Microsoft Win11 official version of Build 22621.1105 has been released with a new taskbar / start menu search style

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens Ji Yin Ke Yi, Sentinel, Dest1n for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, January 11, 2008. On the Tuesday patch of January 2023, Microsoft pushed the KB5022303 update to Windows 11 official users, upgrading the version number to 22621.1105.

Update content:

This update addresses the security issues of the Windows operating system.

This update addresses issues affecting the local session manager (LSM). These issues may allow users who do not have administrator privileges to perform actions that only administrators can perform.

This update addresses a known issue that affects applications that use Microsoft Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) SQL Server driver (sqlsrv32.dll) to connect to databases. The connection may fail, the user may receive an error in the application, or an error may be received from SQL Server.

In addition, according to information found by Windows whistleblower PhantomOcean3, this version hides a new start menu and taskbar search style that can be opened manually.

As you can see from the figure, users are free to choose the style of taskbar search, including search icons, search boxes, hides, etc., and the search box in the start menu has also been improved.

CTOnews.com partners can manually open these two new styles in the following ways:

Download Vive Tool from the GitHub repository

Extract the Vive Tool file to a directory

Start the Windows terminal as an administrator and switch to the command prompt

Use the CD command to navigate to the folder of Vive Tool. For example, CD C:\ Vive

Enter vivetool / enable / id:40887771 and press enter (taskbar search)

Enter vivetool / enable / id:38937525 and press enter (start menu search)

Restart the computer & Resource Manager

If you want to undo the changes, you can use the commands vivetool / disable / id:40887771 and vivetool / disable / id:38937525.