Microsoft has released Windows 10 Redstone 5 preview build 17741 to Insiders in the Fast Ring. As the company is now focusing more on stabilization of the OS, Before public release. This build doesn’t include any new features but does include a minor improvement on your Phone App, clipboard history, Emoji panel and a number of fixes bug fixes. Along with these changes with Todays build It’s officially confirmed upcoming Redstone 5 update could be labeled as Windows 10 version 1809.

Windows 10 preview build 17741 Changes Improvements

As previously mentioned company planning to create a desktop pin to the Your Phone app in future releases for easier access to Your Phone App, and Dona Sarkar in today’s blog post:

Coming today for Build 17741, we’ve added a new entry point to Your Phone app. Notice a desktop pin? It’ll take you directly to Your Phone app – for quicker access to your phone’s content,” Microsoft’s Dona Sarkar and Brandon LeBlanc. “Or go through the all apps list in Start Menu, or Windows key and search for Your Phone app. You pick how you get there, just get there.

Link your mobile phone to your PC through Your Phone app. Open Your Phone app and follow the setup flow. You will receive an app from Microsoft which you must download to your mobile phone and follow the setup prompts. Android 7.0 and above are compatible with Your Phone app.

Another important thing to note about today’s build is it has a new version number. It is now officially Windows 10 version 1809, After Install this Windows 10 Insider preview 17741.100 (rs5_release) update Press windows + R, type winver and ok you will see the version number has officially been bumped to 1809. Which means Windows Insiders will likely see RS5 finalized in September.

Apart from the minor new addition, Microsoft has pushed out a long list of fixes and improvements for Fast Ring Insiders. Such as improvements on Emoji Panel to now support search and tooltips for the Emoji 11 emoji that were added recently.

Updated the image size limit for clipboard history (WIN + V) from 1MB to 4MB to accommodate the potential size of full screen screenshots taken on a high-DPI devices.

Here the Windows 10 build 17741 full changelogs of what’s fixed and broken.

General changes, improvements, and fixes for PC

• We’ve updated the Emoji Panel to now support search and tooltips for the Emoji 11 emoji that were added recently. These keywords will also populate text predictions when typing with the touch keyboard.
• We fixed an issue where the taskbar flyouts (network, volume, etc) no longer had an acrylic background in recent builds.
• We fixed an issue affecting certain apps where after quitting the app from its systray icon, the next time the app launched it would only display its systray icon (and not the corresponding open app window).
• We fixed an issue in recent builds resulting in Spotlight taking an unusually long time to switch pictures after selecting “Not a fan” from under “Like what you see?”
• We’re updating the image size limit for clipboard history (WIN + V) from 1MB to 4MB to accommodate the potential size of full screen screenshots taken on a high-DPI devices.
• We fixed an issue where if you opened Cortana and then clicked the Notebook icon before starting your search, then window would end up truncated.
• We fixed an issue where if Action Center was already open, Narrator wouldn’t announce incoming notifications.
• We fixed an issue resulting in autoplay notifications not appearing recently until you pressed WIN.
• We fixed an issue where if you received a toast, manually dismissed it, and immediately received another toast, you would hear the second toast ding but not appear.
• We fixed an issue where if Settings was open to “Bluetooth & Other Devices” and then minimized to the taskbar, when you tried to resume the app Settings would crash.
• We fixed an issue from recent builds where the first time you manually selected the date in Date & Time Settings, it would revert to Jan 1st.
• We fixed an issue resulting in the Min/Max buttons in the Microsoft Store app frame overlapping the app content if it was open when switching from tablet mode into desktop mode.
• We fixed an issue from recent builds resulting in share target windows (aka the app you select when prompted from the Share UI) not closing when you pressed Alt+F4 or the X.
• We fixed an issue resulting in IMEs not being able to type East Asian characters into forms in Microsoft Edge.
• We’ve made some adjustments to improve the amount of CPU that cdpusersvc uses.

Known issues on Windows 10 build 17741

• Your PC will bugcheck (GSOD) when deleting a local folder that is synced to OneDrive.
• When you use the Ease of Access Make Text bigger setting, you might see text clipping issues, or find that text is not increasing in size everywhere.
• Narrator sometimes does not read in the Settings app when you navigate using Tab and arrow keys. Try switching to Narrator Scan mode temporarily. And when you turn Scan mode off again, Narrator will now read when you navigate using Tab and arrows key. Alternatively, you can restart Narrator to work around this issue.
• After setting up a Windows Mixed Reality headset for the first time on this build with motion controllers, the controllers may need to be re-paired a second time before appearing in the headset.

Of course, a complete list of the changes, improvements, fixes, and known issues for build 17741 can be found on Microsoft blog here.

Download Windows 10 build 17741

Windows 10 Preview Build 17741 available to Insiders in the fast Ring. And Compatible Devices connected to Microsoft server automatically download and install the Redstone 5 preview build 17741. But you can always force the update from Settings > Update & security > Windows Update and click the Check for updates button.

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