Microsoft accidentally leaked the internal “StagingTool” app used by employees to enable hidden yet unreleased Windows 11 features. The software giant often tests experimental or hidden Windows 11 features on public versions of the operating system, but curious users have been using third-party tools to discover features that haven’t been enabled yet. Thanks to Microsoft, this will no longer be necessary.Hidden Windows 11 tool leaked
The accidental release of Microsoft’s StagingTool yesterday was part of the company’s “bug bash” event that launched last week. This event asks Windows Insiders to help developers find and fix bugs in newly introduced features. In this context, X (Twitter) user XenoPanther discovered the StagingTool we mentioned for the first time, and hours later, Microsoft quickly removed the tool. Although Microsoft has removed the tool, already the internal application is widely shared by the Windows community. For obvious reasons, we do not include a link to the tool here. StagingTool is very similar to the third-party ViveTool app that Windows geeks have been using for years to enable hidden Windows 11 features.
StagingTool represents a command line application that lets you change feature IDs that activate certain unreleased parts of Windows 11. The app seems to be especially useful in A/B tests that Microsoft has implemented before rolling out a feature more broadly to testers. In this way, features that have not yet been officially released or that have been tested by a small segment will be revealed. Not only will these features be detected, but also activated.
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