New Windows 10 Preview build 9879 available

Graulges said:

Seemed slower to download and definitely longer to install than the last preview on Inspiron 1525 with 2 Meg connection

I think the slow download is just due to traffic. I don't remember how long it took for 9860 but this new build took me 25mins (download and install).

As for changes, not much for physical change. Mostly tweaking and bug fixing.

I started the download earlier and it's still downloading, can't see any action on the download button to see how far it's gone.

Joan Archer said:

I started the download earlier and it's still downloading, can't see any action on the download button to see how far it's gone.

The way I have been monitoring it is by checking task manager

Open it up a switch to the app history tab, then click on the network column to sort by this
Then if you watch 'Host Process for Windows Services' you will see this keep growing in size

Not sure on size this time, but last download this went upto about 4GB before it was done

Here's the size of the ISO I created last night:


It came out to about 3.79GB.

Thanks for the size, currently downloaded about 2GB of it

Looks like it is going to take around 12 hours to get it done

paulsalter said:

Thanks for the size, currently downloaded about 2GB of it

Looks like it is going to take around 12 hours to get it done

No problem. Sorry that it's going to take that long.
Jeff

BunnyJ said:

Here's the size of the ISO I created last night:


It came out to about 3.79GB.

Did you clean install it?

I was thinking about doing it because I am expecting some problems with the update, but so far I don't see any reason to do a clean install.

With such large size it must have replaced darn near everything..

HippsieGypsie said:

... and uninstall the Bing Search engine.
...

In addition to removing Bing engine, remember that you can totally remove all Modern Apps you do not like and use with PowerShell. As you know simply uninstalling a Modern App quite often does nothing else but simply removes the app from Start, leaving it on hard disk ready to be "re-installed", added to Start again.

Just uninstall the apps you do not need, then open the PowerShell or PowerShell ISE and give this command:

Code:

Get-AppxPackage | Out-GridView -PassThru | Remove-AppxPackage

The command explained:
Get-Appxpackage (AppxPackage = App) lists all Modern Apps on your hard disk, the pipe ('|') symbol then "pipes" (sends) the output to cmdlet Out-GridView to be presented in table which passes the user selection through (switch -PassThru), piping it to cmdlet Remove-Appxpackage:

Select your uninstalled apps you'd like to remove completely if they are still shown after you uninstalled them, click OK and you are done (in above example screenshot I removed an app from a Finnish newspaper which does not work, and Bing Health).

You can now check that they are really gone by giving the "list all apps" cmdlet piping it to grid tabel with this command:

Code:

Get-AppxPackage | Out-GridView