Microsoft has accidentally leaked its internal “StagingTool” app that is used by employees to enable secret unreleased Windows 11 features. The software giant typically tests experimental or hidden Windows 11 features in public builds of the operating system, but Windows enthusiasts have until now had to rely on third-party tools to get access to secret features that Microsoft hasn’t yet enabled for all testers.
[…]StagingTool is a command line app that lets you toggle feature IDs that enable certain unreleased parts of Windows 11. It’s particularly useful for when Microsoft uses A/B testing for features, where only a small subset of Windows Insiders will get access to a feature before Microsoft rolls it out more broadly to testers.
Useful, but similar third-party tools already exist, such as ViVe.
Neither Vive, nor the other similar utility (forgot the name, was it mach2?), have worked for me in well over a year. Maybe the features I was trying to toggle cannot be toggled anymore. May have to try with that and see if it helps. Really getting tired of MS adding useless (to me) features to my desktop/UI.
Is there a link anywhere to what “features” this exposes? None of the stories that talk about this appear to go into that.
What about a tool to re-enable previously removed “Features”.
God damn scrollbars look stupid without arrows. I can’t believe any users were bothered by the scrollbar arrows always visible along with the scrollbar.
Hiding away the scroll bars in Word and Excel is perhaps the most stupid idea one could think of… And they did…