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Caledon Ken said:

Good day everyone.


Woke up to a layer of heavy, wet snow. As it is supposed to be around 8C on Saturday I'll wait for this mess to melt.


Yesterday I clean installed Windows on that second Dell. Fingers crossed the sound issues are a thing of the past.

Afternoon Ken. Hope you'll get some spring weather soon.

And good luck with that Dell

COMPUTIAC said:

Mornin' Gents,
Its 39 cloudy, sun should be out for the weekend.
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Afternoon Bob. We're getting the first heat wave this weekend.. Well, not really heat, but very warm

Good evening Andre.

The Dell should be good with the clean install. They reported the last time we talked that more people are reporting the same issue. A clean install will be challenging especially as there is no lan port and the wireless drivers are not loaded by Windows. You need to get drivers from Dell and use the oobe bypass to just to get into windows to install.

AndreTen said:

Afternoon Bree. Installed fine for me, but no time to poke around

Evening Andre.

All installed fine for me too, but I have multiple machines to work through. I currently have the Dev and Canary builds installed as native boot vhdx on three machines - ranging, in descending order of speed, from a supported Pentium Silver N5030, a 1st gen i5, down to a Celeron N2930.

Intel Pentium Silver N5030 @ 1.10GHz vs Intel Core i5-520M @ 2.40GHz vs Intel Celeron N2930 @ 1.83GHz [cpubenchmark.net] by PassMark Software

Historically I started with Insider builds on the Celeron machine two years ago, it was the only 2-in-1 device I had at the time and I wanted to try out the newly introduced Tablet Optimised Taskbar.

Bree said:

I had put a vhdx of 22593 on a little 2-in-1 convertible Lenovo Yoga 11e so that I could play with test the tablet optimised taskbar. When Windows Update offered the 22598 build I let it install, just to see what would happen. What happened was a completely normal and successful feature update....

KB5014105 Windows 11 22H2 Insider Dev and Beta Build 22598.200 (ni_release) - April 19 | Page 3 | Windows 11 Forum - post #51

When I discovered that Windows 11 can do Feature Updates on a native boot vhdx I started using it for the other Insider channels too. For a long time that was my only machine running the Insider builds, but of late the Canary/Dev builds are taking an increasingly long time to install, 5 hours is typical these days. Also, it was becoming hard work bypassing the hardware checks. MS have disabled a lot of the old workarounds.

So I moved my Dev/Canary builds to the supported laptop (a newer 2-in-1 device) after I had treated it to a larger SSD. I also copied the Dev/Canary builds to the i5 machine (which also now has a larger SSD) so I could continue testing 24H2 on unsupported hardware. So for now I have three Insider machines, but it's only temporary. As soon as I'm happy with the moves, I will be removing Dev and Canary from the original and slowest one.

Bree said:

Evening Andre.

All installed fine for me too, but I have multiple machines to work through. I currently have the Dev and Canary builds installed as native boot vhdx on three machines - ranging, in descending order of speed, from a supported Pentium Silver N5030, a 1st gen i5, down to a Celeron N2930.

Intel Pentium Silver N5030 @ 1.10GHz vs Intel Core i5-520M @ 2.40GHz vs Intel Celeron N2930 @ 1.83GHz [cpubenchmark.net] by PassMark Software

Historically I started with Insider builds on the Celeron machine two years ago, it was the only 2-in-1 device I had at the time and I wanted to try out the newly introduced Tablet Optimised Taskbar.

KB5014105 Windows 11 22H2 Insider Dev and Beta Build 22598.200 (ni_release) - April 19 | Page 3 | Windows 11 Forum - post #51

When I discovered that Windows 11 can do Feature Updates on a native boot vhdx I started using it for the other Insider channels too. For a long time that was my only machine running the Insider builds, but of late the Canary/Dev builds are taking an increasingly long time to install, 5 hours is typical these days. Also, it was becoming hard work bypassing the hardware checks. MS have disabled a lot of the old workarounds.

So I moved my Dev/Canary builds to the supported laptop (a newer 2-in-1 device) after I had treated it to a larger SSD. I also copied the Dev/Canary builds to the i5 machine (which also now has a larger SSD) so I could continue testing 24H2 on unsupported hardware. So for now I have three Insider machines, but it's only temporary. As soon as I'm happy with the moves, I will be removing Dev and Canary from the original and slowest one.

You need to round it all out with Win95 on a Raspberry. Life will be complete.

f14tomcat said:

You need to round it all out with Win95 on a Raspberry. Life will be complete.

Evening TC.

Who needs a Raspberry when you've got VirtualBox - networked and everything

Good day everyone.


Hard to believe I'm first on here today.


Overcast and a little more snow, still nothing to shovel.


The north eastern states are getting hit hard, feet of snow. According to news, hundreds of thousands without power. Hope everyone is okay.

Good Morning Folks.

Morning Josey.


Quiet in here today.


First day of school so I'm out too.

Good morning / afternoon folks.

In the low 40's, wind chills in the upper 30's, rain & snow for today, but nothing is supposed to stick.