as a neatly bounded annual bundle where every feature maps cleanly to a version number. It is a continuously serviced platform with marketing versions, servicing baselines, staged features, and policy overlays.
For IT pros, that means build numbers matter, but they are not the whole story. Channel, rollout status, management policy, region, hardware capability, and account state can all determine whether a feature appears. The phrase “in Windows 11” increasingly needs an asterisk.
That is the old lesson of accessibility technology: features built for specific needs often become broadly useful. Curb cuts were designed for wheelchairs and help travelers with luggage. Captions serve deaf users and people watching videos in noisy places. Voice input assists people with motor impairments and anyone whose hands are busy or injured.
Windows has a large enough user base that edge cases are not really edges. A feature that helps one percent of Windows users can affect tens of millions of people. That scale should change how Microsoft prioritizes these improvements.
It also changes how administrators should think about them. Accessibility settings are not just accommodations handled after an employee files a request. They are part of the baseline computing environment, and they can affect productivity, onboarding, procurement, and support. A fleet that supports standard braille hardware more cleanly is not merely more inclusive; it is easier to manage when the need arises.
The Screen Tint and Color Filters conflict illustrates the challenge. A user who turns on Screen Tint and unexpectedly loses Color Filters may not understand why. A user who depends on Color Filters may interpret Screen Tint as a competing feature rather than a complementary one with technical constraints.
Microsoft can mitigate this with good UI copy, clear warnings, and guided setup flows. But the deeper challenge is conceptual. Accessibility is not one category of need; it is a web of interacting visual, auditory, motor, cognitive, sensory, and environmental conditions. Settings pages organized around Microsoft’s internal feature names do not always match how users describe their problems.
The best version of this work would eventually move beyond isolated toggles. Instead of asking users to know whether they need Night Light, Screen Tint, Color Filters, or Contrast Themes, Windows could better guide them from symptoms to settings: light sensitivity, color distinction, glare, small text, motion sensitivity, noisy room, hands-free control, and so on. Build 26300.8497 is not that redesign, but it adds more urgency to the need for one.
Insider builds are valuable because they expose real-world bugs before public release. They are risky for the same reason. A user interested in Screen Tint or improved braille support may be tempted to jump in, but the correct environment is a spare device, virtual machine where appropriate, or non-critical test system.
The calculus is different for users who need the new accessibility functionality now. If plug-and-play HID braille support materially improves independent setup or daily use, the risk may be worth evaluating. But even then, users should treat the build as pre-release software and plan accordingly.
Admins should be even more conservative. Experimental channel features can inform future planning, procurement, and accessibility support policies, but they should not be treated as deployable capabilities until Microsoft moves them into stable channels with clear documentation and support boundaries.
That is not faint praise. Boring reliability is the goal. Assistive technology should not require heroic configuration, and comfort features should not require users to install questionable utilities from the web.
Build 26300.8497 shows Microsoft investing in that kind of work. It is not a revolution, and it does not erase Windows 11’s broader frustrations around hardware requirements, Start menu churn, account pressure, ads, and the general sprawl of Settings. But it is a reminder that some of the most consequential platform improvements are quiet.
For WindowsForum readers, the practical takeaway is that this build is worth watching even if it is not worth installing on your main machine. It tells us where Microsoft is spending engineering time: standards-based assistive hardware, local voice processing, visual comfort, simplified printing, and cleanup after rough Insider flights. That mix says more about the future of Windows than another coat of acrylic paint on a dialog box.
That matters because the most interesting parts of this build are not flashy. They are small, practical accommodations that remove setup friction, reduce fatigue, or make assistive technology behave more like ordinary hardware. For a platform as old and sprawling as Windows, that is progress of the unglamorous but important kind.
Microsoft’s Accessibility Work Is Moving Closer to the Metal
Windows accessibility features have often lived in a strange middle ground. They are essential for the people who need them, useful for many people who do not identify as disabled, and yet too often treated by the industry as a checklist category rather than a design principle. Build 26300.8497 does not solve that problem, but it nudges Windows in the right direction.The most meaningful change is probably not Screen Tint, even though it is the easiest to explain. It is Narrator’s new support for refreshable braille displays that use the HID open industry standard. In plain terms, certain braille displays can now behave more like keyboards, mice, or headsets: plug them in over USB, and Windows can recognize them without a separate driver hunt.
That sounds mundane until you consider the context. Assistive devices have historically been asked to tolerate more configuration pain than mainstream peripherals, even when their users may be the least able to absorb that friction. A display that works only after setup is complete is not enough if the user needs it during setup.
Microsoft says HID braille displays now work in the Windows out-of-box experience over USB. That means a deaf-blind user with a compatible device can begin setting up a new PC from the first screen, rather than waiting for someone else to get Windows into a usable state. It is a small sentence in release notes and a large shift in agency.
Screen Tint Is a Comfort Feature With an Accessibility Spine
Screen Tint is the new feature most Windows users will recognize immediately. It applies a color overlay across the entire display, with six presets, a custom color option, and a strength slider that runs from a subtle wash to full intensity. Microsoft positions it as a way to soften a bright or saturated display for people who experience eye strain or light sensitivity.This is not the same thing as Night Light. Night Light warms the display by reducing blue light, mostly framed around evening use and sleep disruption. Screen Tint is aimed more directly at daytime visual comfort: reducing intensity, not merely changing color temperature.
That distinction is more than marketing taxonomy. Windows already has a pile of display controls, from brightness and HDR settings to Night Light, color calibration, contrast themes, and Color Filters. Adding another control risks confusion unless the purpose is clear. Microsoft’s explanation is unusually direct here: Screen Tint is for reducing the harshness of the screen, not for sleep hygiene.
There is an important limitation. Screen Tint and Color Filters are mutually exclusive; turning on one disables the other. That makes sense technically, because both manipulate the rendered image in ways that could conflict. But it also means users who rely on Color Filters for color blindness or other visual needs should not treat Screen Tint as a harmless add-on.
The broader point is that Microsoft is acknowledging something obvious to anyone who spends long hours in front of a screen: brightness is not the only source of visual discomfort. A display can be technically dim enough and still feel punishing. Saturation, contrast, ambient lighting, panel type, and individual sensitivity all contribute to whether a screen is comfortable for work.
Voice Access Learns That Real Rooms Are Noisy
Voice Access is also getting a practical upgrade: Voice Isolation. The new mode is designed to help Windows focus on the user’s voice when other people or background noise are present. Microsoft says the processing happens on the device, which is an important privacy claim for a feature built around voice input.The build adds three speech recognition modes under Voice Access settings. Voice Isolation filters other speakers and background noise after a one-time setup in which the user reads a short paragraph aloud. A second mode removes background noise without the extra speaker-specific setup. A third mode leaves microphone input unfiltered.
The hierarchy is sensible. Not every user needs personalized voice isolation, and not every machine or microphone environment will benefit equally from the same level of processing. By offering separate modes, Microsoft gives users a way to choose between simplicity, noise suppression, and targeted speaker recognition.
This is especially relevant because Voice Access is not a convenience feature in the same way a voice assistant is. For some users, it is a primary input method. If background voices in an office, classroom, shared apartment, or hospital room can derail recognition, then the feature’s reliability becomes a matter of independence.
The on-device processing detail also matters for administrators. Enterprises are increasingly wary of voice data flowing to cloud services, especially in regulated environments. A local model does not automatically eliminate every privacy or compliance concern, but it changes the risk profile in a way IT departments can reason about.
Plug-and-Play Braille Support Is the Build’s Quiet Breakthrough
The braille display changes deserve more attention than they will probably get. Microsoft says Narrator now supports refreshable braille displays that use the HID standard, with compatible examples including the Orbit Reader 20, Orbit Slate 340, Freedom Scientific Focus 40, and APH Mantis Q40. USB devices should work immediately, while Bluetooth devices can be paired through the normal Bluetooth settings flow.This is the kind of improvement that can look small from outside the community it serves. It is not a new app, not an AI demo, not a redesigned Start menu. But driverless support for assistive hardware is exactly the type of platform-level work operating systems are supposed to do.
The OOBE support is particularly important. Windows setup has become more networked, more account-driven, and more policy-bound over time. For sighted users, that can already be irritating. For deaf-blind users, the first-run experience can be a wall if assistive output is not available from the start.
A Windows PC should not become accessible only after someone else has made it accessible. That principle sounds obvious, yet it requires deep integration across setup, input, output, drivers, Narrator, and device enumeration. Build 26300.8497 suggests Microsoft is pushing more of that support into the base experience.
There is still a compatibility boundary. The improvement applies to HID-standard braille displays, not every legacy device someone may own. That is the nature of standards adoption: it simplifies the future before it fully cleans up the past. But support for an open industry standard is the right long-term bet.
Magnifier Gets Less Intrusive by Default
Magnifier changes in this build are smaller but philosophically aligned. Touch bars for panning in Magnifier are now off by default, giving touchscreen users a cleaner magnified view. Users who prefer the on-screen bars can re-enable them in Settings under Accessibility and Magnifier.This is a subtle usability call. Magnification is about making content easier to see, but assistive overlays can themselves become clutter. The interface that helps you navigate should not constantly compete with the content you are trying to inspect.
Defaults matter because many users never revisit them. A cleaner default reduces visual distraction for users who may already be working with limited screen space. Preserving the option respects users who have built muscle memory around the existing controls.
The change also reflects a broader maturation in accessibility design. Early implementations often emphasized feature availability: can the user technically do the thing? Better implementations ask whether the feature remains comfortable, predictable, and unobtrusive over hours of use.
Printing Sneaks Into the Accessibility Build Because Windows Is Still Windows
Build 26300.8497 also includes a printing change: a new toggle for Windows Ready Print, Microsoft’s modern print platform. When enabled, Windows installs supported printers using IPP by default. When disabled, Windows may use other available installation methods.This may feel unrelated to the accessibility theme, but it fits the same larger story of reducing setup friction. Printing remains one of Windows’ most stubbornly unglamorous problem areas, especially in mixed hardware environments. Microsoft has been moving toward a more standardized print model, including a long-term deprecation path for third-party printer drivers.
The new toggle is a concession to reality. Microsoft wants the ecosystem to move toward simpler, more reliable IPP-based installation, but administrators and power users still need control when the default path causes trouble. In the Windows world, “modernization” without a rollback switch is a support-ticket generator.
For home users, this may eventually mean fewer vendor driver packages and fewer mysterious printer utilities. For enterprise IT, the question is whether Microsoft’s print modernization can reduce risk without breaking established deployment workflows. The toggle does not answer that, but it shows Microsoft knows the transition cannot be purely automatic.
The Fix List Tells Its Own Story
The reliability fixes in this build are not incidental. Microsoft says it has resolved a cyclical explorer.exe crash from the previous flight, which could make the screen or taskbar blink and repeatedly refresh. It also fixed duplicate Energy Saver quick settings, broken Win + X and Start-button right-click behavior, unexpected audio muting on some devices, and an issue affecting Japanese and Chinese IME candidate windows.There are also improvements to Simple Service Discovery Protocol notification reliability and to the DISM restore health command. Those are the sort of fixes most users will never notice unless they fail. When they do fail, they become the center of the universe.
The explorer.exe crash fix is especially notable because it underscores the tradeoff of Insider builds. Accessibility advances are exciting, but pre-release channels are still pre-release channels. A build that improves braille setup and voice access can also arrive shortly after a flight that made core shell components visibly unstable for some testers.
That is why the Experimental channel should be treated as a lab, not a shortcut to a better daily driver. Microsoft’s channel naming is itself in transition, with the Experimental channel replacing what many users still think of as the Dev Channel. The name is apt: features here are being observed, adjusted, and sometimes discarded.
The Experimental Channel Is a Promise to Test, Not a Promise to Ship
Microsoft’s release notes are careful to remind Insiders that features in these builds may change, disappear, or never reach general availability. That caveat is boilerplate, but it is not empty. Windows feature development is now heavily mediated by controlled rollouts, enablement packages, hidden flags, and channel-specific experiments.Build 26300.8497 is based on Windows 11 version 25H2 via an enablement package, but that does not mean every feature in the build is a 25H2 guarantee for the public. Some features are gradually rolled out to subsets of Insiders. Some may be gated behind feature flags. Some may be present in release notes before every tester actually sees them.
That ambiguity can frustrate enthusiasts. It also reflects how Microsoft now ships Windows. The operating system is no longer delivered as a neatly bounded annual bundle where every feature maps cleanly to a version number. It is a continuously serviced platform with marketing versions, servicing baselines, staged features, and policy overlays.
For IT pros, that means build numbers matter, but they are not the whole story. Channel, rollout status, management policy, region, hardware capability, and account state can all determine whether a feature appears. The phrase “in Windows 11” increasingly needs an asterisk.
Accessibility Is Becoming a Mainstream Windows Productivity Story
The mistake would be to view this build as relevant only to users who already live in the Accessibility section of Settings. Screen Tint will appeal to people with migraines, light sensitivity, post-concussion symptoms, eye strain, or simply long workdays under bad lighting. Voice Isolation will matter to anyone controlling a PC by speech in a noisy room. Cleaner Magnifier defaults help touch users who need more screen clarity, whether temporarily or permanently.That is the old lesson of accessibility technology: features built for specific needs often become broadly useful. Curb cuts were designed for wheelchairs and help travelers with luggage. Captions serve deaf users and people watching videos in noisy places. Voice input assists people with motor impairments and anyone whose hands are busy or injured.
Windows has a large enough user base that edge cases are not really edges. A feature that helps one percent of Windows users can affect tens of millions of people. That scale should change how Microsoft prioritizes these improvements.
It also changes how administrators should think about them. Accessibility settings are not just accommodations handled after an employee files a request. They are part of the baseline computing environment, and they can affect productivity, onboarding, procurement, and support. A fleet that supports standard braille hardware more cleanly is not merely more inclusive; it is easier to manage when the need arises.
The Real Test Is Whether Settings Becomes Coherent
There is one looming problem: Windows accessibility settings are getting more capable, but also more crowded. Screen Tint, Night Light, Color Filters, Contrast Themes, Text Size, Magnifier, Narrator, Live Captions, Voice Access, Speech, and hearing-related controls all live in overlapping mental territory for users. Each feature may make sense on its own. Together, they risk becoming a maze.The Screen Tint and Color Filters conflict illustrates the challenge. A user who turns on Screen Tint and unexpectedly loses Color Filters may not understand why. A user who depends on Color Filters may interpret Screen Tint as a competing feature rather than a complementary one with technical constraints.
Microsoft can mitigate this with good UI copy, clear warnings, and guided setup flows. But the deeper challenge is conceptual. Accessibility is not one category of need; it is a web of interacting visual, auditory, motor, cognitive, sensory, and environmental conditions. Settings pages organized around Microsoft’s internal feature names do not always match how users describe their problems.
The best version of this work would eventually move beyond isolated toggles. Instead of asking users to know whether they need Night Light, Screen Tint, Color Filters, or Contrast Themes, Windows could better guide them from symptoms to settings: light sensitivity, color distinction, glare, small text, motion sensitivity, noisy room, hands-free control, and so on. Build 26300.8497 is not that redesign, but it adds more urgency to the need for one.
Where Testers Should Be Careful
The known issue in this build is also worth noting: Microsoft says Reset this PC may get stuck when using the local reset option, and recommends cloud download instead. That is exactly the kind of caveat that should make cautious users pause before installing an Experimental build on production hardware.Insider builds are valuable because they expose real-world bugs before public release. They are risky for the same reason. A user interested in Screen Tint or improved braille support may be tempted to jump in, but the correct environment is a spare device, virtual machine where appropriate, or non-critical test system.
The calculus is different for users who need the new accessibility functionality now. If plug-and-play HID braille support materially improves independent setup or daily use, the risk may be worth evaluating. But even then, users should treat the build as pre-release software and plan accordingly.
Admins should be even more conservative. Experimental channel features can inform future planning, procurement, and accessibility support policies, but they should not be treated as deployable capabilities until Microsoft moves them into stable channels with clear documentation and support boundaries.
This Is the Kind of Windows Work That Should Not Need Applause
The best accessibility work eventually becomes boring. A braille display works when plugged in. A voice feature understands the person speaking. A screen can be softened without third-party utilities. Magnifier does not clutter the view unless the user asks it to.That is not faint praise. Boring reliability is the goal. Assistive technology should not require heroic configuration, and comfort features should not require users to install questionable utilities from the web.
Build 26300.8497 shows Microsoft investing in that kind of work. It is not a revolution, and it does not erase Windows 11’s broader frustrations around hardware requirements, Start menu churn, account pressure, ads, and the general sprawl of Settings. But it is a reminder that some of the most consequential platform improvements are quiet.
For WindowsForum readers, the practical takeaway is that this build is worth watching even if it is not worth installing on your main machine. It tells us where Microsoft is spending engineering time: standards-based assistive hardware, local voice processing, visual comfort, simplified printing, and cleanup after rough Insider flights. That mix says more about the future of Windows than another coat of acrylic paint on a dialog box.
Build 26300.8497 Makes Accessibility Look Like Infrastructure
This flight is less about one headline feature than about Microsoft pushing accessibility deeper into Windows’ default behavior. The details matter because they point toward a system that is easier to set up, easier to tolerate for long sessions, and less dependent on bespoke drivers or perfect environments.- Screen Tint adds a full-display color overlay with presets, custom colors, and adjustable strength for users dealing with eye strain or light sensitivity.
- Screen Tint can work alongside Night Light, but it cannot be enabled at the same time as Color Filters.
- Narrator now supports compatible HID braille displays as plug-and-play USB devices, with Bluetooth pairing available through normal device settings.
- HID braille displays can work during the initial Windows setup experience over USB, which is a meaningful independence gain for deaf-blind users.
- Voice Access now includes Voice Isolation and other speech recognition modes designed to improve reliability in noisy or shared spaces.
- The build also fixes several rough edges from recent flights, including explorer.exe crashes, broken Win + X behavior, duplicate Energy Saver controls, unexpected audio muting, and DISM reliability.
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