Microsoft has launched the February 2025 preview cumulative replace for Home windows 11 24H2, with 33 enhancements and fixes for a number of points, together with SSH and File Explorer bugs and the quantity leaping to 100% when waking the PC from sleep.
KB5052093 is a part of Microsoft’s month-to-month “non-obligatory non-security preview updates” schedule that lets Home windows admins check new options, bug fixes, and enhancements that shall be rolled out to all prospects with the March 2025 Patch Tuesday launch.
First, the Home windows 11 February 2025 preview replace (just like the one launched for Home windows 10 techniques) resolves a longstanding subject that breaks SSH connections on some PCs after putting in the October 2024 cumulative and preview updates.
It additionally improves File Explorer’s efficiency and addresses a number of bugs when coming into URLs within the tackle bar and opening the context menu.
KB5052093 additionally fixes a identified subject that causes the audio quantity to leap to 100% when waking the system from sleep, and one other one stops USB audio gadgets from engaged on PCs which can be left idle for a short while.
To put in this preview replace, go to Settings> Home windows Replace and click on “Examine for Updates.” Since that is an non-obligatory replace, additionally, you will be prompted to click on the “Obtain and set up” hyperlink.
It’s also possible to manually obtain and set up KB5052093 from the Microsoft Replace Catalog.
Home windows 11 KB5052093 highlights
As soon as put in, this preview launch will replace Home windows 11 24H2 techniques to construct 26100.3323.
This non-security preview replace additionally comes with further enhancements and fixes, among the extra vital ones highlighted beneath:
- [Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass subscribers] New! A few of you may see a brand new referral card for a PC Sport Move subscription on the Settings house web page. With it, you’ll be able to invite family and friends to attempt a PC Sport Move at no cost. For those who qualify, the cardboard solely seems once you check in to your PC utilizing your Microsoft account.
- [Scanners] Fastened: Apps may not acknowledge a scanner is offered when it’s linked.
- [Drag and Drop] Fastened: The drag and drop performance wasn’t correctly shifting objects (equivalent to information, emails, or attachments) in particular apps and monitor configurations. This subject occurred on gadgets utilizing excessive DPI shows and apps utilizing legacy DPI scaling modes.
- [Remote Desktop] Fastened: It stops responding.
Microsoft additionally reported two identified points with KB5052093, one inflicting some Citrix parts to dam the set up of the January 2025 Home windows safety replace (Citrix supplies a short lived workaround on this documentation web page).
The opposite one impacts Roblox gamers on Arm gadgets and prevents them from downloading the sport from the Microsoft Retailer on Home windows (as a workaround, they will get the sport immediately from www.roblox.com).
Home windows 11 24H2 has entered broad deployment and is now accessible to all seekers by way of Home windows Replace, with Redmond rolling out the Home windows 11 2024 Replace to all eligible Home windows 10 22H2 PCs since mid-January.
One week earlier, Microsoft mentioned it might begin force-installing Home windows 11 24H2 on eligible, non-managed techniques operating the Residence and Professional editions of Home windows 11 22H2 and 23H2.
