New Windows 10 Insider Preview Fast + Skip Build 18290 (19H1) -Nov. 28 Insider

CountMike said:

It certainly is certain that it's one of those certain but can't be certain that that's the certain reason.

Hi folks

I thonk the saying goes :

Known knowns
Known unknowns
unknown unknowns
unknown knowns

take your pick

I prefer "The Ghost in the Machine". !!

have a good weekend everyone

serious drinking time this weekend -- Novemember -- the most horrible month of the year is over -- at least here so MEGA Party time folks.

Cheers
jimbo

I have decided to try this build but wondered if anyone uses the preview builds as their main operating system, or are people dual booting?

CountMike said:

I've been using insider builds as main OS since the beginning (it's Skippy) as there was nothing that would cripple the system into unusable stage. For a while I used W7 as a "spare " system with dual BOOT to it but that doesn't work with my new HW so I had to drop it, Now it's regular version as spare system. It's all at defaults though and I drop to it only for updates. I also have good old standby Linux Mint but for other reasons.
For a while, I had W7 + W8/8.1 on another computer but even that one is only W10 in Fast ring. Don't use that one much though. Despite some annoyances, Skippy works fine as main system, for me at least. Only caveat is that some programs may have troubles adjusting to some Skippy and fast changes but that usually get's fixed after a build or two.

Thanks for your prompt reply. Is there a way to do a fresh install with the latest insider build or do you always have to update through Windows Update?

Hi folks
As I don't do a huge amount with Windows these days I'm quite happy to have a spare computer running the skippy as its main OS (I always take images so reverting back isn't a problem).

Rarely unlike a lot of other people have I encountered any serious problems with running these builds apart from some odd minor defects such as language menus operating in a mixture of languages when you add another display language.

However on this latest one - VMWARE causes a problem (GSOD) when you try and start a Guest OS. VMWare is a must have program for me currently so I've restored back to a previous version until feedback from Ms/Vmware confirms the defect is fixed.

This is one time where you actually need to run the OS on a real machine rather than in a virtual machine -- having nested levels of VM's (i.e a VM within a VM) gives pretty poor performance - especially using a laptop. !!

I wouldn't though if you are working for a client on a freelance contract etc use these builds for that type of work -- if you run into problems - could cause you loss of money if you can't finish your assignments in time. !!

Cheers
jimbo

I've been procrastinating updating...,
wonder what happens if I let this slide...



and,
keeps telling me it's going to update at a certain time but never does...