Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14986 for PC Insider

25fed9b50e... isn't in my Downloads folder, Andre. Did you find that before you restarted or after?

AndreTen said:

I know this was posted before. Just to add my data. I was put in slow ring, like some others... So just upgrade recently showed up.

Don't see any point in this UUP, upgrade downloaded 4.3 GB not much different than before...
Attachment 112842

Updates are in new location, and quite big too.
Attachment 112843

We also have to remember that this is the first iteration of the UUP, so it will be large this first time around. The next iteration should make it significantly smaller as that hidden partition already has a GB of files in it now.

Hopefully there will be an ISO available too and hopefully sooner then usual with update for Slow ring.

johngalt said:

We also have to remember that this is the first iteration of the UUP, so it will be large this first time around. The next iteration should make it significantly smaller as that hidden partition already has a GB of files in it now.

Added note on this being first time. Sure you all noticed that it seemed to hang on 0% download for quite a while. I checked Taskmanager. It was doing the Delivery Optimization Service. Tons of cpu and I/O. Guess it was trying to figure out just what parts it needed to download. After a few minutes, it took off. Just FYI...

fdegrove said:

In reality downloads are way much smaller than they appear to be.
By using an incredible amount of symlinks actual size is often less than 1/3 or less.

Cheers,

see my post # 71. This is fastest download I have experienced---on my desktop. Less than 20 minutes. But on laptop, it took over an hour. It seemed to download the entire install. Still, nothing I could catch to make an .iso from!

fdegrove said:

In reality downloads are way much smaller than they appear to be.
By using an incredible amount of symlinks actual size is often less than 1/3 or less.

Cheers,

Didn't you check the first picture? symlinks don't help much if they are downloaded. These were actual files.

True, it is the first time for UUP. We'll see how things evolve from here :)

Re-installed 14971 from Macrium image.

It picked up Build 14986. Above is screenshot after download but before install.