New Windows 10 Insider Preview Fast+Skip Build 18956 (20H1) - August 7 Insider

Hi folks

VMWARE Bridged networking seems now to be fixed with both this release and the standard release in Windows Workstation edition -- works for GUEST VM's now of "any flavour" -- not sure what the problem was but there were a couple of minor WU updtaes - something about "Intelligence feature ??" or whatever --totally don't know what it was but it seems to have fixed the problem.

Even Language issues fixed !!!!- not being able to run VM's in Bridged mode would have been a showstopper.

Anyway here's a linux VM running in Bridged mode with a 5.28 kernel on a Workstations pro Host.
This is on standard build as I have to do a couple of things on this computerfirst before messing around with the 20H1 build later but it's identical to the 20H1 build with the identical VM running on it on identical hardware.

Great start for a Monday morning when things ACTUALLY WORK !!!!! normally Mondays one expects trouble !! especially Monday mornings.



Languge issue fixed for example now settings etc is completely in isl -- not a hodgepodge mixture. This is on this build (the 20H1).





Cheers
jimbo

Interesting changes in Explorer.

Suddenly, navigation pane is gone, and a drive BOOT is shown with a drive letter. It is not shown in Disk Management. Removing its drive letter with DISKPART works, but in about two to five minutes, it's back and I get a notification telling "Select what to do with removable drives".



Kari

weird it seems to be affecting everyone differently....I have none of these problems.
Everything looks good on mine .
Windows Update

jimbo45 said:

Try pressing CTRL+F1 and that often fixes the top line things.

CTRL + 1 toggles ribbon on / off. I have no issues with ribbon, I want to have it always on. I just want the navigation back, and not to show that BOOT drive.

Kari

smactilactus said:

Exactly! Now if only we could get M$ to get this. I'll put some feedback in the hub.

Thanks for everybodies comments.

Can you post back the link. I'd like to upvote it.

jimbo45 said:

Hi there
it's not only that - but also several windows media players (including VLC) are unable to play the media files with these truncated names etc --thats the main issue here.

Remote TV's / Amazon firesticks / mobile phones etc etc have no problem accessing and playing these.

Cheers
jimbo

Okay got the full picture now. Makes you wonder why that has been overlooked/ignored since all the others mentioned came after windows.

Weird. The desktop corruption resolved "by itself" when I booted to Windows this AM. I bow to the Windows Insider gods.