Home windows 11 KB5064081 replace clears up CPU utilization metrics in Job Supervisor

​​Microsoft has launched the KB5064081 preview cumulative replace for Home windows 11 24H2, which incorporates thirty-six new options or modifications, with many steadily rolling out. These updates embrace new Recall options and a brand new method of displaying CPU utilization in Job Supervisor.

The KB5064081 replace is a part of the corporate’s elective non-security preview replace schedule, which releases updates on the finish of every month to check new fixes and options coming to the following month’s  Patch Tuesday.

In contrast to common Patch Tuesday cumulative updates, month-to-month non-security preview updates don’t embrace safety updates and are elective.

You may set up the KB5064081 replace by opening Settings, clicking on Home windows Replace, after which “Test for Updates.”

As a result of that is an elective replace, you can be requested if you wish to set up it by clicking the “Obtain and set up” hyperlink except you’ve got the “Get the most recent updates as quickly as they’re they’re accessible” choice enabled, which can trigger the replace to robotically set up.

You too can manually obtain and set up the KB5064081 preview replace from the Microsoft Replace Catalog.

Home windows 11 KB5064081 highlights

As soon as put in, this elective cumulative launch will replace Home windows 11 24H2 programs to construct 26100.5074.

The August 2025 preview replace options quite a few new additions which can be steadily rolling out, together with an up to date technique for displaying CPU workload metrics in Job Supervisor.

For years, Home windows Job Supervisor’s Processes tab displayed CPU utilization utilizing a “Processor Utility” metric, which may show complicated or incorrect outcomes.

The strategy ignored the variety of cores a processor had, so a single, maxed-out core on a 16-core CPU may present total utilization at 100%. It additionally in contrast workload in opposition to the chip’s base clock velocity moderately than its precise working frequency, so when turbo enhance pushed cores above their common velocity, utilization may spike past 100% after which get clipped within the show.

These quirks meant the numbers proven within the Processes tab often didn’t match what was displayed within the Efficiency or Customers tabs, or inside third-party monitoring instruments.

Based on WindowsLatest, Microsoft has now standardized CPU reporting all through Job Supervisor, with the Processes tab now utilizing the identical method already used within the Efficiency and Customers tabs.

The brand new CPU load is calculated as:

(Δ Course of CPU Time) ÷ (Δ Elapsed Time × Logical Processors)

This up to date CPU utilization method is now rolling out with this replace.

For customers preferring the legacy view, Microsoft has added an elective “CPU Utility” column within the Particulars tab. Nevertheless, by default, Job Supervisor will now present constant CPU metrics throughout your entire software.

The entire listing of modifications which can be steadily rolling out contains:

• [Recall] New! Recall opens to a personalised homepage that places your latest exercise and top-used apps and web sites entrance and heart, making it straightforward to choose up the place you left off. After turning on snapshot assortment, the homepage highlights key productiveness options like Current Snapshots, which present the most recent snapshots that can assist you shortly resume duties, and High Apps and Web sites, which show the three apps and web sites you’ve used most up to now 24 hours. You may set filters in Settings to manage which apps and web sites are saved in snapshots. A brand new navigation bar on the leftmost aspect of the display screen supplies fast entry to Dwelling, Timeline, Suggestions, and Settings.

• [Click to Do] New! Once you launch Click on to Do for the primary time, you may see a fast interactive tutorial. It reveals full duties sooner by demonstrating actions on each textual content and pictures—corresponding to summarizing giant blocks of textual content or eradicating picture backgrounds. To revisit the tutorial later, choose Extra choices  > Begin tutorial.

• [General] New! When an app requests entry to location, digicam, microphone, or different machine capabilities, Home windows reveals a redesigned system dialog field. To emphasise the privateness immediate, the display screen dims barely, and the immediate seems on the heart of the display screen.

• [Taskbar] 

  
  

  • New! The bigger clock with seconds is now again within the notification heart, displayed above the date and calendar. To show this selection on, go to Settings > Time & language > Date & time, and activate Present time within the Notification Heart.

  • Fastened: If you happen to by chance click on and drag your mouse throughout the taskbar preview thumbnail, the preview would possibly cease working.

• [Search on the Taskbar]

  
  

  • New! Once you use Search from the Home windows taskbar, a brand new grid view will provide help to extra shortly and precisely determine the specified picture inside your search.

  • New! Search on the taskbar now supplies clearer standing info. In case your search outcomes are incomplete whereas your PC is organizing information within the background, Home windows reveals a discover with a hyperlink to test progress. You may dismiss the discover once you’re carried out. There’s additionally a standing for information and folders, so you’ll be able to simply inform whether or not they’re accessible on-line (cloud) or saved in your machine.

• [Lock screen] New! Extra widget choices and assist for lock display screen widget personalization (beforehand known as “Climate and extra”) are rolling out. After preliminary launch with Home windows Insiders within the European Financial Space (EEA), these updates are increasing to all areas. You may add, take away, and rearrange lock display screen widgets corresponding to Climate, Watchlist, Sports activities, Site visitors, and extra. Any widget that helps the small sizing choice may be added. To customise your lock display screen widgets, go to Settings > Personalization > Lock display screen.

• [File Explorer] ​​​​​​​

  
  

  • New! Dividers now separate top-level icons within the File Explorer context menu.

  • New!​​​​​​​ Once you’re signed in with a piece or college account (Entra ID), File Explorer will show folks icons within the Exercise column and the Really helpful part on the prime of File Explorer Dwelling. Hover over or choose an individual’s icon to open their Microsoft 365 Stay Persona Card, which reveals who they’re and the way they’re linked to the file.

  • Fastened: If you happen to attempt to use the unblock open in Properties for a file, it nonetheless reveals as blocked once you open Properties the following time.

• [Windows Hello]

  
  

  • New!​​​​​​​ As a part of the enhanced passkey options launched in September 2023, you’ll see a redesigned Home windows Hiya interface. These modernized visible updates assist quick, clear communication that seem throughout a number of authentication flows, together with the Home windows sign-in display screen, passkey, Recall, the Microsoft Retailer, and extra.

     The Home windows safety credential expertise for passkey affords a cleaner, extra intuitive interface designed to assist quick, safe sign-in. Now you can simply swap between authentication choices corresponding to passkeys or linked gadgets.

  • Fastened: Home windows Hiya would possibly acknowledge your face on the login display screen, nevertheless it might nonetheless fail after which immediate you to enter your pin. If you happen to proceed experiencing points, you would possibly have to go to the Facial Recognition part beneath Settings > Accounts >Signal-in choices and choose Enhance recognition.

  • Improved: Fingerprint login after standby is now extra strong.

• [Settings] 

  
  

  • New!  Home windows activation and expiration prompts match the Home windows 11 design and seem as system notifications when motion is required. There even have been enhancements to messaging beneath Settings > System > Activation.

  • New! You may go to Settings > Privateness & safety > Textual content and Picture Technology to see which third-party apps have lately used generative AI fashions supplied by Home windows. You too can select which apps are permitted to make use of them—placing you in command of your machine’s AI expertise.

  • New! As a part of the Copilot+ PC expertise, the agent in Settings helps you shortly discover and alter settings. Initially accessible on Snapdragon®-powered Copilot+ PCs, agent in Settings now helps AMD- and Intel™-powered Copilot+ PCs. It presently works solely when your major show language is about to English.

  • Fastened: Settings would possibly crash in case you try so as to add a safety key beneath Settings > Account > Signal-in choices.

• [Task Manager] New! Job Supervisor now makes use of normal metrics to point out CPU workload persistently throughout all pages, aligning with business requirements and third-party instruments. If you happen to want the earlier view, you’ll be able to allow a brand new elective column known as CPU Utility within the Particulars tab to show the sooner CPU utilization worth proven on the Processes web page.

• [Widgets]

  
  

  • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​New! A number of dashboards at the moment are accessible in your Widgets Board. This provides you extra space to your favourite widgets and helps you keep knowledgeable with a feed that connects you to present occasions. A brand new navigation bar on the left aspect makes it straightforward to modify between your widget’s dashboard and different views just like the Uncover feed. After preliminary launch within the EEA, these updates are increasing to all areas.

  • New!  A brand new visible expertise is accessible for the Uncover feed on the Widgets Board. The format is extra organized, personalised, and interesting. Copilot-curated tales at the moment are included, providing a well-rounded view of every matter with summaries, movies, and pictures from trusted MSN premium publishers. To customise your feed, go to Widgets > Uncover dashboard > Personalization settings.

• [Windows Backup for Organizations] New!​​​​​​​ Home windows Backup for Organizations is now usually accessible! Expertise seamless machine transitions with enterprise-grade backup and restore. Whether or not you are refreshing your group’s gadgets, upgrading to Home windows 11, or deploying AI-powered PCs, this resolution helps maintain productiveness with minimal disruption, guaranteeing enterprise continuity and organizational resilience.

• [PowerShell 2.0] Beginning in August 2025, Home windows 11, model 24H2, will now not embrace Home windows PowerShell 2.0. This legacy element was launched in Home windows 7 and formally deprecated in 2017. Most customers gained’t be affected, as newer variations corresponding to PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell 7.x stay accessible and supported. If you happen to use older scripts or instruments that rely upon PowerShell 2.0, replace them to keep away from compatibility points.

• [Live captions] Fastened: Altering the opacity of stay captions in Settings > Accessibility > Captions > Caption Model, has no impact.

• [Input]  

  
  

  • Fastened: Trying to sort Chinese language with an IME after copying one thing with CTRL + C can lead to the primary character not displaying.

  • Fastened: An underlying situation associated to textinputframework.dll may end in sure apps like Sticky Notes and Notepad crashing.

• [dbgcore.dll] Fastened: An underlying situation with dbgcore.dll may end in sure apps, together with explorer.exe, crashing.

• [Kerberos]​​​​​​​ Fastened: There would possibly be an underlying crash in Kerberos when trying to entry a cloud file share.

• [Login] Improved: Addressed some underlying circumstances which may result in you seeing a clean white display screen, or a display screen saying, “only a second”, for a couple of minutes when logging into your PC.

• [Miracast] Fastened: A problem the place, on sure gadgets, audio would initially play however cease a number of seconds after casting to a TV.

• [Audio] Improved: Addressed an underlying audio service stops responding which may influence the flexibility to play audio in sure circumstances.

The excellent news is that some fixes or enhancements within the KB5058502 replace can be found instantly:

• [Device management] Fastened: This replace addresses a problem that prevented some system restoration options from working correctly because of a brief file sharing battle. This affected sure machine administration instruments and disrupted key capabilities on some gadgets.

• [File system]​​​​​​​ Fastened: A problem in Resilient File System (ReFS) the place utilizing backup apps with giant information may generally exhaust system reminiscence.

• [Input]  

  
  

  • Fastened: This replace addresses a problem with the Chinese language (Simplified) Enter Technique Editor (IME) the place some prolonged characters seem as empty packing containers.

  • [Fixed This update addresses an issue that prevents typing on the touch keyboard when using the Microsoft Changjie, Microsoft Bopomofo, or Microsoft Japanese Input Method Editors (IMEs). The issue occurs after switching to a previous version of the IME.

• [Performance] Fastened: This replace addresses a problem that slows software set up on ARM64 gadgets. Some installers would possibly take longer to finish.

Microsoft reviews two identified points with this launch: a bug that causes incorrect CertificateServicesClient (CertEnroll) errors to seem, and lag/stuttering in audio and video efficiency when utilizing Community Gadget Interface (NDI) to stream or switch feeds between PCs.

The corporate is now rolling out a repair for the CertificateServicesClient (CertEnroll) errors , however it’s steadily rolling out over the following 4 weeks. 

The complete launch notes for KB5064081 may be discovered on this assist bulletin.

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