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

Brink said:

Ok. It's back.

Much better! We old fogies don't like drastic changes!

DooGie said:

I still like Brink's avatar just after his birth.

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Awwwwwwww . . . How cute.

What a useful addition Screen Snip is in Action Centre.

Did anybody solve sfc /scannow riddle diddle ?? Mine is still throwing errors.
Another thing, when I try updating WD from WU, I get this:

Download does nothing, just blinks. Updating WD from itself works fine.


EDIT.
sfc /scannow just showed good

Enable or Disable Passwordless Sign-in for Microsoft Accounts

Looks like no new build this week. Can we get a confirmation?

martyfelker said:

Looks like no new build this week. Can we get a confirmation?

Only if Microsoft's looking in here. So far, I haven't seen anything from 'em.

I had to change an HDD on my IP that got Build 18950 but couldn't get Build 18956. Got to exploring and the clean install was resetting my IP to Slow ring using my Microsoft Account. I reset to Fast Ring but didn't take, reset to Fast Ring again and rebooted, got the Build 18956 right away. Another thing to keep an eye on in Windows Insider Program in Settings.

Berton said:

I had to change an HDD on my IP that got Build 18950 but couldn't get Build 18956. Got to exploring and the clean install was resetting my IP to Slow ring using my Microsoft Account. I reset to Fast Ring but didn't take, reset to Fast Ring again and rebooted, got the Build 18956 right away. Another thing to keep an eye on in Windows Insider Program in Settings.

That's been going on for quite some time, Berton. Everytime I do a clean install, Windows Update gets set to the slow ring and I have to manually change it back to fast ring.

At the moment, I'm on "Fast/Skippy" and can't afford a clean install until Skip Ahead is officially offered again or I'll lose my Skippy status.

Wynona said:

That's been going on for quite some time, Berton. Everytime I do a clean install, Windows Update gets set to the slow ring and I have to manually change it back to fast ring.
At the moment, I'm on "Fast/Skippy" and can't afford a clean install until Skip Ahead is officially offered again or I'll lose my Skippy status.

Thanks, it's the first time it has happened to me since joining back in the Technical Preview [later became Insider Preview] but it's the first time I did a clean reinstall.

I did do a couple of Resets on that machine, this episode started showing I had a possibly bad drive. At the second time I decided to put a newer used drive back in service and all is good.

As an aside I've started cleaning 'house', just dumped all the 512MB and smaller memory modules and under 200GB drives will go out tomorrow.