Microsoft has released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27959 to the Canary Channel. This new build comes with new changes improvements that includes new setting to move hardware indicators on your screen,adding a new keyboard shortcut to make it easier for you to insert an En dash (–) or Em dash (—) while typing anywhere in Windows.

Checkout the full changelog below.

What’s new in Build 27959 

Changes and Improvements

New setting to move hardware indicators on your screen

We’re excited to introduce a highly requested setting, the option to move the hardware indicators for brightness, volume, airplane mode, and virtual desktops to different positions on your screen. We’ll support the current bottom position and new top left and top center positions on your screen.

Hardware indicator for volume shown at the top left.
Hardware indicator for volume shown at the top left.
Hardware indicator for volume shown at the top center.
Hardware indicator for volume shown at the top center.

To change the position of your flyouts, go to Settings > System > Notifications and use the dropdown for Position of the onscreen pop-up.

Setting to adjust position of hardware indicators highlighted in a red box.
Setting to adjust position of hardware indicators highlighted in a red box.

FEEDBACK: Please file feedback in Feedback Hub (WIN + F) under Desktop Environment > MTC controls and audio.

[Input]

  • We’re adding a new keyboard shortcut to make it easier for you to insert an En dash (–) or Em dash (—) while typing anywhere in Windows. Going forward, pressing WIN + Minus (-) will insert En dash, and WIN + Shift + Minus (-) will insert Em dash. Note – if you have Magnifier running, WIN + Minus (-) will still zoom out Magnifier, rather than inserting an En dash.

[Windows Share]

  • We’ve added the ability to pin your favorite apps in the Windows share window.
New pinning option for apps in the Windows share window highlighted in a red box.
New pinning option for apps in the Windows share window highlighted in a red box.

[Other]

  • We have updated more dialogs to match the Windows 11 visuals including the dialog for when an app can’t open.

Fixes

[General]

  • Fixed an issue causing some Insiders with Arm64 PCs to experience an increase in bugchecks (green screens) with error IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL in the latest Canary builds.

[File Explorer]

  • The File Explorer context menu has been updated to remove the accent colored backplate behind packaged appicons in the Open With list when right clicking a file (for example, Snipping Tool). This change makes icons easier to see.
  • Made some underlying changes to help improve the performance of launching cloud files from File Explorer and loading context menus.
  • Fixed an issue which could lead to icons and text might becoming overlapping on the desktop when using increased text scaling.
  • Fixed an issue where icons in the details, preview, and navigation panes of File Explorer weren’t properly mirrored when using an Arabic or Hebrew display language.

[Taskbar and System Tray]

  • Fixed an issue in the latest builds where the battery icon could get out of sync with the actual charging state (for example, it would show that you weren’t plugged in when you were).
  • Fixed a focus related issue when clicking on an app preview thumbnail which could result on it dismissing but the app window not actually coming to the foreground.

[Start menu]

  • Fixed an underlying issue which was causing Start menu to dismiss if you tried to use WIN + Shift + S to take a screenshot of it.

[Display and Graphics]

  • Fixed an issue where apps and browsers could have partially stuck onscreen content when other maximized / full screen apps were updating in the background. This may have been noticeable particularly when trying to scroll the window content, as only some parts would update.

[Windows Hello]

  • Fixed an issue where Windows Hello Pin setup might fail with error 0x80090010 on Entra-domain joined devices after the latest updates.

[Voice Access]

  • Fixed an issue which could result in Voice Access not working, showing error 9001.

[For developers]

  • There was an issue where PIX on Windows was unable to play back GPU captures on the latest OS versions. This has been addressed by a new PIX release.

[Windows Security]

  • Fixed an issue where the apostrophes in some of the text in the app weren’t displaying correctly.

Known issues

[Power and Battery]

  • [NEW] We’re investigating reports that sleep and shutdown aren’t working correctly for some Insiders after the latest Canary builds.

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