On the security side, Microsoft says it will soon be adding identity-theft alerts to Windows Defender (if you subscribe to the Microsoft 365 office suite).

A new Focus mode works like a do-not-disturb feature on your smartphone, blocking all onscreen notifications for a set amount of time. New accessibility enhancements make live captions more prominent and add more “natural” sounding automated text-to-speech narrators. Microsoft highlighted new accessibility and security tweaks to the desktop OS. It seems Microsoft didn’t feel like it had all that much to improve on, considering that chief product officer Panos Panay called Windows 11 'the most used and most loved version of Windows ever” in this week’s announcement. The upgrades are helpful yet relatively small compared to some of the big OS changes Microsoft has made in the past. In Settings, click “Windows Update” in the sidebar, then select “Advanced Options.Windows 11 was released last year, and now Microsoft has pushed out the first somewhat sizable update for the desktop operating system. To do so, open Settings by pressing Windows+i. But, if you are having a problem, it’s worth checking to see if any Optional Updates are available. We (and Microsoft) don’t recommend installing these updates unless you are trying to solve a specific known problem with a device. In addition, some driver updates arrive as “Optional Updates” in Windows Update. So if there are any minor but necessary updates to common components such as touchpads or USB controllers, Windows will typically take care of them automatically the next time you update your PC.

When seeking driver updates, it’s important to know that Windows automatically keeps many drivers up-to-date with Windows Update, which is built into Windows 11. As the saying goes, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” The Safest Way to Update Your Drivers If your devices already work, a driver update could potentially break something in an unexpected way by making an untested change to your system.

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