A brand new preview build for Windows 10 continues to be released to fast ring testers testing out the 20H1 update - in other words, the update that'll come out in the first half of the coming year - which greatly improves the search experience of File Explorer.

File Explorer may be the app which you use to search through files and folders around the desktop, so that as it stands, a search conducted in the folder window - using the box top-right with the tiny magnifying glass icon - is a rather basic affair when compared to full Windows Search experience.

So, the concept is to bring the latter full experience - meaning the search functionality you get when hunting for things through the search/Cortana box near the Start button - into File Explorer, so when you're typing searching query, you'll obtain a drop-down list of suggested files that you might look for.

If you see the file you need after you've only typed several letters, you can simply click on it to spread out the file (or right-click if you would like to visit the file's location).

Microsoft further explains this change will also integrate your files stored online on OneDrive inside the search results. The broad idea, then, would be to make search more consistent (and useful) wherever you're using it within Windows, which can't be a bad thing.

Having said that, the feature is still within the very initial phases of testing, and it has only rolled out to a 'small percentage' of testers right now. It is available to more Windows Insiders testing the 20H1 update before long, we'd imagine, however, you might not view it for a short while yet.

Nifty Narrator

That's the main change for this preview build (version 18894), but Microsoft has additionally done some fine-tuning around the accessibility front. That includes making Narrator (the screen reader app) more efficient when reading tables, along with a new command that prompts Narrator to provide a listing of an internet page (highlighting details for example headings, links and so on).

As always, there are a load of bug fixes, and a list of known issues - since this is an earlier preview version, there is always the potential of glitches that could be 'painful' to experience in Microsoft's words. One of the bigger issues with this build would be that the Your Phone app (which Microsoft continues to be tweaking a lot lately) doesn't use it.

In the event you missed it, we recently saw that rounded corners on windows - as opposed to sharp edges - are going to make a return with the 20H1 update for Windows 10.