Windows 10 Insider Topic

[ionbasa]

Anyone else seem to have this annoying issue?

 

Even after running the disk cleanup tool and selecting older versions of windows to be cleaned up the folders are still there.

[GoodBytes]

3 hours ago, ionbasa said:

Anyone else seem to have this annoying issue?

 

 

Even after running the disk cleanup tool and selecting older versions of windows to be cleaned up the folders are still there.

Yea, I have it to on both my systems on Insider program. Really annoying.

I can't figure out how to delete them beside going outside of the OS and delete them from there.

[GoodBytes]

9 minutes ago, gabrielcarvfer said:

 

Did you try booting into safe mode or taking ownership and then delete? (Safe mode should be faster than taking ownership).

Taking ownership did not work for me.

I did not try Safe Mode.

[GoodBytes]

New Build!

 

We had a few very boring builds before, with minimal changes, and just slight improvements to the Dark Theme File Explorer on the, now, previous version. I was also extensively busy, so I could not post here.

 

But now the excitement is back:

 

What's new?

Here is what is big:

• SwiftKey, has arrived and integrated in Windows 10 Swipe keyboard.
  
   

• Make text bigger everywhere! Now you can finally make text bigger while not making the OS bigger by increasing the DPI of the OS. This is feature was in Windows 10 Mobile for a number of years (and maybe in previous version of Windows on Phones), and like your Android and iOS phones. Text size adjustment applies everywhere, even in Win32 desktop programs.
  
   

• Game Bar Improvements

  • CPU, GPU, and RAM usage can now be displayed in the Game Bar menu when you hit Win+G in your games

  • Audio control of each running app and the game itself.

  • Dedicate resources, is a new Game Mode improvement option, that makes Windows gives more time and resources to the currently running game, instead of background process. Microsoft says that it CAN help desktop Win32 games if you have a lot of background processes.
    
    
     

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General changes, improvements, and fixes for PC

• We fixed an issue resulting in audio glitching on systems with lots of firewall rules.
• We fixed an issue from the last few flights where Eye Control would fail fast and not start.
• We fixed an issue resulting in certain games, such as Counter Strike: Global Offensive, to crash on launch in the last two builds.
• We fixed an issue resulting in Settings crashing when attempting to open Data Usage Settings in the last few flights.
• We fixed an issue resulting in an unexpected “codecpacks.vp9” entry in the Start menu.
• We fixed a recent issue for some Insiders resulting in an explorer.exe crash with AppXDeploymentClient.dll.
• We fixed an issue resulting in some Insiders recently experiencing a bug check (green screen) with the error SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION in afd.sys.
• With Build 17672 we made a fix for an explorer.exe crash in structuredquery.dll – that fix stopped anyone new from encountering the crash, however we heard your reports that anyone already impacted was still impacted. Today’s build has a fix for this issue that should resolve it for anyone who was already impacted.
• To improve discoverability, we’ve moved Delivery Optimization Settings to now be directly listed as a category under Settings > Update & Security.
• We fixed an issue in Microsoft Edge impacting websites like Facebook.com, where when starting a message only the first contact name entered was automatically resolved while typing.
• We fixed an issue in Microsoft Edge where if both images and text were selected, right-clicking on the image and selecting copy wouldn’t work.
• We fixed an issue resulting in the Windows Security app crashing recently when adding a process to the exclusion list.

Known issues

• The login screen will crash in a loop when the active sign-in method is set to Picture Password. We recommend removing your Picture Password before upgrading to this build.
• This build will only be offered to Insiders running Builds 17655 and higher. You will not be able to update from RS4 to this build without first taking Build 17686 first.
• We’re working on adding dark theme in File Explorer and the Common File Dialog, but we still have some things to do. You may see some unexpectedly light colors in these surfaces when in dark mode.
• DRM video playback in Microsoft Edge from websites such as Netflix is broke on this build. But you should be able to use the Netflix app to play videos.
• Some Insiders may find increased reliability and performance issues when launching Start on this build. We’re investigating.
• When you upgrade to this build you’ll find that the taskbar flyouts (network, volume, etc) no longer have an acrylic background.
• There is a bug in these builds that will impact driver testing scenarios. When executing HLK Component/Device driver tests, you may experience a bug check that blocks test execution. We are aware of the issue and actively working on a fix.
• Due to a merge conflict some settings in Settings may be unexpectedly missing and / or missing their labels.
• When Narrator starts you will be presented with a dialog that informs the user of the change to Narrator’s keyboard layout. This dialog may not take focus or speak after Narrator has started. We recommend that you Alt + Tab to this dialog, which should cause it to read.
• The Settings for Keyboard Settings found in the Ease of Access center are missing text as well as visible values in the two combo boxes. Narrator users can interact with these controls and get some information pertaining to the settings that are available to them.
• When using scan mode you may experience multiple stops for a single control. An example of this is if you have an image that is also a link. This is something we are actively working on.
• If you change Narrator’s default Narrator key to just caps lock the Insert key will continue to function until the caps lock key is used as the Narrator key or if the user restarts Narrator.
• If the Narrator key is set to just Insert and you attempt to send a Narrator command from a braille display then these commands will not function. As long as the Caps Lock key is a part of the Narrator key mapping then braille functionality will work as designed.
• There is a known issue in automatic dialog reading where the title of the dialog is being spoken more than once.
• The state of a Narrator command such as toggling Scan Mode on and off, volume up and down, voice speed, changing verbosity and context verbosity commands may not be announced when executed.
• If you have previously performed a Find using Narrator’s Find feature and you bring up the dialog the text will not be cleared from the field.
• Please refer to the Narrator Keyboard Layout documentation for other issues found in this release that pertain to Narrator. (Intro to New Narrator Keyboard Layout doc).

 

To read more (as I didn't mention everything, just the cool stuff):
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/06/14/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-17692/#wPJCe9UrtOiogELF.97

[GoodBytes]

Oh the game stats, you can have it float in game.

All you need to do it pick the diagonal arrow on the title bar of the stats, and there you go, it floats. You can pick to show a background or not, exit GameMode bar and it floats there

[MoonlightSylv]

I'm running Windows 10 Home insider preview 17692 which is the latest afaik, and the sets feature (tabbed apps) doesn't appear as an option where it should. Other people with the same build are able to access it. Anything I can do?

[GoodBytes]

7 minutes ago, Sylvie05 said:

I'm running Windows 10 Home insider preview 17692 which is the latest afaik, and the sets feature (tabbed apps) doesn't appear as an option where it should. Other people with the same build are able to access it. Anything I can do?

 

- Merged with the Windows Insider Preview thread -

 

Not everyone has Sets. It is in A/B test phase so far. I doubt it will come out with Redstone 5 update coming up. I think it will be a feature for the following update. A lot of work needs to be done. But I guess you never know, they might magically be able to accelerate its development.

[MoonlightSylv]

Just now, GoodBytes said:

- Merged with the Windows Insider Preview thread -

 

Not everyone has Sets. It is in A/B test phase so far. I doubt it will come out with Redstone 5 update coming up. I think it will be a feature for the following update. A lot of work needs to be done. But I guess you never know, they might magically be able to accelerate its development.

Is there a way to manually activate it?

[MoonlightSylv]

28 minutes ago, gabrielcarvfer said:

Yes

 

 

Thank you! That worked.

[GoodBytes]

Here is something I noticed.

Fluent Design right-click menu!

 

Open the Task View / Timeline, and right-click!

 

You'll notice the right-click menu is now nice and sharp, and the background and highlight color has the nice acrylic design.

I also see it in the Action Center right-click menu (although harder to see) as well.

[GoodBytes]

Microsoft said that Sets is not ready, and won't make it to Redstone 5.

In fact, expect the feature removed in future Insider builds.

 

Microsoft said:

 

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Thank you for your continued support of testing Sets. We continue to receive valuable feedback from you as we develop this feature helping to ensure we deliver the best possible experience once it's ready for release.

Starting with this build, we're taking Sets offline to continue making it great. Based on your feedback, some of the things we're focusing on include improvements to the visual design and continuing to better integrate Office and Microsoft Edge into Sets to enhance workflow.

If you have been testing Sets, you will no longer see it as of today's build, however, Sets will return in a future WIP flight. Thanks again for your feedback.

Source: https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-confirms-windows-10-sets-wont-be-ready-redstone-5

[GoodBytes]

There is a new build for Fast Ring. Build 17704

• Removed Sets (as mentioned above)
• Lots of improvements to Edge
• New PDF file icon
• "Power usage" and "Power usage trend" column added to task manage to get an idea of process consuming how much power on a mobile system
  
   
• Sniping being deprecated and replaced with the new one note added to the old Snipping Tools

This build has lots of improvements:

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General changes, improvements, and fixes for PC

• If you have a Surface Studio, you should be able to update to Build 17698. Previously – Surface Studios were unable to update to Builds 17682, 17686, and 17692.
• We fixed an issue that could result in seeing a 0x80070057 error in Windows Update when upgrading to the last few flights.
• We fixed an issue from the last two flights resulting in the lock screen crashing in a loop when Picture Password was selected.
• We fixed an issue resulting in some Insiders experiencing a high volume of Start reliability issues in the last few flights.
• We fixed an issue where if you used WIN+A to open the Action Center you couldn’t immediately press Esc to close it.
• If clipboard history isn’t enabled, you can now enable it straight from WIN+V.
• Have multiple items in your clipboard history (WIN+V)? You can now start fresh in one shot by clicking the new clear all button.
• We fixed an issue resulting in noticeable lag when launching Task View on high DPI devices.
• We fixed an issue where Task View would still have a launch animation if “Show animations in Windows” was turned off.
• We fixed an issue where some cards in Timeline would appear with the text drawn twice, once normally, and a second time dimmer and with slightly different line spacing.
• We fixed an issue resulting Cortana crashing when attempting to edit reminders in the last few flights.
• We fixed an issue when using Cortana causing search results to sometimes not do anything when clicked in the last few flights.
• We fixed an issue where the People flyout was using the old Microsoft Store icon.
• We fixed an issue resulting in Credential Manager having white on white text when using Windows in dark theme.
• We fixed an issue where the string “Don’t use the index when searching…” in File Explorer’s Folder Options dialog had corrupted text.
• We’ve heard your feedback and are updating our sorting by size filters in File Explorer to be something a bit more modern. When you upgrade to this build you’ll find Tiny, Small, Medium, Large, Huge and Gigantic are now defined as 0 – 10KB, 16KB – 1MB, 1 MB to 128 MB, 128 MB – 1 GB, 1 GB – 4 GB, and > 4 GB, respectively.
• We’ve added some new keywords to help you get to the settings you’re looking for – for example “rename” will now find “View your PC name” (from which you can rename your PC). Please log feedback if there are any others that you’d like us to add!
• We fixed an issue resulting in Settings crashing when changing the default browser in the last flight.
• We fixed an issue where after a reboot, settings for Background Apps would revert to default.
• We fixed an issue where on demand features that were less than 1 MB (such as RSAT: IPAM Client) would fail to install.
• We fixed an issue where if your Bluetooth was turned off when upgrading to recent builds, the toggle for turning on/off Bluetooth wouldbe missing in the Settings page and the Bluetooth quick action button in the Action Center will not work. Note: this fix willprevent the issue from happening again, however if you are already impacted you will need to uninstall the radioadapter and re-enumerate it to get yourself back into a good state. You can do this by opening Device Manager, finding the radio adapter listed under Bluetooth, right-clicking and selecting Uninstall (make sure “delete the driver software for this device” is left unchecked), clicking Uninstall, then going to the Action menu and selecting “Scan for hardware changes”.
• We fixed an issue resulting in certain Bluetooth devices, like the NOAHLink, not connecting after upgrading.
• We fixed the bug that was impacting driver testing scenarios where executing HLK Component/Device driver tests might havecaused abugcheck that blocked test execution.
• We fixed the issue causing the Game bar to crash on x86 machines.
• To improve clarity, we’ve separated Settings > Privacy > Speech, Inking & typing into two settings: Settings > Privacy > Speech and Settings > Privacy > Inking & typing personalization.
• We fixed the issue that caused Settings > Ease of Access > Narrator, Choose Keyboard settings to be missing text as well as visible values in the two combo boxes.
• We added DTS:X to the list of spatial audio technologies you can use.
• We addressed a crash in the audio troubleshooter if querying the volume or mute state failed.
• We fixed an audio service issue that could cause some previously-recoverable hangs to become unrecoverable.
• We’ve updated Microsoft Edge so that even if a tab is not actively playing audio you will now be able to preemptively mute it from the context menu when right-clicking the tab.
• We fixed an issue for certain languages where when loading tabs in Microsoft Edge you may briefly see a formatting placeholder (%) in the tab name.
• We fixed an issue where drag events in Microsoft Edge (after moving a tab) could arrive out of order, leading to not being able to close that window.
• We fixed an issue where Microsoft Edge would exit full screen video mode if focus was set to an Outlook window on a secondary monitor.
• We fixed an off-by-one error when using the up arrow to go through your command history in Command Prompt in recent flights.
• Thanks everyone who shared feedback about the Microsoft Pinyin IME experience introduced with Build 17661. With today’s build the experience will be returning to the one that shipped with the April 2018 Update, while we take your feedback into consideration.
• We fixed an issue resulting in text being unexpectedly finalized when typing using the Japanese IME in Outlook 2016.
• We fixed an issue where when using the Emoji Panel in a win32 app the first letter of the search might get dropped.
• When using the touch keyboard you’ll find that the clipboard button is now always visible in the candidate pane. Tapping it will bring up your clipboard history for you to browse and paste from.
• Shapewriting on the touch keyboard is now available when using English (Australia)!
• We have fixed an issue where if you had previously performed a Find using Narrator’s Find feature and you brought up the dialog the text would not have been cleared from the field.
• We’ve updated Ease of Access flyout on the login screen so that Narrator now has an on / off toggle

 

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Known issues

• We’re working on adding dark theme in File Explorer and the Common File Dialog, but we still have some things to do. You may see some unexpectedly light colors in these surfaces when in dark mode and/or dark on dark text.
• When you upgrade to this build you’ll find that the taskbar flyouts (network, volume, etc) no longer have an acrylic background.
• We’re working on improving settings for HDR videos, games and apps in a new Windows HD Color page under System > Display. Some things temporarily will not work; notably, some users will not be able to enable/disable HDR display support.
• Applications that use ICC color profiles may encounter errors such as Access Denied. This includes the Color Management control panel, and color profile switching on certain Surface devices.
• When you use the Ease of Access > Make Text bigger setting, you may see text clipping issues, or find that text is not increasing in size everywhere. Also if your System > Display > Scaling and layout is not set to 100%, some text might appear unexpectedly tiny after reverting the “Make text bigger” value back to 0%.
• Windows Mixed Reality may get stuck after going to sleep and display a persistent error message in Mixed Reality Portal or a “Wake up” button that doesn’t work. To work around this, restart your computer or explorer.exe to use Windows Mixed Reality again.

 

Source: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/06/27/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-17704/#b5eQleLmtxhEyu4r.97

 

[GoodBytes]

This new build of Windows 10 includes a new version of Skype remade from the ground up (well the GUI), and it is very nice.

It seems they drop the platform of old, and went with a cross platform framework (still a UWP app, if you wonder), so that they have one version to maintain for Windows 7 and older, and Windows 10, and other platforms. That is just my guess as it looks awfully similar to Windows 7 desktopapp.

[AlTech]

3 hours ago, GoodBytes said:

This new build of Windows 10 includes a new version of Skype remade from the ground up (well the GUI), and it is very nice.

It seems they drop the platform of old, and went with a cross platform framework (still a UWP app, if you wonder), so that they have one version to maintain for Windows 7 and older, and Windows 10, and other platforms. That is just my guess as it looks awfully similar to Windows 7 desktopapp.

Got any screenshots?

[GoodBytes]

8 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

Got any screenshots?

Nha, private info I don't want to share, and removing everything will just give you a blank app.

You should get it through the Store if you are in Insider on Fast Ring in any case, you don't need this latest build specifically, or update to the latest build.

You can also join to the Skype Insider build without being part of the Insider Program if you go in the options (or was it About page) of the the old Skype, where you can join.

[AlTech]

11 hours ago, GoodBytes said:

This new build of Windows 10 includes a new version of Skype remade from the ground up (well the GUI), and it is very nice.

It seems they drop the platform of old, and went with a cross platform framework (still a UWP app, if you wonder), so that they have one version to maintain for Windows 7 and older, and Windows 10, and other platforms. That is just my guess as it looks awfully similar to Windows 7 desktopapp.

What do you mean cross-platform framework? Like an Electron app ported to UWP or something else?

[GoodBytes]

1 hour ago, AluminiumTech said:

What do you mean cross-platform framework? Like an Electron app ported to UWP or something else?

Yup. I am not sure which framework exactly being used. The app looks nearly the same (not exactly, just close, like the new Windows one is a bit better looking) as the version from OSX (just saw a picture).

 

This is a smart move especially if it becomes the same app on iOS and Android. Because CLEARLY the Skype team could not handle all these apps. So have only 1 to pay attention to, should really improve the quality of it, something that Skype desperately needs.

 

[AlTech]

47 minutes ago, gabrielcarvfer said:

Yup, that's totally it. 

Ouch. Can't wait to see how bad the performance hit is.

[AlTech]

8 minutes ago, gabrielcarvfer said:

And it will only get worse. Microsoft has been rewriting office to use it too. 

Wait, what............

 

Actually?

 

This is a bad joke.

[GoodBytes]

So my desktop upgraded to this latest build just fine.

But sadly my Surface Pro 3 isn't... It downloads, installs (in Windows Update section under Settings panel), then tell me it needs to restart to finish the installation (as always), and upon restart, immediately after the UEFI boots and starts the OS for install, I get a BSOD (yes BLUE screen not a green one), saying: WDF_VIOLATION. And then restarts the system and back to Windows 10 previous build (Build: 17692.1000) like if nothing happened, beside Windows Update showing a notification that it failed to update.

 

Tried multiple times.

 

Do you guys have this issue?

[GoodBytes]

13 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

Got any screenshots?

Here you go:

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-updating-its-skype-app-windows-10-new-design-and-more

 

 

SMS Relay is gone, if you wonder.

 

 

[AlTech]

Wow........ I totally didn't realize this was a thing ......

 

 

It seems so stupid that they'd charge money for it.

[GoodBytes]

26 minutes ago, gabrielcarvfer said:

Just used the new Skype in a conference and it's  terrible. Really confusing to use.

It's the same as before on my side....

Well not exactly, but close.... I mean you pick someone, Then hit create new Group (top right of the conversation) next to do a video/audio call buttons, select the people you want to add, and you are set. Before it was under the menu "..." which was at the same location of that new Group button, if I recall correctly

[GoodBytes]

1 hour ago, AluminiumTech said:

Wow........ I totally didn't realize this was a thing ......

It seems so stupid that they'd charge money for it.

I guess it is the license cost of the codec. It is 0.79 Pounds for you, it is 0.99$ US,

[GoodBytes]

21 minutes ago, gabrielcarvfer said:

But I've tried, the person missed the call, and I didn't get a notification/failed call/no option to retry. Later, tried calling again, his face appeared with a small phone, but nothing confirming how the call was going, etc. No idea how to check if someone is muted or speaking. The photo button doesn't make any sense. Theres a heart button that I have no idea why the hell is there. Guess they're trying to push people to use Hangouts.

Ah ok.