Sticky Notes and To-Do are both examples of first-party apps that need to be downloaded the first time they're run. Microsoft is accomplishing that in part by shipping some of Windows 11's 'built-in' apps as stubs that aren't downloaded and installed until the first time you try to run them. After being installed on a 256GB SSD in the same computer, having all updates and drivers installed from Windows Update, and then having Disk Cleanup run to get rid of all the temporary files, a clean Windows 10 21H1 install took up 29.7GB while Windows 11 took up 29.1GB. What I have been able to verify is that a fresh install of Windows 11 takes up slightly less space on disk than a fresh install of Windows 10, albeit not by a lot.

So I'm still doing some digging to figure out what is actually new and what is merely recent stuff from Windows 10 that Microsoft is playing up in the run-up to a new OS. As far as I can tell, the behavior in the release version of Windows 11 looks and feels the same way it does in Windows 10 21H1, and I know that some of the features Microsoft talks up in that video (including sleeping tabs in Microsoft Edge) are already available in Windows 10. Among other features, that video advertised better foreground prioritization of apps so that your computer would stay responsive even when the processor was busy. Smaller disk footprint and smaller updatesĪ video from the Microsoft Mechanics channel on YouTube made the rounds a few weeks back, talking up some of the under-the-hood improvements in Windows 11. You still need to dig into the sound settings or mute the mic from within the app that's using it. What isn't ready yet is the universal microphone-muting feature Microsoft mentioned when it introduced Windows 11. You can also use the toggles on this screen to prevent apps from accessing the microphone. Hover over it to see what app or apps are currently using your microphone, and click it to view the current list of apps with permission to use the microphone.

Windows 11 adds a similar symbol to the system tray when your microphone is in use. Mobile operating systems like iOS and Android will show you some kind of indicator when your microphone is in use, so apps can never be recording you or listening to your voice without some kind of visual indicator present.

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