New Windows 10 Insider Preview Fast+Skip Build 18950 (20H1) - July 31 Insider

LEOPEVA64 said:

Microsoft changed something in the upgrade process, I always use the ISO (in place upgrade) and normally there are three reboots, this time, in my case, there was only one reboot.

1 at the end of the setup.exe, and 2 in the "working on updates". You only got 1 in the complete process?

LEOPEVA64 said:

Correct, only this one:
"1 at the end of the setup.exe."
After that there were no reboots.

I have 2 VMs to do with ISO. I'll keep an eye on that. Never seen that before. Using WU, I got the 2 reboots in Working on Updates phase. Interesting. Thanks,

LEOPEVA64 said:

Microsoft changed something in the upgrade process, I always use the ISO (in place upgrade) and normally there are three reboots, this time, in my case, there was only one reboot.

f14tomcat said:

1 at the end of the setup.exe, and 2 in the "working on updates". You only got 1 in the complete process?

LEOPEVA64 said:

Correct, only this one:
"1 at the end of the setup.exe."

As I mentioned on page 1, I decided to try WU. Daresay, my clean install mus have fixed more than what issues I was experiencing, because it installed without a hitch.

First of all, it got to 7% DLing, and seemed to hang there for a long while (5+ minutes). Then all of a sudden I got to 8% - and one minute later I look and it's at 82%.

Second, after downloading, it did the installing phase - that took about 30 minutes, total, until Windows threw up the warning that it needed to reboot.

Third, after the reboot an letting it sit there for a couple of hours while I was out, I came back, logged in and all is ready - I did not get the Windows Welcome screen, nor the "Please wait, we're setting things up" screen - nothing- it went straight to DT.

If future builds are going to be this easy via WU, I'll gladly start using it again.

Only thing I got after logging in was a notification in action center about RealTek Audio Console (for UAD drivers) being installed - but it was the same version as before. Oh, and Action center was full height again - so I had to re-add the reg key for the Lite version of the Action center

Other than that all is well, thus far.

And I now have the setting to show or hide the Welcome screen occasionally.

LEOPEVA64 said:

Correct, only this one:
"1 at the end of the setup.exe."
After that there were no reboots.

Ok, here's what I got.

1) Ran thru the setup.exe normally and rebooted. Did the Configuring work before actual restart, like normal.
2) Came up to "Working on Updates - 0%" and sat there for a few seconds, popped straight to 69%, and Re-booted.
3) Came back up at 79%. Ran a minute or 2. Updated and loaded the GPU driver (screen change made that obvious).
4) Ran quickly then to 83%, and then normal pace thru to 100% and all the "Hi!" stuff and desktop.

So, I got 1 reboot at end of setup.exe, and 1 reboot just a few seconds into phase 2. May have been that real quickie you may have missed.

Note: this was a VM, so the second reboot in the second part, what MS refers to as the Safe-Boot-Phase, did not occur because this was a Guest, not the Host. That reboot would occur late in the second phase around 87%. This is the reboot that was causing 18936 and 18941 to croak for some users. It always worked on my VMs, but those 2 builds died on the physical OS.

Straight forward update, completed in 30 minutes.

meebers said:

It did that to me on the last one. Had to check for updates again and then it was ok

Meebers, I did a second download Like u said u did and all is well.