Windows 11’s Latest Preview Update: A Tilde Gets a Job, and Other Small Wins
Windows 11’s Latest Preview Update: A Tilde Gets a Job, and Other Small Wins Not every Windows update changes your daily life. Some just remove a bit of friction, and the newest preview round is mostly that kind. The tilde shortcut The most talked-about change is tiny. In File Explorer’s address bar, you can type a tilde (~) instead of a full path or a long environment variable to reach your user profile folder. Type ~ and press Enter, and you land in your user profile directory. itmagazine winfuture Microsoft is borrowing a habit from the Unix world. On Linux, and in tools like Git or the Windows Subsystem for Linux, the tilde is the standard shortcut for the home directory. If you work across Windows and Linux, you no longer have to switch mental models when you move between terminals and Explorer. winfuture The feature first showed up in Preview Build 26340.9596 in the Experimental channel. It has since turned up in the broader preview update, covered below. itmagazine W...
