Windows 10 Insider Preview Fast Build 19541 - January 8 Insider

cereberus said:

Well loads of posts what has gone wrong but none to say "hey that new feature is cool". Oh sorry, I thought this was the Fast Ring.

I take it you are not enthralled with state-of-the-art Action Center Icon? Do you realize what they had to go thru to do that? They sacrificed a perfectly smooth background cross-fade slideshow to make room for the code!

Are you reporting this via the Feedback Hub?

jimbo45 said:

Hi there

I used UUPDUMP -- I think unless you have a specific need to test the standard update process then IMO the UUPDUMP method is best --beats also joining any insider program. Also if you have more than one machine to update you can use the same ISO on all of them.

Cheers
jimbo

jimbo, I feel that users interested in trying out insider builds should use Windows Update as the update procedure is part of the testing. MS need the info regarding failed or problematic updates.
Yes I've used UUP DUMP myself a few times over the years but not before trying Windows Update first.

Ztruker said:

Are you reporting this via the Feedback Hub?

There ya go!

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Ztruker said:

Are you reporting this via the Feedback Hub?

Up to now the only thing I could report about this build is that the new features are totally underwhelming

DooGie said:

Up to now the only thing I could report about this build is that the new features are totally underwhelming

Go upvote mine.

On this build VMware Workstation 15 Pro doesn't even start saying that:

And I am not using Defender and nothing of this is enabled.

jimbo45 said:

Hi there
@Josey Wales
absolutely !!! never been a member of insiders and got all these builds.

Also the good thing is that if you say want to revert back to a "Non Insider build" via restoring say a macrium image you won't be marked as being a member of the insider program so you can "Unjoin" at will.

@cereberus -- I think the USB "forwarding / redirection" or whatever it's called seems to work perfectly on this release when "Hot plugging" USB 3 devices from a HYPERVISOR -- certainly it works now when hotplugging USB devices from a KVM/QEMU HOST to this release as a Windows VM -- no need for any action in the VM config file or to attach it via the VM menu -- Device just appears as available in the Windows notification. I always had trouble with USB hotplugging using a HYPERVISOR whether a Windows one (HYPER-V) or a Linux one (QEMU/KVM).

General passthru also to this build on a VM's seems a lot better -- actually WORKS !!! including sound, video hardware capture device etc etc. Even Bridged networking does "what it says on the tin" with full bus speed between HOST and VM rather than at "Network speed".

This VM can also boot from physical USB devices from INSIDE the VM too. So improvements somewhere in the Windows kernel although I suppose a lot won't notice these two features.
This is actually quite a nice feature -- you can boot say a live linux USB distro from INSIDE your VM - useful for fixing Windows problems at times - without having to attach an iso and then boot that. You can also boot a Windows to Go USB from INSIDE the VM too - so some nice stuff to play with.


I never got this stuff working as well before on a Windows VM and I'm sure the Linux packages haven't changed much either so I must assume there's quite a lot changed in the Windows kernel - probably as I said invisible to most people.

Cheers
jimbo

Thanks Jiimbo

I'm going to boot to Ubuntu to grab UUPDUMP which is, as @jimbo45 the way to clean install or work with many instances of a build. You can tell it's a pretty minor update if WU goes as quickly as this one did. I suppose I'll eventuallly take a look at Task Manager but right now I want to go back to Linux as soon as my imaging is finished.