Windows 10 Insider Preview Dev Build 21286.1 (RS_PRERELEASE) - Jan. 6 Insider

Noah W said:

How would I enable the News and Interest button? I don't see an option even after using a "ViVe" tool. Looking through the reg keys I see this. Would I need to change something here to get this to work?

One thing, the rules say you need Edge installed, whether you like it or not.

Noah W said:

I won't. But I never got the meet now feature until last month and it was in A/B testing for a long time. I'm just worried I wont see this feature for a very long time.

I'll make a suggestion. Do if you want. It's harmless.

The ISO for this build is available (see top of page 1). DL it and run an In-place repair. Takes 30 mins or so, depending on your machine. That may tickle it to give you the feature. Nobody but MS knows what goofy A/B algorithms they are using.

Just a thought............

Winuser said:

Can you go back to a earlier build and try updating from there?

As you can see, I succeeded in installing the 21286.1 build, finally... (Post above your last.) Yes, I've been on a previous build the whole time up to now! b20270.1 --never had a moment's trouble there. Every time the newer builds would fail, 20270.1 would be automatically reinstalled--didn't have to restore it from a backup.

Thinking on this overnight, it's possible that some kind of bizarre bug had developed in 20270.1 that was causing these problems, despite using sfc and dism routines to correct any problems! I don't know what happened, precisely, that changed things simply because I installed the iso from my boot drive instead of another data drive--but apparently doing so fixed something that had gone awry in my 20270.1 installation (I guess it wasn't so "sweet" after all.)

One thing I noticed in 20270.1, too, was that suddenly my drive order beginning with drive 0 had reversed (In Computer Management/Disk Management)! Suddenly, my non-booting Sata3 data drives were enumerated first--one of the HDD's being drive 0 followed by the rest of the Hard drives--and the two NVMe drives were at the bottom as drive 6 and drive 7. Usually, my boot drive--1st NVMe slot--is drive 0. Did some light reading on it and apparently the consensus is that it doesn't particularly matter if Windows10 sees that order, and as the system was booting as usual from the NVMe boot drive, I didn't much think about it anymore.

But now that 21286.1 has installed, the drive order in Computer Management/Disk management has returned to normal. 1st NVME drive, boot drive, is now drive 0, followed by NVMe #2 as drive 1, followed by the remaining Sata 3 HD's in the system in the order of their port assignments. Go figure. So maybe the correct installation of 21286.1 has fixed the entirety of the problem I was having.

In five years+ of being an insider, this is the worst *bug* I've seen yet. But, I guess if I didn't like this sort of thing I wouldn't be an Insider, eh?...Whew...

I made an unfortunate (but interesting) error on 21270.1 - installing an AMD Driver and forgetting I now had a Nvidia graphics card installed. O well - I will install 21286 as a new installation. It's a New Year. Just a few more days in the States and we should be out of the dark woods.