Microsoft has released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.3640 to Windows Insiders in the beta channel. File Explorer has been improved in the Beta Channel, with support for 7-zip and TAR archives, as well as a new compression wizard and Emoji 15.1. The new emojis are: head shaking, phoenix, lime, brown mushroom, and broken chain. Additionally, Unicode has restored family combinations to symbol-like shapes, although Windows has maintained the previous design. The Beta Channel also includes improvements for Common File Dialog accessibility issues, an underlying ctfmon.exe catastrophe, and a tab-showing issue in Alt + Tab.

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.3640 (Beta Channel)

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.3640 (KB5037867) to the Beta Channel. REMINDER: Windows Insiders in the Beta Channel will updates based on Windows 11, version 23H2. 

Changes and Improvements gradually being rolled out to the Beta Channel with toggle on*

[File Explorer] 

• We’ve added support for creating 7-zip and TAR archives in addition to ZIP via the context menu in File Explorer. We have also added a new compression wizard that lets you choose even more formats and specify even more details. You can compress individual files with gzip/bzip2 (and more,) or add multiple files to archives in different tar formats with different types of compression. You can also change the compression level and what types of data are stored in each archive.

[Emoji]

• We’re adding support for  Emoji 15.1 which introduces a small number of brand-new emoji such as head shaking horizontally and vertically, phoenix, lime, brown mushroom and broken chain. Other changes for Emoji 15.1 include Unicode’s decision to revert family combinations to symbol-like shapes. Windows has chosen to stay with our existing style that use people in family combinations. We are also supporting the new directionality updates for person/man/woman walking, kneeling, with cane, running, manual wheelchair and motorized wheelchair. You can now select right facing or the original left facing orientation for these emoji.

Fixes gradually being rolled out to the Beta Channel with toggle on*

[File Explorer]

• Fixed a few accessibility issues in the Common File Dialog.

[Input]

• Fixed an underlying ctfmon.exe crash which could impact the ability to input text.

[Windowing]

• Fixed an issue related to showing tabs in Alt + Tab, which could lead to frequent explorer.exe crashes if you had a very large number of tabs.

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.3640 (Beta Channel)