Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20185.1000 (rs_prerelease) - August 5 Insider

jimbo45 said:

Hi there
Try downloading from UUPDUMP and then running the setup.exe from the created ISO. While this of course doesn't test the WU process it's still OK if you are just happy trying out the release (and BTW you don't have to be a member of insider rings or whatever they call them these days) either.

Cheers
jimbo

Hi Jimbo,

Thank you very much for the heads up on UUPDUMP. I am downloading now and will let you know if this makes the difference.

Regards,

I think it's high time we had the ability to customize the Volume OSD, position, size, color, buttons, etc...

... more important than icons!

Ztruker said:

Don't the games give you an option of where to install them? Most programs do and I would expect any decent game to also do so.

Even at 30GB per game you could install 20 games and that would only be 600GB, still leaving you 400GB for OS and personal files.

Yeah!. I suppose they give me the option as to where to install, but as with many other applications I usually let the default takes precedence. Next time, I will try to change or redirect the install to an external HDD and see what happens. For those already installed in Program Files (x86), I will just leave them there.

Thx mate for the suggestion.

CountMike said:

Most of applications and games even when installed on another disk/partition will also leave part on C:.

If they leave part on C:\, that part doesn't come close to the whole install being on C:\. As you can see, my concern is in the long run if I keep on installing them on the SSD, not only my free space will be shorten, but also my backups will take too long.

first time in a long time but have been getting GSOD with no error msg when browsing with the Dev Edge version

edjon2000uk said:

I understand what you are saying, however it depends on what you need, for example I have a lot of games from Steam(a few hundred) one of the advantages I have found is that you can create Steam Library folders anywhere you want, and when adding a new game you can pick which Steam Library folder you want to install your game to, additionally you also have the option to move an already downloaded and installed game between your Steam Library folders as you wish, by right-clicking on the installed game using the option Properties>Local Files>Move Install Folder to whichever Library folder you wish, in my case I have 4 internal hard drives, 2 are NVME SSD's and the other 2 are normal HDD's, for simplicity's sake, I have created 4 Steam Library folders, 1 per hard drive, and they are all installed as folders in the root of the hard drives using names like Steam Library-(my hard drive letter), depending on the game I have my most frequently played games on my NVME SSD drives, the older less demanding games on my standard hard drives, I also use a number of other installer/launchers like Epic Game Launcher, GoG, Origin etc but moving games around in those is slightly more complicated but still possible, a lot of these games will install configuration data in your C: My Documents folder either, under their name in the root of My Documents, or in a folder called My Games under their name in sub folders, I hope this helps.

All of these games that I have played seem to be running fine under the current Windows insider build(just to bring things slightly more back on topic )

Very, very good info. The thing is I am new to this PC Games' world. Right now I am only using GOG Galaxy Client and have no clue what "Stream" is. I know I can browse for it on the web, but a reference (link) from you would be faster. After that, I promise to go

edjon2000uk said:

Absolutely no problem IronZorg89 Welcome to Steam from there you install the Steam Client and pretty much follow the instructions.

All of the questions you probably have are answered on the Steam Web Site, please don't worry I was exactly in the same position as you a few years ago

Thx,