Gallery: Changes in Settings App for Windows 10 build 10056

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Build 10049 still has Cortana & search in the Settings app.

Cortana & search have been removed from the Settings list in build 10056.

Show app notifications, a master setting, is listed with all the apps.

In build 10056 the master setting, Show app notifications, has been moved above the entire list and giving its own header.

Note in build 10049 the Additional desktops header is listed for how your taskbar shows open apps in other desktops and how Alt+Tab works.

In build 10056 the Additional desktops header has been changed to Virtual desktops.

Tablet mode settings in build 10049 only consists of options to turn it on and whether you get prompted to switch modes.

Tablet mode in build 10056 now has additional options for choosing what happens when you sign in to your computer and for hiding app icons on the taskbar while in Tablet mode.

The Personalization area in Settings consists of a single page of options.

The Personalization options in build 10056 has a lot of changes. You can see the addition of settings pages for Background, Colors, Lock screen and Themes.

This is the Background page.

This is the top half of the new Colors page of settings in build 10056.

Notice the option to pick a system color based on your background image. Very similar to the setting that was available in Windows 8.1 Personalization to automatically color match your wallpaper background.

Here is the lower half of the Color settings page in build 10056.

This allows you to change that dark colored theme that is set by default in build 10056 after installation.

In build 10056 which I have in a virtual machine this constantly crashed when I tried new colors.

The Lock screen options have now been moved into its own settings page for build 10056.

The Themes settings page in build 10056 points to the standard Control Panel Personalization area. Under the Classic Settings those links also go to normal desktop settings areas.

I suspect this is a page holder that will eventually have all of these personalizations options you see listed here integrated into one area.

In build 10049 there is a third option in the Recovery page, Go back to a previous version of Windows, because this system was an upgrade from build 9926.

Since I installed build 10056 as a clean install there is not an option to revert back to a previous version of Windows.

That entry is dynamically added based your method of getting to your current version/build of Windows.

Since I installed build 10056 as a clean install there is not an option to revert back to a previous version of Windows.

That entry is dynamically added based your method of getting to your current version/build of Windows.