Microsoft says a brand new recognized difficulty is inflicting desktop icons to behave erratically on programs with a number of shows when utilizing the Home windows Copilot AI-powered digital assistant.
It solely impacts Home windows gadgets after putting in KB5031455 October Home windows 11 22H2 preview cumulative replace, which additionally prompts the AI assistant for preview.
Due to this recognized difficulty, Home windows Copilot would possibly stay inaccessible on sure affected gadgets till an answer is out there.
“Home windows gadgets utilizing a couple of (1) monitor would possibly expertise points with desktop icons shifting unexpectedly between displays or different icon alignment points when making an attempt to make use of Copilot in Home windows (in preview),” Microsoft explains.
“To forestall customers from encountering this difficulty, Copilot in Home windows (in preview) won’t be out there on gadgets which were used or are at the moment being utilized in a multimonitor configuration.”
The corporate is at the moment engaged on an answer, with further particulars to be supplied in an upcoming replace.
One other recognized difficulty linked to this replace is triggering incorrect BitLocker drive encryption errors due to a reporting drawback in some managed Home windows environments.
Microsoft says the difficulty doesn’t impression drive encryption or the reporting of different machine issues, together with different BitLocker issues on MDM-enrolled Home windows gadgets.
Permits Second 4 options by default
KB5031455 is an non-compulsory non-security preview replace launched on October 27 that permits dozens of recent Second 4 options by default and fixes 22 points.
Highlights included with this launch are the AI-powered Copilot for Home windows, an overhauled File Explorer, a brand new Backup app, and a built-in Passkey Supervisor.
This replace additionally provides assist for 11 file archives, with the whole listing together with .rar, .7z, .tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar.zst, .tar.xz, .tgz, .tbz2, .tzst, and .txz, though assist for password encrypted recordsdata shouldn’t be but out there.
Home windows customers can set up KB5031455 by going into Settings, clicking on Home windows Replace, after which on the ‘Examine for Updates’ button.
As that is an non-compulsory replace, you may be requested whether or not you need to set up it by clicking the ‘Obtain and set up’ hyperlink.