New Windows 10 Insider Preview Fast and Skip Ahead Build 17666 - May 9 Insider

It is over... It took 52 minutes 'till reboot (4 reboots) and another 13 minutes 'till Desktop.

... And with this build I start having problem with my QT Tab Desktop Tool with this in my Taskbar and the following error log:

2018/05/09 18:06:07.7233
OS ver: 10.0.17666.0
QT ver: 1038.0
System.InvalidOperationException: Visual Styles-related operation resulted in an error because visual styles are currently disabled in the client area.
at System.Windows.Forms.VisualStyles.VisualStyleRenderer.IsCombinationDefined(String className, Int32 part)
at System.Windows.Forms.VisualStyles.VisualStyleRenderer..ctor(String className, Int32 part, Int32 state)
at QTTabBarLib.QTDesktopTool.OnPaintBackground(PaintEventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.PaintWithErrorHandling(PaintEventArgs e, Int16 layer)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmEraseBkgnd(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at QTTabBarLib.QTDesktopTool.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
Optional information : ThreadException, tid:0x0000091C
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Cliff S said:

Oh HELL!
No really I mean hell... really(17666)

Eeeeeeek!

Edwin said:

Yup!

Open QTTabBar Options and look at the mess!

It is a mess.

Superfly said:

This is something I'm keen on getting opinions on... I was under the impression dark themes was the way to go (Office put it in theirs as well) ...but as long as there are options, that's the main thing, right?

Superfly, I have eye problems and dark themes don't work for me. Both @Cliff S and @Edwin tried to help me with dark themes, but so far, I can only live with the "white" one.

I just had some surgery this morning, so we'll see what shakes out when I'm up to par again. I should be able to see better, since my eyelids will no longer be at half-mast (covering half of my pupils)!

I'm letting this one download and (hopefully) install by itself; just reading posts until I have to stop.

magilla said:

@bordi, I think some people see better with dark background and white foreground lettering. Its not good for me, but might be good for some people. I recall someone writing that the white background created a glare for them. So, for them its good to have dark background. We're all different in our likes, needs.

And this is an issue that Microsoft has refused to address for those of us who aren't able to clearly see the very light gray font! As long as I've been beta testing for Microsoft, many of us have begged Microsoft to give us back a pure black font, but so far, no luck.