By It’s safe to assume that something has gone wrong if you’re seeing a blue or black “screen of death.” Although there could be a variety of reasons, Windows 11 will soon ask you to use Windows Memory Diagnostics to do a memory scan in the unlikely event that there is a problem with your memory hardware. The functionality is currently being tested.
The Windows Insider Blog announces, “We’re introducing a new feature that helps improve system reliability” (discovered by Bleeping Computer). If you know that something else caused the crash, you can ignore the memory scan prompt that will show up as a notification. This is fortunate because a comprehensive memory scan necessitates a reboot and several minutes without access to your computer. You won’t see the prompt if you’re using an ARM-based device, BitLocker without Secure Boot, or Administrator Protection enabled. Microsoft probably believes that at least some of those people don’t require the reminder.
A searchable box for your copy and paste history, a new setting to control the latency for voice typing, improvements to the Device cards in the settings menu, and some new taskbar animations are some of the other noteworthy features of the upcoming Windows Insider version (KB5067109). It’s unclear when or whether this information will be included in the Windows 11 general release updates, as is customary with the Insider program.
