You whitethorn person recovered that your Windows PC precocious updated itself, whether oregon not you wanted it to, arsenic Microsoft began automatically upgrading Windows 11 PCs with its large yearly update astatine the extremity of January. It’s been an optional upgrade since its September release. But that’s okay: determination are plentifulness of caller things to cheque retired successful the huge Windows 11 2022 Update, codenamed 22H2. The strategy has been fixed a spot of spit and polish beauteous overmuch everyplace — you astir apt noticed immoderate of the much evident interface changes, similar caller icons for changing volume.

Here are 5 of the much important changes you should cheque retired archetypal successful the Windows 11 2022 Update. If you privation to spell adjacent deeper down the Windows 11 rabbit hole, cheque retired our usher to 10 Windows 11 tips and tricks we usage to customize our PCs.

Clipchamp: A new, escaped video editor

Windows present has a caller default video editor: Clipchamp. As a benignant of spiritual successor to the likes of Windows Movie Maker, it’s simpler and much accessible than nonrecreational video editors — the benignant of happening you tin usage for a speedy chopped oregon fade-in if you’re sharing a YouTube video with friends. The instrumentality includes the accustomed basal timeline and editing capabilities, and it tin upload straight to YouTube, TikTok, and assorted web retention services. 

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As of Windows 11 mentation 22H2, Clipchamp should beryllium included successful your operating strategy — conscionable hunt for it successful the Start Menu. If it’s not there, you tin download it for escaped from the Microsoft Store. Here’s a afloat guide connected the basics for this caller tool.

Tabs successful File Explorer 

Power users person been waiting for this 1 for a agelong time. Tabs are a diagnostic that much precocious alternate record browsers person been utilizing for decades, and Microsoft finally—finally—delivered a tabbed File Explorer successful the Windows 11 2022 Update. Here’s a afloat usher connected however to usage them.

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To unfastened a caller tab successful immoderate Explorer window, conscionable click the “+” fastener successful the apical astir paper bar. Tabs enactment conscionable similar you’re utilized to successful immoderate modern web browser, though you can’t click and resistance them into a caller Explorer model (yet). While you’re here, cheque retired the new, streamlined left-hand menu, with faster entree to strategy folders and your astir utilized locations. 

If you similar to person a batch of apps wrong casual scope successful the Start Menu, you’ll emotion the caller folders feature. It works much oregon little conscionable similar folders bash connected the homescreen for Android oregon iOS (or possibly much pertinently, Chrome OS). Any 2 oregon much shortcuts tin beryllium combined into a folder, and immoderate folder tin person a customized name. 

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To get started, conscionable click and resistance 1 Start Menu icon onto another. When you spot some of them shrink, merchandise the rodent fastener and a folder volition beryllium created automatically. Click the caller folder, past click the rubric to rename it. Any further programs tin beryllium dragged successful oregon retired of the folder, and you tin person arsenic galore folders arsenic you like. 

New ways to usage the Snap Bar 

The Snap Bar is 1 of the astir utile multitasking tools successful newer versions of Windows. You mightiness person seen it if you often resistance windows astir by their rubric bar: it’s that happening that lets you determination them to halves, thirds, oregon quadrants of your surface easily. But determination are new ways to entree it. 

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Hover your rodent cursor (don’t click!) connected the maximize model button, successful betwixt the adjacent (X) and minimize (_) buttons successful the upper-right corner. You’ll spot the six astir communal layout options. Click connected immoderate of the sub-grids successful this pop-up to nonstop the model to that location. You tin besides activate this presumption by typing Win + Z, past a number, past a fig again to “drill down” into the options. 

Revamped NotePad

NotePad is 1 of the oldest, simplest tools successful each of Windows, but this basal substance exertion is simply a small much susceptible than you mightiness remember. In the astir basal version, it present follows the acheronian oregon airy colour strategy successful your personalization settings. 

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Microsoft mightiness person adjacent much successful store for the humble NotePad. As you work this, investigating versions of Windows 11 are being updated with tabs successful NotePad in a akin summation to Windows Explorer. Whether oregon not this volition travel to the afloat merchandise remains to beryllium seen. 

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