{"id":236338,"date":"2026-05-01T22:25:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/microsoft-tests-modern-windows-run-says-its-faster-than-legacy-dialog"},"modified":"2026-05-01T22:25:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:25:06","slug":"microsoft-tests-modern-windows-run-says-its-faster-than-legacy-dialog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/microsoft-tests-modern-windows-run-says-its-faster-than-legacy-dialog","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft tests modern Windows Run, says it\u2019s faster than legacy dialog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-tests-modern-windows-run-says-its-faster-than-legacy-dialog2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11 is getting a new modern Run dialog with dark mode support and faster performance in a new preview build 26300.8346.<\/p>\n<p>The Run dialog has been around since the Windows 95 era, and it is one of those small Windows features that many power users still rely on every day.<\/p>\n<p>You just need to press <strong>Win + R<\/strong>, type a command, open a file path, launch a tool, or quickly jump to a location without opening File Explorer first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11 is getting a new modern Run dialog with dark mode support and faster performance in a new preview build 26300.8346. The Run dialog has been around since the Windows 95 era, and it is one of those small Windows features that many power users still rely on every day. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}