Windows 10 Insider Topic

[GoodBytes]

8 hours ago, Space Reptile said:

im pretty shure cortana will recognize that as echo as its the same sound as what just came from the speaker , kinda like Skype wich is , who would have thunk it , now Microsoft

Nothing is perfect sadly.

[Space Reptile]

Just now, GoodBytes said:

Nothing is perfect sadly.

bu but but but reddit told me linux was the second coming of raptor jesus 

[GoodBytes]

If anyone is trying to get the latest build and are having issues, Microsoft released a tool to fix it:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/971058

Just download the Windows 10 version of this tool, and run it.

[GoodBytes]

Microsoft says that there will be no more builds of Windows 10 until next year.

They are not happy with the latest build, and don't want to leave us hanging with a bad build.

 

[SansVarnic]

6 hours ago, GoodBytes said:

Microsoft says that there will be no more builds of Windows 10 until next year.

They are not happy with the latest build, and don't want to leave us hanging with a bad build.

Hmm to bad but I am glad they are thinking of the end user here. Good move.

[AlTech]

Does Windows 10 Anniversary update support the Surface Dial or do I need the Fast Ring Insider builds to support it? (I don't need an answer right away lol. It's arriving near the end of January thanks to amazon shenanigans).

[SansVarnic]

On 12/23/2016 at 9:25 AM, AluminiumTech said:

Does Windows 10 Anniversary update support the Surface Dial or do I need the Fast Ring Insider builds to support it? (I don't need an answer right away lol. It's arriving near the end of January thanks to amazon shenanigans).

IIFRC it should be supported by the consumer version already since it is available to buy.

[GoodBytes]

Welcome back! New Build 15002.

Features new Edge enhancement including tab preview, jump list support (ability to start Edge InPrivate browsing from right-click on the Edge icon pinned on the Task Bar, Flash is now Click to Run, and Web Payment support.

 

(Notice the Extension icon)
 

 

 

 

Start menu live tiles now supports folders

 

New Share dialog:

 

Win+H for showing the share panel has been removed (useless)

 

High-DPI for unsupported app improvements with the ability to pick different modes to try and apply on an app:

 

Performance improvement for when scaling windows

 

Cortana imrpovements

 

New OOBE Windows setup

 

Braille support in Windows

 

Low Blue Light mode:

 

And lots lots more.. I am at work so I don't have much time for my usual detail.. will update later tonight, if I have time.

But you can read it all here:

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/01/09/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-15002-pc/#jEM4bCtqQ9DwygUy.97

 

 

 

[AlTech]

yay. The creators's update it gonna be great .

[SansVarnic]

Quote

 

BSOD is now GSOD

In an effort to more easily distinguish Windows Insider reports vs the reports of those on production builds, we’ve updated the bugcheck page (blue screen) to be green. Released versions of Windows 10 will continue to have the classic blue color, including the final release of the Windows 10 Creators Update.

 

 

Essentially Previewers will get GSOD

Official Release will get BSOD.

[GoodBytes]

1 hour ago, gabrielcarvfer said:

Still waiting for Microsoft to add password management on Edge. Kinda useless saving and syncinc passwords but not allowing us to see/edit/import/export. =/

Edge Settings pane > View Advanced Settings > Manage Passwords.

You can't see your password, however. They appear as dots.

[GoodBytes]

Video of the previous build 15002

 

And video of this latest build (15007)

 

15007 is miles better on my side... HOWEVER, on my Surface Pro 2, I have no audio, and I can't play videos as a result.

On my phone, everything works great, Edge is fantastic now compared to before (heck even switching tabs doesn't reload the page), things works as they should... but Edge crashes when playing videos, or for some reason loading YouTube non-mobile page. Aside from those, things are looking great.

[GoodBytes]

I discovered a trick to get to the Theme space in the Store to get new themes.

Go to Settings > Personalization > Themes.

 

Now, at the bottom there is a Store icon, if you click on it, nothing happens. BUT, if you hit the Tab key several times, you'll see the focus caret reach right next to the store icon, hit Enter, and the Store will open

 

They are many to pick from

[AlTech]

8 minutes ago, GoodBytes said:

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would it be unrealistic to expect better RAM management on Creator's Update?

[GoodBytes]

On 1/14/2017 at 0:59 AM, AluminiumTech said:

would it be unrealistic to expect better RAM management on Creator's Update?

Better in what way?

[GoodBytes]

If you have audio issues, or CPU spike issues or Edge crash when accessing the Settings panel with this latest build, MS shares a fix:

 1- Go to: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Spectrum

 2- Delete PersistedSpatialAnchors folder

 3- Restart your PC.

 

If you can't delete the folder (it says that it i in used), restart your system and try again.

[GoodBytes]

New Build! Build 15014

 

What new?

• E-Books on the Store
• Custom color picker - FINALLY. For both background and accent color
  
   
• Automatically free up space. You can set Windows to automatically do a disk cleanup if you are low in disk space. The option is off by default. It can be turned on under System > Storage Settings and choose what it cleans up.
   
• Merged Wi-Fi settings under “Wi-Fi services” section in Settings app
   
• New power slider on select Windows 10 Devices. Only SOME users will have it. They are now 2 setting, Max battery saving (which is the same as enabling 'Battery Saver' mode), and recommended (default: Battery Saver off). Microsoft says that if you have this option. Any options higher than recommended will not do anything, it is just a placeholder. Microsoft will work with OEMs to adjust settings, and see what they can do.
  
   

What fixed/improved:

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• You may see the Mail app pinned to your Taskbar after updating to Build 15014. The Mail app is now pinned by default to the Taskbar starting with the Windows 10 Creators Update. If you unpin the Mail app after this change, it will not return.
• Some of our more nerdy Insiders will notice that build branch strings and timestamps have been replaced with static values in the version resources of OS binaries (for example – in the properties of a OS-specific .dll file). We compile builds for a lot of engineering branches every day. Each branch would produce nearly identically binaries except for the build branch string and timestamps. Rather than rebuilding all binaries, we will only build binaries that have changed. With this change we can now share binaries across branches making things more efficient for our engineering systems!
• To improve keyboard accessibility, we’ve updated Snipping Tool – moving the mode options under New over to a new Mode button. Clicking New will now immediately start the snip.
• We’ve fixed an issue resulting in the “Working on updates” screen unexpectedly showing a box instead of a progress wheel for some Insiders.
• We fixed an issue where Desktop shortcuts containing the “%” character (usually URI shortcuts with escaped characters) would result in an Explorer.exe crash loop.
• We fixed an issue where projecting to a secondary monitor could result in an Explorer.exe crash loop.
• We fixed an issue where using CTRL + C to copy in Command Prompt wasn’t working.
• We’ve made some polish adjustments to the Background Settings and Printers & Scanners Settings pages.
• We fixed an issue some Insiders may have experienced where their laptops would bugcheck when closing the lid to put it to sleep.
• We fixed an issue in our new Out-Of-Box-Experience (OOBE) where clicking “Skip this step” on the Microsoft Account creation page would unexpectedly loop back to “Who owns this PC?”.
• We fixed a translation issue in the Start menu for those using the Catalan display language – newly installed apps will now show “nou” next to them.
• We fixed an issue where the list of apps in the Surface Dial “Add an app” page via Settings > Devices > Wheel might unexpectedly be empty.
• We fixed an issue where Miracast wasn’t working on recent builds.
• We fixed an issue where if a second notification comes in after dismissing a first notification and immediately opening the Action Center, that notification toast would show on top of the Action Center, rather than within it. We also fixed an issue that could result in sometimes seeing unexpected space at the top of the Action Center.
• We fixed a deadlock from recent Insider builds that could result in the Action Center appearing blank.
• We’ve adjusted our Action Center icon animation logic, so you will now no longer see the same app logo flash multiple times in quick succession after you first log in if many notifications have been received since last logging in.
• Stylized buttons in notifications are now aligned to the right – consistent with other system buttons in dialogs.
• When you use Win + V to set keyboard focus to a notification, we will now show a white focus rectangle around the X to dismiss button if you tab over to it.
• We fixed an issue where refreshing a PDF displayed in Microsoft Edge would result in a blank page and you would need to refresh it a second time for the PDF to appear.
• We’ve updated the alignment of the VPN connect button in the Network flyout to be right-justified and fixed an issue where it was unexpectedly displaying a grey border.
• We fixed an issue where brightness changes made via Settings > System > Display would unexpectedly revert after closing the Settings app.
• We updated the WIN+X flyout to say “Apps and Features” instead of “Programs and Features”.
• We’ve polished the animation when dropping a tile onto another tile in Start in order to create a folder.
• We fixed an issue where, if the User Account Control (UAC) settings were set to “do not dim my desktop”, running something from File Explorer as Admin could result in UAC displaying behind File Explorer.
• We fixed a capitalization issue in the “Open PowerShell here” context menu entry when you Shift + Right Click File Explorer whitespace.
• We fixed an issue for Insiders where customized desktop icon layouts were lost after rebooting. We also fixed an issue where when desktop icons were set to auto-arrange with a docked device and multiple monitors, undocking and docking the device could result in an unexpected desktop icon layout.
• Based on your very passionate feedback, we’ve adjusted the animation when lowering blue light to be a bit smoother. We’ve also made some polish tweaks to Blue Light Settings with more coming soon.
• We’ve updated the system tray logic to be more robust when faced with bad data that could potentially result in Explorer.exe reliability issues.
• We fixed an issue where 3rd party UWP apps would crash on devices if the DPI settings on the machine are >=150%.
• We fixed an issue where if you were to upgrade from Windows 8.1 directly to recent Insider Fast builds, all your Store apps would have been lost during the upgrade process.

 

 

Known issues:

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• IMPORTANT: The download progress indicator shown when downloading this build is currently broken under Settings > Update & security > Windows Update. It may look like you’re getting stuck at 0% or at other percentages. Ignore the indicator and be patient. The build should download fine and the installation should kick off. See this forum post for more details.
   
• After updating to this build, nonstop exceptions in the Spectrum.exe service may occur causing PCs to lose audio, disk I/O usage to become very high, and apps like Microsoft Edge to become unresponsive when doing certain actions such as opening Settings. As a workaround to get out of this state, you can delete C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Spectrum\PersistedSpatialAnchors and reboot. For more details, see this forum post.
• During the installation of this build, Insiders may experience a storport.sys bugcheck (GSOD) causing them to rollback to the previous build. There is currently no workaround.
• On some PCs, audio stops working sporadically with ‘device in use’ error”. We are investigating. Restarting the audio service may fix things for a bit.
• Under Settings > Update & security > Windows Update you might see the text “Some Settings are managed by your organization” even though your PC isn’t being managed by an organization. This is a bug caused by an updated flight configuration setting for Insider Preview builds and does not mean your PC is being managed by anyone.
• The Netflix app may crash on launch. Try again and it should work.
• Quicken 2016 will fail to run with an error stating .NET 4.6.1 is not installed. For Insiders familiar with Registry Editor, there is an optional workaround. Take ownership of the following registry keys and edit the “version” value to be 4.6.XXXXX instead of 4.7.XXXXX:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v4\Client

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v4\Full

Note: Please take caution when editing the registry. Changing the wrong value can have unexpected and undesirable results.

• Some Tencent apps and games may crash or work correctly on this build.
• Connecting an Xbox 360 or Xbox One Controller to your PC running this build will cause the DWM to crash resulting in your display flickering and/or appearing blank or black.
• The game DOT2 will fail to launch an d pop up the message “Unable to start game” followed by error window.
• When using Microsoft Edge with Narrator, you may hear “no item in view” or silence while tabbing or using other navigation commands. You can use Alt + Tab when this happens to move focus away from and back to the Edge browser. Narrator will then read as expected.
• Taskbar preview icons are unexpectedly small on high-DPI devices.
• Windows Insiders will unexpectedly see a “Holographic” entry on the main page of Settings.
• When clicking on certain elements in desktop (Win32) games, the game minimizes and cannot be restored.
• Dragging apps from the all apps list to pin on Start’s tile grid won’t work. For now, please right-click on the desired app in order to pin it.
• Some websites in Microsoft Edge may unexpectedly show “We can’t reach this page”. If you encounter this, please try accessing the site from an InPrivate tab.
• On certain hardware types, the Netflix app crashes when starting a movie.
• Saying “Hey Cortana, play <item> on <AppName>” doesn’t work immediately after installing the app. Wait 5 minutes for indexing to begin and try again.

 

Read more here: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/01/19/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-15014-for-pc-and-mobile-hello-windows-insiders-today-we-are-excited-to-be-releasing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-15014-for-pc-and-mobile/#4ameXvh3bVjtvh8Y.97

[ionbasa]

4 hours ago, GoodBytes said:

New Build! Build 15014

 

-snip-

Updating now ! I've been very pleased with the recent insider builds. 

Also, strangely enough, I didn't receive a notification on the forum that you posted in the thread. I was going to actually post that the new build was out, and then I saw you beat me to it.

[GoodBytes]

5 hours ago, ionbasa said:

Updating now ! I've been very pleased with the recent insider builds. 

Also, strangely enough, I didn't receive a notification on the forum that you posted in the thread. I was going to actually post that the new build was out, and then I saw you beat me to it.

Strange. Make sure the forum notification e-mail didn't end up in your SPAM. Happened to me in the past, in another forum. Had to white list the forum e-mail.

[AlTech]

Pls halp! I want to buy some damn movies.

 

 

[ionbasa]

Out of curiosity, does anyone else have this problem? It started with build 15007 and persisted to build 15014.

 

There's a "dead space" above the taskbar on the desktop. I think MS may have changed it so that the watermark in the lower right can no longer be obscured by icons. This in turn, reduces the space usable on the desktop since icons can no longer go sit mostly flush to the taskbar. My DPI is still set to default and hasn't been changed. What does change is plugging in an external monitor every so often, which also happens to reset the desktop icons and cause issues sometimes (Icons are not visible or are hidden off screen, this happens when a monitor that is a higher resolution than my laptop screen is used)

 

Here's a snippet of what I'm talking about:

 

If any of you have had similar problems, please comment and up vote on the Windows Feedback link here:

https://aka.ms/I6ym8b

[Rohime]

I've just had a horrible experience with Overwatch not working.

 

I finally worked out that it is Windows Insider Preview Build 15019 (the build that introduces "Game Mode").

 

Reverting to Build 15014 resolves the problem.

 

Symptoms:  Click to start Overwatch creates a blank screen for a few seconds, then screen drops back to Battle.Net client and Overwatch is not running.  There are no error messages.

 

Related Article (which does NOT mention specific games):  https://aka.ms/bc8i9w

 

To quote:  

Gaming known issues

• Popular games such as may experience crashes or black screens when trying to load due to a platform issue.

[potoooooooo]

Well yea, it's an insider preview. This isn't really news, of course updates that aren't actually released yet might break a game. In a few days overwatch will be patched and it will be fine

[Rohime]

2 minutes ago, potoooooooo said:

Well yea, it's an insider preview. This isn't really news, of course updates that aren't actually released yet might break a game. In a few days overwatch will be patched and it will be fine

I found it interesting in that Microsoft are knowingly releasing the update even though it has potentially significant impact on a small subset of users.    This seems to be a change (or at least an edge case) for release decision on the Preview Builds.   I've run nearly all the Preview Builds, its the first time there has been a "mainstream" component broken in any release that I'm aware of.

 

to quote: "

This build does have some platform related bugs that will impact the ability to play popular games on your PC. These platform bugs are unrelated to the new gaming features such as Game Mode. We recognize that this is painful for those wanting to try out the new gaming features announced this week. We deliberated a lot on whether to release this build to Insiders with these issues, however we decided to go ahead and release it as we need feedback from Insiders on other areas of the OS. The team is working hard to get these platform bugs fixed and we plan to push the new gaming features again when we release a build that includes these fixes.

"

[Doobeedoo]

How is this news, it's been known and said it will be like such, c'mon. It's very well explained too as far as insider preview. And why caps the game name in title.