Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15019 for PC Insider

I use AOEMI Backupper and it works great. I bought the Pro edition in part because I want to support the company but the free Standard edition works perfectly.

I even did a full disk backup (including all 3 operating systems) and it restored my 256GB Samsung SSD without error and quickly.

Dunno about you guys, however, Win 10 most certainly has many more services (services.msc) present with many more running....much more than earlier versions of Win 10 as well as Win 7 & Win 8.1. Even looks like some are even redundant.

Another great, easy to use clone/backup/system xfer/etc. program is EaseUS To Do Backup. They have a completely free edition that does all that most need and others that cost as little as $24.00.

Tim

P.S. I am currently making a complete ISO for this release (15019).

Oh, oh. the issue with games suddenly reappeared again when I tried to play World of Warcraft. Now everything is OFF in the gaming section of the settings and I have shut down and rebooted several times. No luck. The game screen locks up without any mouse interaction. When I alt-tab out then back in, eventually the screen I SHOULD see will flicker into existence for a split second then disappear. This is the result I get when holding the alt-tab buttons.
Turns out that it is the dreaded Windowed mode issue popping up again. There may be a NVidia driver issue with the latest build. Until it is resolved, I will have to play in windowed mode.
If you have issues with games and have a NVidia card, Windowed mode can be added to a game in the GeForce Experience game settings...

A 20 year old Windows issue, fixable with simple change in code, yet it is still there.

Windows 95 introduced Taskbar as we know it today, since Windows 98 it has been possible to move it to left, top, right if the default location at bottom is not what you want to.

I don't like it bottom, I always have Taskbar vertical at left to give me clearer view of what I have open in Taskbar, full size Quick Launch and System tray, full day and date, and more vertical space for browsers and apps.

I understand that some third party software makers do not cope with this, like following two examples. First one shows where my VoIP softphone opens its small context menu when right clicked in System Tray, the latter shows how Screenpresso, my screenshot tool opens its context menu on another display:

But Microsoft's own, native Windows tools and apps, that I cannot understand. Here's where and how PowerShell opens by default:

The same with Windows Media Player and several other native Windows tools and apps, even Edge which normally opens OK clearly detecting Taskbar but when I exit full screen YouTube or other video stream Edge goes real "full screen" hiding its left part behind the Taskbar.

I know, this is a minor, trivial issue and does not affect majority of users. Yet I must wonder, an issue that could be fixed with a tiny change in code is still there, 20 years after it was first reported.

Kari

Kari said:

A 20 year old Windows issue, fixable with simple change in code, yet it is still there.

Windows 95 introduced Taskbar as we know it today, since Windows 98 it has been possible to move it to left, top, right if the default location at bottom is not what you want to.

I don't like it bottom, I always have Taskbar vertical at left to give me clearer view of what I have open in Taskbar, full size Quick Launch and System tray, full day and date, and more vertical space for browsers and apps.

I understand that some third party software makers do not cope with this, like following two examples. First one shows where my VoIP softphone opens its small context menu when right clicked in System Tray, the latter shows how Screenpresso, my screenshot tool opens its context menu on another display:

But Microsoft's own, native Windows tools and apps, that I cannot understand. Here's where and how PowerShell opens by default:

The same with Windows Media Player and several other native Windows tools and apps, even Edge which normally opens OK clearly detecting Taskbar but when I exit full screen YouTube or other video stream Edge goes real "full screen" hiding its left part behind the Taskbar.

I know, this is a minor, trivial issue and does not affect majority of users. Yet I must wonder, an issue that could be fixed with a tiny change in code is still there, 20 years after it was first reported.

Kari

I used to like my taskbar at the top @Kari, but on Windows 10 gave up, because stuff(3rd party & native) would open behind it ALL the time, and training the program, to open a bit lower didn't help either.
Nothing nerves more when the minimize/close/restore down are tucked behind the taskbar,

1. so you first need to unlock it...
2. then move it...
3. adjust/move the opened window....
4. place taskbar back...
5. relock taskbar.

And that I prefer to have my Desktop Toolbar with the recycle bin sticking out on the left as close to the Windows icon as possible, moving the taskbar around would also jumble my toolbar setup too.

Cliff S said:

I used to like my taskbar at the top but on Windows 10 gave up, because stuff(3rd party & native) would open behind it ALL the time, and training the program, to open a bit lower didn't help either.

I am so used to having about 200 pixels wide taskbar on left, like it so much that I have accepted the fact that after every upgrade or clean install I have some app positions to fix.

I am just wondering that after 20 years they still haven't fixed this.