Windows 11 is getting a new security feature that might cause confusion — here's what it does and why

• Windows 11's latest preview patch has a security addition
• It stops users who aren't admins from accessing the Storage panel in Settings
• This was done to prevent unauthorized people from messing with the contents of your drive(s), but it wasn't announced, and might confuse some folks

Windows 11's latest patch – which it should be noted is a preview release – has made a change to the operating system's settings that could confuse some people.

Windows Latest discovered that the KB5074105 patch applies a tweak under the radar whereby Windows 11 now requests admin permission when you go into Storage settings.

In other words, when you open the Storage panel in the Settings app, Windows 11 will pop up a 'user account control' dialog box before giving you access, one that contains different options depending on the type of local account ...