Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 10158 for PCs Insider

Winuser said:

I don't think you can. You have to sign in to your MSA to stay in the Insider Program.

simrick said:

That is correct.

May I state my differing opinion?

As I mentioned earlier, I have two machines, a real physical one and a Hyper-V vm on it, which were both first clean installed with 9879 using a local account. No other accounts have ever been created on those two machines, although of course I needed an MS account to start with, to download the ESD and create 9879 ISO on another machine, but since that both machines have only had a local account, both have always been set to fast ring after an upgrade, and both have been automatically upgraded through Windows Update with every build up to 10130. Have not yet tested the 10158 upgrade.

You don't have to be an Insider to be on the fast ring, you don't have to be an insider to upgrade. That might change after July 29th but at the moment being an insider is not obligatory. Today you can even download ISO images from Microsoft (10130 at the moment) without ever giving an email, not to mention an MS account.

The above is not valid. See this post.

Anyway, for me it's no sleep today :). It's 5:25 AM here and I just finished the first Sysprep tests, customizing the image in Audit Mode. The build 9860 was the last one where Sysprep worked perfectly, since that it's been this answer file component or that feature not working, forcing me to use absurd and comical workarounds.

But now everything Sysprep / Audit Mode related seems to work perfectly! Have to start editing my tutorials which at the moment include more warnings and workarounds than factual info :).

A happy camper here!

In Build 10158 and using the Personalize (Classic) > Color and Appearance desk top menus the Color Intensity, Hue, Saturation & Brightness sliders no longer have any effect of changing Tile Color or Log In Screen Color.

As it is difficult to admit you are wrong, I need to tell this as a story about someone else:

This geek, I do not reveal his name, let's call him Firi Kann, posted on a tech site that he had installed build 9879 with a local account and then using this account only upgraded the computer and a virtual machine on it through every build through Windows Update Fast Ring.

He started to doubt his own words and fired up this PC, and when on desktop also the Hyper-V vm on it. This PC and its vm had been setup only for the purpose to see if upgrades work, and had never been used to anything else. Booted about once a week, let run an hour or so to get the updates and that's it. Upgrade test has worked, both machines always automatically upgraded to next build.

Mr. Firi Kann had completely forgotten that both machines, the real and the vm, had originally been installed using an MS account, then on both machines he had also created a local admin account without password so Windows always booted automatically to the desktop of this local account. As it is, he had to find a way to admit he was wrong, and not finding any suitable way to do that he decided to write a short story, blaiming someone else :).

If requested I will provide a mailing address for the Darwin Award.

Kari said:

As it is difficult to admit you are wrong, I need to tell this as a story about someone else:



If requested I will provide a mailing address for the Darwin Award.

ROFL KARI! You're so funny.......looks like both of us will not be getting any sleep tonight.

"Creating ISO File...Writing 963 files to 101 directories to en_windows_10_pro_10158_x86_dvd.iso....100% complete"