

Furthermore, they write that hints about the upcoming feature update can also be found in the registry. A corresponding ISO file for Windows 11 22H2 Build 22621 has been linked by the colleagues from in this article. On Twitter, someone has also posted corresponding hints – and on this Techbench dump page as well as here, the respective links can also be found.

The colleagues have included a screenshot that shows a download option for Windows 11 22H2. The indicator is that Microsoft has already placed the Windows 11 22H2 ISO on the update server. On September 18, 2022, the colleagues from German site reported in this article that Microsoft is preparing to launch the upgrade to Windows 11 22H2 (22621). After all, the OEMs receive the installation images several days in advance, so it is not entirely unlikely that such an installation will already be delivered by an OEM shortly before September 20, 2022. He later discovered that Windows 11 22H2, build 22621.521 was installed on the machine. So, the user in question received a new Dell notebook and already noticed differences in the animation when booting the machine.

Has anyone else picked up new hardware with Win11 22H2 installed? I thought something was different as it had the new circle animation on boot. I was not sure if this was actually shipping or not, but I just received a Dell laptop that has Windows 11 22H2, build 22621.521. New Dell laptop just arrived with Windows 11 22H2

In the post Windows 11 22H2 apparently already shipping with build 22621.521 (KB5017321) the editors linked to a post in the forum of : Last Friday, September 16, 2022, there was a report at Neowin that probably a first new PC with Windows 11 22H2 (build 22621.521) was spotted. Dell Notebook shipped with Windows 11 22H2 In the last few days, there have already been various messages and announcements on the web that Microsoft has finished the Windows 11 22H2 feature update and is about to roll it out. In the meantime, there are indications that this date may be kept. In that blog post, I had also mentioned Septemas the release date (but that was a guess, because that's the day preview updates for September 2022 might be released). But Microsoft will reportedly call it "WindUpdate" (see Windows 11: Upcoming version is probably called "WindUpdate"). Consequently, this build is internally at Microsoft called version 22H2. These feature updates will only be made available once a year (see Windows 10: Is Microsoft planning yearly feature updates?). Sometime in late September or October 2022, Windows 11, which was released a year ago, will get a feature update.
