Windows 10 Build 21359: Changes and Improvements
We have added an option under the Power menu on the Start menu to restart apps after signing in when you reboot your device. When this setting is checked, it toggles the option under Settings > Accounts > Sign-in options > Restart apps we introduced in 20H1.
If you have your activity history synced across your devices through your Microsoft account (MSA), you’ll no longer have the option to upload new activity in Timeline. AAD-connected accounts won’t be impacted. To view web history, Edge and other browsers have the option to look back at recent web activities. You can also view recently used files using OneDrive and Office.
For power users looking to customize, personalize, optimize and control Windows 10, there are lots of tools available in the operating system. The problem is that they are spread out across multiple locations which can mean a lot of traveling back and forth.
Microsoft To Update Paint And Snipping Tool Through The Microsoft Store
April 9, 2021
Microsoft on Wednesday confirmed that it will be updating MS Paint and Snipping Tool through the Microsoft Store.
The change is part of the release of Windows 10 Build 21354 to Windows Insiders in the Dev channel on Wednesday, which features new personalization options for news and interests on the taskbar, improvements to display, and camera pages in Settings, and several bug fixes and improvements.
Coming to MS Paint, Microsoft back in 2017 had announced that it would be “deprecating” MS Paint in its Windows 10 Fall Creators update to make way for Paint 3D – a revamped version of MS Paint that incorporates features of 3D Builder apps as well as 2D image editing. This meant that MS Paint wouldn’t be in active development and would be removed in future releases of Windows 10.
Build 21354 is now available in the Dev Channel.
It features notable improvements to news & interests and the apps list.
It s the first build to come from the new co release branch.
Source: Microsoft
Microsoft has rolled out a new Windows 10 preview build for Insiders in the Dev Channel today that brings with it a handful of notable new changes and enhancements. The biggest changes in today s build include a reshuffling of the apps list in the Start menu, hiding some system folders, and promoting legacy utility apps to the main apps list such as Paint and Snipping Tool.
In addition, Paint and Snipping Tool are joining Notepad in now being updatable via the Microsoft Store, outside of major OS updates. This means MS can iterate and even add new features to these legacy apps whenever they d like, rather than waiting for the next big Windows OS update to roll around. Paint is also getting a new icon to match the rest of the new Fluent icons introduced over the last few builds.
Back in 2017 Microsoft announced that it was going to maintain and update Microsoft Paint via the Microsoft Store (which was called the Windows Store back then). At the time it was facing a bad consumer reaction to the idea that MS Paint would be depreciated in favour of Paint 3D. Four years later the iconic software firm has just got around to making good on its promise.
The arrival of Microsoft Paint in the Microsoft Store was spotted yesterday by Aggiornamenti Lumia on Twitter but subsequently confirmed in a blog post regarding Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21354 (scroll half way down page). At the time of writing the app isn t showing up in the Microsoft Store for me though.