New Windows 10 Insider Preview Fast+Skip Build 18941 (20H1) - July 18 Insider

Microsoft mistakenly released Windows 10 build 18947 to all Insiders

emilcioran99 said:

What the hell is with M$?!

Nothing special, just being MS !!

CountMike said:

I looked at ME for over a year until I could afford computer compatible with XP. It worked fine.

Not me - I had enough friends out in the real world who tried it and told me just how badly it sucked. I stuck with 98SE.

slicendice said:

I tried ME for a week, but it was so unstable that I switched back to 98SE. ME was very fast, but I could not live with the instability. Later I started to use 2000, while rock solid, it was very slow for gaming. For everything else it was perfect.

In the end I triplebooted 98SE, 2000 and Linux, where I mostly gamed on Linux and 98SE. Linux was insanely fast for gaming on my dual CPU system.

I can see that. I didn't seriously start playing with *nix until ~2000, when I had Win2k installed. on a Pentium 200 MHz machine. It was FC2 - and while it didn't take 1:35 to boot, it still took well over 30. Until I figured out how to compile my own kernel and not worry about loading modules on demand, baking the ones i needed directly into the kernel. Then I got it down stupidly fast on boot - under 20 seconds. And all those times were including POST from cold boot.

I never really gamed on Linux, though, preferring to keep Windows around because all the games I already had (and would buy in the future) were all windows based.

CountMike said:

I had only AMD K6 155 at that time, couldn't run NT 2000 or XP, only when I switched to first Athlon 64 that I could switch to XP.

lol I can see how that might cause an issue. Similar to me forcing Vista Beta to run on a P4 (Northwood) that I was OCing....

Getting the drivers for the MSI mobo I was using at the time to work in Vista was the biggest PITA I ever experienced. And it was what eventually led me to skip Vista altogether as a daily driver OS.

MS’s early mistaken release attempted to install on my slow ring — grrrrrrr.

Well, let's liven things up a bit - I've been having issues with my desktop on 18941 - specifically, if I leave the computer for a bit, the screen goes dark, like it is supposed to - but unlike previous builds where I simply hit [CTRL] + [ALT] + [DELTE] and then login in with my PIN (I have CAD for logins enabled for my account - for all my accounts, actually) the damned thing acts like it starts doing something, and then reboots. Got the event log entries to prove this build is fracking with me.

However, I've also installed a brand new printer (Brother MFC with al the bells and whistles, in terms of the software) *and*I'm a part of a closed ẞeta test of certain software, so that was installed just a couple of days ago. I thought it might be one or the other, but haven't really had the time to explore, and thus haven't made a report yet.

Then, this evening, I log in and see this:



0_o

Are they spying on me?



(Of course they're not, it probably has to do with one of me recent reports about other issues - but still, it was hilariously timed!

Not me - I had enough friends out in the real world who tried it and told me just how badly it sucked. I stuck with 98SE.



I can see that. I didn't seriously start playing with *nix until ~2000, when I had Win2k installed. on a Pentium 200 MHz machine. It was FC2 - and while it didn't take 1:35 to boot, it still took well over 30. Until I figured out how to compile my own kernel and not worry about loading modules on demand, baking the ones i needed directly into the kernel. Then I got it down stupidly fast on boot - under 20 seconds. And all those times were including POST from cold boot.

I never really gamed on Linux, though, preferring to keep Windows around because all the games I already had (and would buy in the future) were all windows based.



lol I can see how that might cause an issue. Similar to me forcing Vista Beta to run on a P4 (Northwood) that I was OCing....

Getting the drivers for the MSI mobo I was using at the time to work in Vista was the biggest PITA I ever experienced. And it was what eventually led me to skip Vista altogether as a daily driver OS.

I guess I started playing with Linux about the time that Win 95 with Red Hat Linux and later SUSE Linux 9 both of which I bought in boxed sets (which I still have). I loaded Windows 95 onto a 386 machine with a 2GB HD which cost nearly a thousand bucks. Not an experience I'd like to repeat (well over a dozen 5 1/4" floppies). At work I was dealing with computers running Windows 3.1 on Novell Netware but accessing the network a few times from home using OS/2 . I bought some Stardock shareware which was only for OS/2 originally. Right now my machine is in the shop as a third close lightning strike took out both my UPS and the motherboard. I'm going to get a Gigabyte Ultra Durable this time. I sure hope the CPU wasn't damaged Very unlikely because I actually was able to boot into Windows once or twice after the strike but had no mouse or keyboard (!!. So I'll miss the next update but if it looks interesting I might ask my wife if I can use UUPDUMP on her machine which is what I'm using at the moment.

Windows 95 Upgrade was around that many floppies (13, plus a disk or 2 of utilities offered by some OEMs). Windows 95 full was 21 floppies. I know because I have them right here....

Having just moved into a new home, I found them when unpacking last month....

johngalt said:

Windows 95 Upgrade was around that many floppies (13, plus a disk or 2 of utilities offered by some OEMs). Windows 95 full was 21 floppies. I know because I have them right here....

Having just moved into a new home, I found them when unpacking last month....

I got my 95 on a CD. 3.11 was last one I got on floppies and still have them although i made an ISO from them too.

thewizardoz said:

What is this please Shawn?

[Internal – Corpnet Required] Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version Next (10.0.18941.1005) amd64

I've never heard of such a build type.

Thanks mate.

I'm not sure either. I haven't seen a new 18941.1005 build drop for Fast ring yet.